Teaching the lessons of 9/11

Monterey County Herald ^ | Sat, Aug. 31, 2002 | KATE ZERNIKE

[hedgetrimmer]

The anniversary of Sept. 11 has set off the latest skirmish in the classroom culture wars.

On one side are school districts, universities and organizations across the country that have produced a host of lesson plans for the day that try to teach everything from what snacks to eat for mental health to the traditions of Islam.

[hedgetrimmer]

The criticism to the lessons on tolerance, he said, is thinly veiled bigotry.

Or it is a supreme distrust of the UN and UNESCO which is fountainhead of all the "tolerance" curriclum, and force behind the "tolerance" pimps in the school system.

[hedgetrimmer]

9/11 PING

[Billthedrill]

"For some kids, school may be the only place they have where they can find a listening ear," said Jerald Newberry...

Mr. Newberry is much more comfortable indoctrinating the kiddies himself than allowing them to get this stuff from their parents. He, after all, is an anointed Expert.

One can respond two different ways to a kid who asks "why did they do this?" First is to tell him or her how very complicated it all is, that the U.S. foreign policy, the Israeli military activity, decades of "hegemony," cultural imperialism, etc, etc ad nauseum, are responsible and the persons crashing the planes into innocent victims were really victims themselves, and how the real victims were really the oppressors,

Or one can say "the people who did this are evil."

The second is the truth, the first serves to keep bloviating "experts" in business. Which to choose, which to choose...

[Diogenesis]

Children should cry (like adults) and see the truth.

We are at war. The NEA are idiots. Teacher leave those kids alone.

Gotta Hear This [ENYA.mp3 3 Megabytes]

[Monty22]

Remember..

The government is spoon feeding us the *same* nonsense as this guy is. The media is as well. Talk of how evil islam is will *never* be propagated by the media or government. That's why we're going to get hit again and again, and eventually lose the war with islam.

[Monty22]

Remember..

The government is spoon feeding us the *same* nonsense as this guy is. The media is as well. Talk of how evil islam is will *never* be propagated by the media or government. That's why we're going to get hit again and again, and eventually lose the war with islam.

[j271]

The anti-American left must be called on their blame-America agenda every time. Not one single syllable of their seditious lies can go unrefuted.

[hedgetrimmer]

Children are playing about and trying out violence. We’ve seen children intentionally break or damage other children’s block and Lego constructions, something that hadn’t happened until recent weeks. Gun play and “bad guy” play are ever-present at our school, and I’ve heard from some parents that they’ve seen their children take up gun play at home in new and startling ways. There’s a recurring game in our classroom in which firefighters are trapped in a burning building and are hurt and killed before the rescue workers can reach them. Children build tall towers with blocks and knock them down, over and over and over. Children have begun to make poison foods in their play and feed them to bad guys; several days last week, children hunted down and captured bad guys, throwing them into the oven to “roast and cook and eat them for supper.”

A teacher offers help to parents

Part of the curriculum offered by Rethinking Schools. Did you as a kid ever engage in "bad guy play"? Sounds like the kids she observed were right on track!

[Redleg Duke]

For years, we Americans have bent over backwards to get the rest of the world to like us. 9/11 is what we got in return.

As an American, I really don't give a damn if any of the rest of the world like us...but they better, By God, fear us! They better fear us so much that they would rather deal with their own hotheads before their hotheads piss us off.

We need to make both Afganistan and Iraq be the poster children for the folly of pissing off America.