Posted on 10/14/2014 8:04:14 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Brazoria County is home to Alvin ISD where ABC-13 was among the local TV news outlets that reported on parents outraged by a sixth grade assignment on the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
At the time that these students were given the homework to write a one-page paper, only American journalist James Foley had been butchered by ISIS barbarians. It should also be disconcerting to parents that in the non-Common Core state of Texas, the assignment links back to the Common Core website Teaching the Core.
Alvin ISD sixth-graders were asked to read the two-page document, What is Isis? an article sourced to MTV News. According to ABC 13, the second line of the informational text "explains to the 11 year-olds the terrorist group takes credit for beheading an American journalist."
Although the district claimed that only two parents complained about the homework, the local ABC affiliate spoke with other parents who expressed many more concerns about youngsters seeing a graphic beheading video that accompanied the assignment. Russell Pharris was one of the parents who told the news outlet that he thought this content was a bit much for an 11 year-old. "They're still going to the playground."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Had that happened to my kids, I would have come unglued....there is absolutely NO reason to subject kids to the vile acts of terrorists.
This is the plan.
The founding of America was an error, and these shitheads are going to correct it.
Start with confusing the kids with common core agitprop, rather than educating them.
MTV News?
I think I’ll be voting for Rob Astorino for NY gov. on the ANTIcommon core line.
In further news all the children returned to class the next day as scheduled. sigh.....
How about letting them watch the news feeds of the towers falling on 9/11 and let them write papers on Muslims.
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