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What Are Your Kids Learning In School?
Powerline ^ | August 22, 2014 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 08/23/2014 11:38:49 AM PDT by fifedom

(D)escriptions, written by Twin Cities area high school teachers, of how their schools teach literature classes. This one comes from Edina High School, which was once known as an excellent institution:

Acceptance and inter-cultural understanding can be fostered through the use of powerful texts, discussion, analysis, and exploration in the classroom. An English curriculum grounded in social justice rests on a belief based in equity—that each person should have access to resources regardless of race, gender, ability, age, socio-economic status, or sexual orientation.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; education; governmentschools; homeschooling; teachersunions
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To: hosepipe; NFHale; DuncanWaring; wku man; Marcella; Old Sarge; AllAmericanGirl44; raybbr; ...
Demoralizing the already demoralized is not possible.. DUH!..

That's a weak justification for doing the enemy's bidding here.

81 posted on 08/24/2014 3:52:56 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: wku man
Just do this nation a favor and run away to another country, 'cause trying to motivate you to do your duty as an American is a waste of time. The surrender monkey, "America is finished" crap is getting damn old, and damn boring, so give it a rest.
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Surrender?!... wheres that coming from.. I said nothing about surrender..
You're putting words in my mouth"... you know "projection"..

You're projecting.. implying what I DIDNT SAY... imply or even intimate.. You're surrender monkey cliche'... projects a liberal bent.. You use the same tactics.. Who's paying you.. Karl Rove?.. Soros?..

82 posted on 08/24/2014 3:53:42 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe; NFHale; DuncanWaring; wku man; Marcella; Old Sarge; AllAmericanGirl44; raybbr; ...
Your tagline:

hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)

Just sayin'...

83 posted on 08/24/2014 4:01:21 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

I get it. It’s much wiser (in your opinion) to keep pounding in the idea that our side has lost, and that there’s nothing we can do to arrest the downfall of our country.


I don’t know what “side” you’re ON!...
Am presently trying to determine that..
Not looking good presently..

The conservatives “HAVE” lost.. it’s the truth... meaning NOT fiction..
To NOT accept the conservatives have lost and ARE losing badly.. is agitprop...
AND spreads contention and is a diversion...

America is not conservative any more.. and with the alien thing is getting even LESS conservative..


84 posted on 08/24/2014 4:03:47 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Windflier

Just sayin’...


Just saying what?...


85 posted on 08/24/2014 4:04:50 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: wku man

Buy the movie.

It’s got information ... ummm ... “useful” for what lies ahead.

As well as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAtn6I5rbY

http://www.sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2014/08/cold-as-it-gets-dedicated-to-mark-potok.html

And, don’t miss the tale of Aunt Jenny’s Soapdish.
http://auntjennyjohnson.blogspot.com/2009/03/aunt-jenny-johnson.html


86 posted on 08/24/2014 4:09:06 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: hosepipe; NFHale; DuncanWaring; wku man; Marcella; Old Sarge; AllAmericanGirl44; raybbr; ...
I don’t know what “side” you’re ON!... Am presently trying to determine that.. Not looking good presently..

That's laughable, coming from someone who's posting defeatist drivel on a patriotic American forum. To wit:

The conservatives “HAVE” lost.. it’s the truth... meaning NOT fiction.. To NOT accept the conservatives have lost and ARE losing badly.. is agitprop...

Uh-huh.

My posting history here speaks for itself.

On second thought, maybe you're being completely honest about what 'side' you're on. You freely admit to being some sort of propagandist in your tagline.

Look here.....the truth is, you've never lost until you surrender. Apparently, you've done just that, and are now trying to get your fellow conservatives to do the same. We've seen it all too often on FR over the years.

Yours is a dead-end mission, my friend. You'll never convince the majority of patriots to strike their colors the way you're doing. And if you think you can continue to sell your defeatist message on FR, think again.

87 posted on 08/24/2014 4:37:16 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: hosepipe; wku man; Windflier; DuncanWaring; NFHale; Mears; eartick; AllAmericanGirl44; Old Sarge; ..

Heads up DAWGS! Here is another one of ‘em! The Conservatives have NOT lost.......except in the minds of the surrender monkeys like yours. Keep shoveling your quitter B/S.....maybe some dirt bag liberal crybaby from the DUmp is trolling here today and will get comfort from your words. Just think, he can then go back to his cesspool and report back that they are ‘winning’, that even FReepers have had enough and are tossin’ in the towel. Yeah, they will love you over there......


88 posted on 08/24/2014 5:11:18 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: ForYourChildren

Hey ya’all

What do you think about post #52 in this most enlightening thread?


89 posted on 08/24/2014 5:19:55 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool])
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To: wku man

You sound like a BULLY!


90 posted on 08/25/2014 1:04:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: make no mistake
Not sure what Snopes says but I believe Mormons have been deceived.

I agree; but sadly, so have LOTS of Christians!

91 posted on 08/25/2014 1:06:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ForYourChildren
This country was founded on Christianity.

Yeah; I know it, and I know that YOU know it, and many on FR know it; but the VAST unwashed of American VOTERS have been told OTHERWISE.


 
 
 
Mayflower Compact
 
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.

 
 
 

92 posted on 08/25/2014 1:11:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mears

Well; if we just had more sports coverage; we’d learn to play better together as a team.


93 posted on 08/25/2014 1:12:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: hosepipe

The Colts lost another pre-season game the other day.

Woe is me!


94 posted on 08/25/2014 1:16:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DuncanWaring
Your grammar’s a bit weak, too.

I'd bet that Sgt. York's was as well.

95 posted on 08/25/2014 1:17:44 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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We're sounding like a bunch of sled dogs; fighting amoungst ourselves before an important race...



But just wait until we get in the harness and start pulling together in one direction!

96 posted on 08/25/2014 1:40:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I’d bet Sgt. York’s grammar was consistent with the time and place in which he grew up.

I’d also bet he knew the difference between there, their and they’re.


97 posted on 08/25/2014 3:24:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

NO one can tell if I use the wrong homophone when I am talking...


98 posted on 08/25/2014 5:04:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

That’s daft.

Nobody “talks” here.

They “write”.


99 posted on 08/25/2014 5:33:35 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: wintertime
By the way, as I drive through the red counties and states of this nation I see schools

They let people like you drive?

100 posted on 08/25/2014 6:01:38 AM PDT by humblegunner
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