Suckin' up to terrorists.
Posted on 11/09/2004 6:16:03 PM PST by myvoice
Pop quiz: Who’s responsible for the attacks of 9-11? If you said the United States, you’re well qualified to teach American students about the defining historical event of their lives. That, at least, is the conclusion reached by Dickinson College.
This September, in a bid to resolve the lingering dilemma over how best to broach with students the subject of the attacks, and terrorism generally, the Carlisle, Pa-based college sponsored a contest. Together with the Smithsonian Institution, the college invited educators across the country to submit lesson plans proposing creative ways to teach the subject of September 11. The four winning entries—one each for the elementary school, middle school, high school, and college level—were expected to share a common purpose. As explained by the contest’s director, Dickinson professor and former Brookings institution scholar Douglas Stuart, they had to help American students “confront and make sense of, the horrific events of that day.”
So went the official rules. But if the contest’s eventual winners are any indication, there was yet another, unspoken criterion: the lesson plans had to encourage students in the notion that the terrorist attacks, however horrific, were the direct consequence of an abominably misguided U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East.
Call it Blame America 101. Outspoken leftist activist and fifth grade teacher Bob Peterson, whose plan to teach 9-11 at elementary schools was selected as one of the four winning entries, urges students to consider the attacks “in the broader context of global injustice.” To wrap their young minds around terrorism, Peterson contends, they must first untangle the “tough questions,” such as, “Why do they hate us?” Another winner, Iowa middle school teacher Tracy Paxton, recommends a vocabulary lesson. Among the words she believes shed light on the nature of terrorism are, “Al Qaeda,” “Saddam Hussein,” “stereotype,” “Taliban,” and, ominously, “Right wing.”
I suppose that is also why the Islamofascist aholes are attacking countries like Spain, Norway, Bali, Indonesia, etc. These stupid people in charge of America's children. Seriously, something has to be done about our schools before they totally steal the minds of each successive generation. They are aborting their own babies but stealing ours!
Oh man. I have a two-year-old, so I have a few years. I guess I better start looking at private schools or think long and hard about home schooling.
Exactly, and if any more proof is needed the degenerates at DU are a prime example of the garbage produced out of NEA controlled public schools.
Thanks for posting that!!! I had no idea they would be trying to teach about 9/11 so quickly in schools to children so young.
I always thought I would get to explain it to my daughter, born Aug 15, '01 and how I felt at the time.
I guess when she gets to school, I will ask about a syllabus and be sure to attend class that day!
This is absolutely disgusting. How can this be allowed to happen? Is there no recourse to combat this dangerous nonsense?
aka the Clinton legacy
Z is for Zinn
Off Topic, but someone really should make a site where the rest of us can put up our own signs.
Then again, I guess those of us who voted for Bush have jobs and more to do with our lives than whine.
The ass made in France and a gift from the people of France!!
Yeah, we're the ignorant ones, but they convieniently overlook the fact that the Islamofascists have believed they are doing God's will when they "slay the infidel" long before the US even came into existance, let alone adopted a foreign policy towards the Middle East.
Its one thing to believe it is God's will that you destroy or dominate everyone and everything that doesn't share your particular world view when your means of implementation is a sword or even an ak47; quite another when technology and timing offer the possibility of replacing the sword or ak with WMD...
That "we're sorry" crap really blows! I prefer this site: http://www.werenotsorry.com/
And thank God for that.
Thanks man. I hadn't realized they put up more comedians on that site. Notice the Clinton-like fake frowns on so many of their faces.
"Enemy Within" Bump
I cruised through 5 groups of those pictures and I must say that they are mostly very young and anti-social looking. Probably the DU crowd judging from the language.
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