TEXAS MOM OUTRAGED AFTER FINDING STUNNING QUESTION ABOUT 9/11, TERRORISM ON HER SON’S 5TH GRADE TEST

TheBlaze.com ^ | 3/21/2013 | Jason Howerton

[trisham]

It’s frightening.

[fr_freak]

And he sat me down and told me that as a teacher his number one priority in life was to teach his students to think for themselves. To look at the issues and let their own beliefs and their own conscience take them to what they decided was right.

While I am happy to hear that, for a left-wing nutbag, the guy is unusually fair-minded, I think that the high-minded, lofty ideals that teachers ascribe to themselves are a huge part of the problem with mass education. The things kids need from primary school through high school are Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, and the variants thereof. Having someone take on the mantle of "teacher" and believing that it makes them some higher spiritual guru who is "shaping young minds" and "teaching kids how to think" is exactly the sort of corrupting vanity that leads such people to inject all sorts of garbage into the curriculum.

For example, your teacher stated that he wanted all kids to be "holding our own views with the same passion and strength of belief that he had about his". Well, that implies that he wants them to follow in his pattern of behavior, even if they don't follow his specific thinking. So, if he is an obnoxious, radical, overbearing professional whiner who thinks the highest calling is running around chanting slogans and browbeating everyone within earshot with his political views, then he is, in essence, trying to get his students to do the same, even if they do it on the right side of issues rather than the left. What if the very method he espouses is part of the problem?

Just teach the 3 R's. The kids will take care of the rest themselves.

[deport]

Previous links to the CSCOPE stories if anyone is interested in reading the comments thereon.

Flour Bluff Parent Upset Over Lesson on Terrorism & Government (CSCOPE Social Studies Curriculum) ^

Flour Bluff (TX) Parent Upset Over Lesson on Terrorism & Government (CSCOPE Curriculum) ^

CSCOPE – When is it coming to your State? ^

CSCOPE: Exposing the Nation’s Most Controversial Public School Curriculum System ^

Some teachers at odds with CSCOPE (Texas, very scary stuff) ^

Other Articles about students wearing BURQAS in Texas classroom [CSCOPE lesson]

[MHGinTN]

You've hit a point that perhaps even you have missed!

The 'propaganda' is served up right alongside the children's level association level, the companion dog. You see, getting the propaganda down into the hearts and minds requires a 'carrier' at the age these kids are. They are fed a sort of dialectic, by which the desired programming makes it into their psyche without even a hint of differentiation.

We maybe should look at what bill the bomber Ayers was pushing as his 'curriculum'. He consulted with Chavez, too, to help that devil realign the schooling of children in Venezuela. The current bastard int he White House has billy the bomber as a close personal friend from whose livingroom he launched his political career. Isn't it special! /sarcasm

[varyouga]

On 9/12/01 (or whenever schools first opened), my friend's kid went to school and got a lecture in his highschool history class about how we are responsible for making ‘them’ angry and shouldn't retaliate because it will make ‘them’ more angry. It wasn't even known who did it at the time!

This was in NYC and dust from the WTC was still sitting on the parked cars outside. You could smell the burnt flesh.

I can't even imagine what these idiots are telling our kids 12 years later all across the country...

[littleharbour]

How is the Republican Governor and Republican State House and Republican Senate allowing this?

[Rusty0604]

Probably that 9-11 happened because U.S. isn’t treating gay people fairly.

[Paleo Conservative]

Thanks!

[Paleo Conservative]

I’m a good friend of Kara Sands. She’s done an excellent leading the fight against the CSCOPE social studies propaganda curriculum. It’s outrageous that until recently the developers of this subversive curriculum used threats of criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits to prevent parents and the public from reviewing the contents of their curriculum.

[varyouga]

Because it’s impossible to monitor everything that every teacher does. That’s the responsibility of the parents, not the state. Unfortunately, too many kids today don’t have any...

