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.
The distinctions between 1930’s Germany and 2010’s America are fast disappearing.
That is a GREAT response. The Politically Correct Nazis who love Muslims would probably disagree.
If he did, he doesn’t anymore.
It’s like the healthcare law. Once you find out what’s in it, you don’t like it.
Thanks for the ‘aren’t our school teachers wonderful’ ping...
Pretend you’re a Liberal Elite, read up on totalitarian societies, discover how to firmly place a boot on someone’s face...
Learning to think like other people is a good assignment, useful when examining world history to understand that everybody thinks they’re the good guys. I don’t think I’d pick Nazis though, that’s pushing the point a little too far.
No, it's not true.
Thanks for the info. If Huck could not see what’s wrong with that program without the Tea Party getting on his back, I would be disappointed and worried that he’s gone even more RINO. I would be very surprised if he seriously runs and leaves his comfy routine. I doubt that I would ‘jump off the enclosed front porch and try to play with the snakes again’ if I didn’t have to do it.
http://www.redstate.com/spunkypundit/2013/05/25/gov-huckabee-supports-common-core/
Has he changed his mind?
Twitchy has a p re: Huckabee’s backpaddling. The tweet comments are interesting.
http://twitchy.com/2013/12/07/mike-huckabee-backpedals-on-common-core-support-video/
"My statement on the Common Core has been misconstrued." - Gov. Huckabee
There is no doubt about that.
Huckabee Opening Statement - Schools - Common Core & What It Has Become!
That should clarify things for you.
Some tweeters pointed out that Common Core hasn’t ‘become’ anything it wasn’t designed to be. Others point out that Huckabee never addressed the innate progressivism of Common Core. Why did he support it to begin with? Did he not know there was nothing conservative about it?
Some ‘Tweeters?’ LOL Consider the source.
Some very good conservatives tweet. Liberals do not have a monopoly on it. Considering the source, the persons questioning Huckabee’s backpeddle are conservatives.
You didn’t address why Huckabee supported Common Core in the first place. Also, why did Huckabee leave progressivism out of his discussion of what Common Core has ‘become’? It was never designed to be neutral or conservative; it was progressive from its inception.
You obviously didn't watch the video I linked to.
Why did he support it to begin with?
He explained that extensively in the video I linked to.
Did he not know there was nothing conservative about it?
What a load of horse crap. What is anti-conservative about individual states setting standards for math and English.
So Common Core started out as a good thing, and became progressive somewhere along the way?
Try listening to what he said in the video and you won’t have to ask me to answer questions already answered. He was very clear about all of those things.
I can’t bear to listen to the man. It brings to mind the horror story of how his son tortured a wretched, homeless dog to death. The son should have been prosecuted, but Huckabee got him off the hook. He said hanging the dog loosely by the neck & pelting it w rocks until it finally died was his son’s way of “putting it down”.
Go bother somebody else with your adolescent obsessions, kid.
That is a complete misrepresentation of what I wrote. Why wd you feel the need to misrepresent me to such a degree?
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