Posted on 09/24/2014 7:10:06 PM PDT by Right Brother
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay.
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Organized by the teaching staff, I assume.
How about truancy here?
This is Denver students on Drugs
They just hate the idea that a black man is President.
WOW teaching patriotism how dare they/sarc they should have promoted Communism instead now that is something those idiot students would have been cheered
Good for the school!
Put the walkouts on that old school word, EXPULSION!!
Let the parents wail their ‘oh my poor baby is being ostracized’ crap!
Let the dumb bunnies who walked out learn the hard way, that there are consequences to their actions!
(if there were teachers behind this, the other pareents should find the teachers, in the supermarket, at the coffee shop, the gas station, wherever, with a Louisville-produced tool.
And the sore loser lefty parents. They can't let the people's vote be counted, so they use other means to overthrow the will of the people. Like Proposition 8 in California. The sore losers shopped around for a sodomite judge and got the Proposition nullified. Here's hoping that the voters in this Colorado community hangs tough and support their school board.
of course
they should announce that those who walk out are failed for the year
At least they aren’t going to poison their minds with the Federalist Papers.
Stupid students. If their teachers have ANY gumption they will give them zero for the day.
No they didn’t.
They walked out because for kids, any excuse will do, and the UNION TEACHERS encouraged the behavior.
Pupils don’t mind if they fail for a year; it’s all a big joke, a no-brainer, to them. They aren’t “students” but pupils in need of direction.
I'd have to read the actual material, but the "respect for authority" might be a problem for me. Also, not all authorities deserve respect, and not all laws are just.
Someone should find out who organized this and fire them.
This is about as fundamentally and completely anti-United States as it could be.
Time to start pink slipping some of these traitors.
Now that makes sense.
Teacher’s unions, now there’s something that should never have been allowed.
Join a union as a teacher, pick up your last pay check.
Not to mention the emphasis on environmentalism ("saving the earth"} which starts about the third grade and continues through science classes, history classes and "social studies" until the kids are able to recite Rachel Carson and AlGore from memory.
Let's face it: American public schools are our version of madrasas with nearly as rigid a curriculum, the difference being it's anti-religious rather than devoted to one faith as in the Muslim world.
When Common Core is implemented nationwide, does anyone expect there will be protests? I don't.
The schools have been in the pocket of leftists since John Dewey. There have been occasional deviations, once-in-a-decade take-overs of school boards by well-meaning conservatives. But as a rule, they don't last; either they get voted out or give up in frustration after being verbally assaulted by unionized teachers, PTA parents and the local media.
This small victory for including traditional subjects to be taught in Jefferson County schools has made headlines, generated discussion on talk shows and probably brought a smile or two to conservative parents. But don't even expect that the NEA, the federal Department of Education, the Colorado Department of Education and the various hangers-on whose livelihood is tied to what once was called "progressive education" will roll over and play dead.
Next year, they will enlist the help of teachers' unions nation-wide to raise millions to re-take the school board. And they will probably succeed, since there is no equivalent "parents' union" and most parents don't know what their kids are being exposed to in class anyway.
It's a futile exercise at best.
If you have school-age children and hope to see them learn without the left-wing bias that comes with government-funded education, there are ways to do it, but don't expect a majority of parents in your town to come to your aid and swing the next school-board election to a conservative slate so Johnny will be taught un-PC American History.
It's not likely to happen, and the clock is ticking. By the time they're in high school, your kids have had eight years of getting their young minds filled with liberal mush. Turning them into conservatives at that late stage is more difficult, so it's better that you get an earlier start.
If they are already in a public school, take them out of it. They're your kids, not the government's--not yet anyway--and it's your right to give them the kind of education you think is appropriate.
Home school, private school, parochial school, even military school is preferable to the cesspool that's the public schools.
They are socialist from the start, so why would anyone expect them to honestly give fair credit to the free-market, capitalist system for making the United States the most productive (and until recently, the most free) nation there ever was?
Isn’t POT legal there?
The marxists are cruising for a bruising
AP should get hammered and agenda driven reporter Colleen Slevin trashed for inserting gratuitous defication in a report of a student protest encouraged by the local teacher’s union. Including not metioning the protest was supported and encouraged by school staff.
Until there is push back on such reporting sources this stuff will continue.
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