Posted on 12/08/2013 10:01:31 PM PST by servo1969
Coming soon to a classroom near you… nazi jew homework
A new Common Core writing assignment asks students to think like a Nazi and explain why Jews are evil. This story first broke back in April:
The Times Union reported, via Poor Richard’s News:
Think like a Nazi, the assignment required students. Argue why Jews are evil.Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment to make an abhorrent argument:
“You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!”
Students were asked to watch and read Nazi propaganda, then pretend their teacher was a Nazi government official who needed to be convinced of their loyalty. In five paragraphs, they were required to prove that Jews were the source of Germany’s problems.
The exercise was intended to challenge students to formulate a persuasive argument and was given to three classes, Albany Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said. She said the assignment should have been worded differently.
“I would apologize to our families,” she said. “I don’t believe there was malice or intent to cause any insensitivities to our families of Jewish faith.”
One-third of the students refused to complete the assignment, she said.
Vanden Wyngaard said the exercise reflects the type of writing expected of students under the new Common Core curriculum, the tough new academic standards that require more sophisticated writing. Such assignments attempt to connect English with history and social studies.
Anyone with any command or understanding of rhetoric should be able to argue either side of an argument.
For example, I might start: “Jews are hatched from eggs. Thus their personalities are more reptilian than human. They poison everything they ya da ya da ya da.”
Once you look at the arguments in the light of day you see the ridiculous assertions, analogies and fallacies.
I suspect the Nazis would approve of stifling one of the three legs of classical education: logic, grammar and rhetoric (the ‘trivium’), while scholars with an eye for such things might say, “Oy, I’ll try, I’ll try ...”.
Why is it never write as a Jewish person trying to persuade a Nazi not to force you and your family to take a “shower” in the gas chamber?
What is your actual thought? Very interested. Thanks.
I looked it up and transcribed the following from a table. It’s not specific, as you point out, but you can see how it might suggest this sort of thing ... and who knows what is suggested to teachers in training sessions and what not.
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What the Student Does…
Generate informational texts
Make arguments using evidence
Organize for persuasion
Compare multiple sources
What the Teacher Does…
Present opportunities to write from multiple sources
Spend less time on personal narratives
Provide opportunities to analyze and synthesize ideas
Develop students’ voice so that they can argue a point with evidence
Give permission to reach and articulate their own conclusions about what they read
These types of assignments are probably serving an ulterior motive of profiling students for the future. “true believers” will be followed and nurtured, dissenters will be noted.
Just like the internet, whatever you write and leave as printed or electronic matter in school will be there forever. Ya think 30 years later, and even though out of context, a person would be elected to something with a paper on “why jews are evil” floating around???
Teachers don’t need common core as an excuse to teach garbage. These exact same stories would appear on free republic every day way before common core was around. Teachers, unions, leftist publishers and school admins are the root of the problem.
I oppose the common core on principle (federalism), not ignorance.
If the schrewal in question is happy to assign the like of your examples in addition to their current assignment, then there is a possibility they are educators. Otherwise, they are scum.
Free choice should be the paradigm here. By all means go ahead and debate for or against something, but choose what it is that you want to debate about and in what way. In the case of the Nazis and the Jews... it should be equally valid to take a Jewish standpoint and explain why the Nazis are wicked.
“Think Like a Nazi and Explain Why Russia Must Be Destroyed”
Answer to why this is happening:
1) Nearly every teacher in this nation ( both private and government) were trained by godless Marxists in godless and Marxist-run colleges and universities.
2) If government schools are godless, single-payer, and socialist-entitlements, filled to the brim with Marxist trained teachers, then we should expect nothing but evil for the future of this nation.
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Marxists always give warnings as to what they want to do and **will** do if given the chance. Fundamentally, many a liberal Jew and fellow Useful Idiots will be very surprised when the Marxist/Prog brown boots show up at their gun-free homes.
An **excellent** point.
By the way, I did a Google search on my screen name some months ago. There was a long list of excerpts from my posts arguing against government socialist-entitlement schooling. Some defender of the government schools had gone to a **lot** of work compiling all of those quotes.
Bttt
No. Stalin killed a lot more people, but there was no specific mass relocation/deportation of Jews in the USSR. Moreover, based on all evidence, the #s living in the USSR and it’s occupied territories don’t come close to those in Nazi occupied territories. If you have sources, I’d be interested in seeing them.
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