[Paleo Conservative]

Quiz given fifth-grader blames U.S. for 9/11 attacks, Texas mother claims

Published March 21, 2013

A Texas mother is outraged by a school quiz given to her son that seemingly blames the United States for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Kara Sands posted the test her son received in fifth grade at the Flour Bluff Independent School District in September on her Facebook page, which attracted more than 1,600 users in support of her concerns. Sands told KRISTV.com that she was most dismayed by a question that asked why the U.S. may be a target for terrorism. Her son chose the correct answer to the test that covered material from a video students watched in class: “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”

"I'm not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did anything to deserve that; over 3,000 people died," Sands told the station.

Sands later met with the school’s principal, her son’s teacher and contacted the video’s distributor, Safari Montage, whose representatives stand behind the video but have already changed the corresponding quiz.

School officials said Safari Montage representatives apologized for the wording of the question, saying it was not their intent to blame the United States for the terror attacks.

“In fact, the video was generated to convey a patriotic message, explaining the events of 911 [sic] and the way we memorialize it,” the statement released on Tuesday read.

Copies of the video are available to be viewed by parents, the statement continued.

Sands, meanwhile, plans to bring up her concerns during the next school board meeting on March 28.

"When I teach my children that you have to work hard and you have to earn a living and they go to school and learn something different, I absolutely take issue with that," she said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/21/texas-mother-reportedly-angry-over-11-quiz-claims-blamed-us-for-attacks/print#ixzz2OJT6plmx

[GOPJ]

I’ll bet the teacher comes from a culture that hates the United States...

[GOPJ]

...my contempt for people who try to impose their political views on kids knows no bounds

I like that... too bad more teachers don't feel the same way...

[Black Agnes]

And he may have wanted you and your views to get killed in a war. Encouraging you to put yourself in harms way doesn’t sound very benign to me.

[Black Agnes]

It isn’t just the teacher. It’s pretty much the entire statewide curriculum. Teachers who do NOT teach this curriculum are fired.

[Delta 21]

A and C are correct.

[Delta 21]

..on #3.

[DallasSun]

I am speechless.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

My kid's school sucks as bad as this one.

Fortunately, I'm the only one.

[naturalman1975]

While I am happy to hear that, for a left-wing nutbag, the guy is unusually fair-minded, I think that the high-minded, lofty ideals that teachers ascribe to themselves are a huge part of the problem with mass education. The things kids need from primary school through high school are Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, and the variants thereof. Having someone take on the mantle of "teacher" and believing that it makes them some higher spiritual guru who is "shaping young minds" and "teaching kids how to think" is exactly the sort of corrupting vanity that leads such people to inject all sorts of garbage into the curriculum.

I don't believe it is enough to teach kids just the three Rs. I think they should come first, but if that's done properly, for the vast majority of kids, that can be accomplished by the age of 13.

In fairness, I should probably point out that the school I attended as a boy, where this teacher taught, is generally regarded as the best private school in my entire country (Australia). It's not a typical school. It tends to educate a large number of people who will go on to be Australia's leaders - and sometimes more than that. Both the Prince of Wales, and Rupert Murdoch, are Old Boys of the school, as well as Prime Ministers of Australia, High Court Judges, vast numbers of lesser notables. The school I teach at now has a similar reputation (although only one school can the 'best'). These aren't typical schools and what they do may not be able to be replicated at all schools - but I honestly think public education would be better off, if it at least tried to do things the same way we did (and I know of a couple of government schools here which have - with great success).

For example, your teacher stated that he wanted all kids to be "holding our own views with the same passion and strength of belief that he had about his". Well, that implies that he wants them to follow in his pattern of behavior, even if they don't follow his specific thinking. So, if he is an obnoxious, radical, overbearing professional whiner who thinks the highest calling is running around chanting slogans and browbeating everyone within earshot with his political views, then he is, in essence, trying to get his students to do the same, even if they do it on the right side of issues rather than the left. What if the very method he espouses is part of the problem?

I don't think he ever browbeat anyone at school - his political activities took place outside of the school - it was just that we certainly weren't unaware of them, and when matters came up for discussion in classes that were specifically based around the study of politics and philosophy, he was open about his beliefs as we were encouraged to be about ours. These matters were not discussed in our science classes, or our mathematics classes, or our history classes (which were concerned with events in the renaissance, in those final years), or our English classes (except in a technical sense of looking at how language could be used to present or sway opinions). They were confined to classes for senior students specifically devoted to understanding philosophy and politics.