Posted on 02/10/2015 8:56:52 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
A Wisconsin mother claims her 16-year-old son's classroom assignment last week described Republicans as opposed to helping the poor because "it's a waste of money."
The woman said her son, a junior at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisc., was asked, along with other students, to complete an assignment about different views on the political spectrum while in a U.S. government and politics class on Thursday.
The assignment listed a series of quotes and required students to identify which party affiliation best represented each statement.
The first quote read, "We should not help the poor, it’s a waste of money."
The mother, who asked only to be identified as "Heather" to protect her son's privacy, said he chose option "E" for "Fascist" because he "didn't know what else could be the answer."
When the assignment was returned, the answer was marked as incorrect and the teacher wrote in option "D" for "Conservative/Republican" instead, his mother told FoxNews.com.
"I picked my son up from school on Thursday and asked him what was wrong and he brought up that quote," she said. "He asked, 'Mom, where would you say this went on the political spectrum?'"
"I said, 'Nowhere. I don’t know any political party that espouses not helping the poor,'" she told FoxNews.com. "Once we got home, I looked at the work sheet and saw that his answer was marked wrong. The teacher had put the correct answer in the margin and marked it conservative."
"I was shocked and then I was very angry," she said, claiming she called the superintendent of West Allis-West Milwaukee School District Friday morning to inquire about the assignment.
The school district issued a press release late Monday saying students were "required to take a political spectrum quiz, which is not a quiz...
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I would question the teacher....if they’ve ever been to an oppressive country in their life, and where the questions came from....cite the source.
Depends on who this “We” intends, Lone Rangers and Rangerettes.
If it’s private America, then the quiz has it so wrong.
If it’s governmental America, then the quiz has a point.
I can’t find anything in the constitution about, “helping the poor”. It’s in my bible that I should help the poor but that admonition is not for anyone else, unless they want it to be.
Are they kidding? Most GOP of conservatives I know are Christian and many of them give to charity all the time. Liberals not much from what I’ve seen. Tell you what. They want truth? Take them to a packed restaurant on a Friday or Saturday night and watch who leaves more tips on their tables and then ask the waiters or waitresses who they’d rather wait on and the truth will be revealed. Now if they’re referring to class entitlement welfare where the families dont look for jobs and just want to live iff the state they are correct. When dealing with liberals context and truth are always skewed to get the desired effect but when expose them as the manipulators and liars they really are they got nothing except to flee from the light. Because thats what cockroaches do.
The teacher probably has a dart board in his or her basement with Scott Walker’s picture on it.
This quiz is to place the student and the student’s parents on a political spectrum to go into the school’s files and probably into various socialist activists’ files for future re-education or punishment of the student and righteous harassment of the parents.
Agreed. Charity work also comes in the form of volunteerism or just helping some one out. Getting a teen in front of people who do her dream job so she can find out what’s involved and create goals or referring some one unemployed to hiring managers and coaching on interview skills is much more charitable to me than voting for higher tax dollars.
The democrat version of “help” is collective salvation. Pope Benedict said collective salvation was demonically inspired and was correct.
Collective salvation is an empty mirage. It tricks people into believing that they have done something good by using the power of government to force others to do good. In reality they tend to do less good because they believe they’ve done good and the salvation is false.
For a mortal demonstration of this simply look at the piles of trash left behind by liberals who claim to love the environment.
> The school district issued a press release late Monday saying students were “required to take a political spectrum quiz, which is not a quiz in the traditional sense with right or wrong answers; instead, the quiz asks survey questions. The answers to the questions place students on the political spectrum. While the survey is completed online, no personal information is entered, including name, login, and student number.”
Hey they have to figure how much indoctrination and false American history needs to be taught some way.../s
I have no problem with the “quiz.” I’m a conservative Republican and I would say government welfare programs are a waste of money.
Because they are.
If this “quiz” was done on-line, as stated in the article, without identification input of the person doing the “quiz”, how did the teacher get ahold of it to make corrections? How did the teacher know who to give it back to? Obviously, the original answers weren’t made on-line; they were handwritten and turned in to the teacher for “grading”.
It it almost impossible to convince most liberals that just giving things to poor(er) people helps them. I have a very lib, well-meaning stepdaughter who when asked what she would do if she won the mega-lottery would give most or all of it to the "poor."
When arguing with her that the great majority of poor would simply waste the money in a very short period time, she vociferously disagreed. "The poor need help" she wailed.
I asked her if educating/training them to help themselves wouldn't be better for them. She just looked at me like the terrible, uncaring conservative I am.
Yes, just give things to the poor....that's sure worked well hasn't it? (snicker)
Were ANY of the answers actually “fascist” or was that put on the spectrum just to taint the view of “far right wing” ideologues?
And several of the the others (that were marked wrong) were not incorrect.
> This quiz is to place the student and the student’s parents on a political spectrum to go into the school’s files and probably into various socialist activists’ files for future re-education or punishment of the student and righteous harassment of the parents.
And they said it was an anonymous test. Bull$hit. If the have assigned seating and the teacher picks them up in order they know exactly who answered each test. Libs really think people are that stupid do they? Well maybe if they’re drawing from their own crowd yeah...
Helping the poor (at least the way government does it by giving them no strings attached money for contributing nothing to the betterment of themselves or society) is an unfathomable waste of money.
Wow! Did you (and Pope Benedict) ever nail it!
Obviously, there is some serious cognitive dissonance at work here, both at the district level and at the classroom level.
The good news, is that knowing verifying the TEACHER's position in the political spectrum is extremely useful, since he/she/it chose to "provide" the "correct" answers
I would make this teacher's life hell, whether in public OR private school for treating my kid as an indoctrination subject. Big time!
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