Unionized teachers current instruction of American history:
1) 9/11 was an inside job
2) ALL American Indians were noble people who NEVER had slaves or killed other Indian tribes
3) Che,JFK,RFK and MLK were the FAB four of the 60’s and were more popular than Jesus Christ!!
4) FDR saved the US from economic catastrophe
5) Ronald Reagan is the root of all US deficits/debt
6) Founding fathers were slave holding,wife beating, greedy, white males sociopaths who ‘rebelled’ from England because they did not want to pay their FAIR share of taxes.
7) Woodrow Wilson desegregated the federal government.
8) Without the federal government financial backing and expertise, the Wright Brothers would have NEVER succeeded in Kitty Hawk.
9) Slave Reparations are a moral duty.
10) The CIA caused aids in homo’s,crack in the hood and Bernie Goetz shooting in the subway.
Two examples for you. I have two friends who are teachers, one in history, the other in chemistry.
The history teacher is appalled that American history in his school is being de-emphasized in favor of world history. But other than speaking up at meetings - which he has done - he is powerless to stop this.
The chemistry teacher has been told not to use any math in her chemistry class! Yes, you read that right. Her supervisors feel that math will intimidate some students. So math must be eliminated from chemistry.
My chemistry teacher friend feels that teaching her class without using math is a form of malpractice, so she is using math where appropriate. She has been written up for this twice, and expects to be fired at the semester break in February. She will certainly be replaced by someone who will follow the no-math rule better than she did.
So who is at fault here? it's not the teachers. It's the idiotic - and very liberal - school administrators. And the school board members who are too lazy to watch over their district.