Posted on 09/23/2017 2:47:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Arizona mother spoke out against her son’s 4th-grade teacher having students recite an altered version of the Declaration of Independence in class, reported Arizona ABC-affiliate KNXV Wednesday.
The Salk Elementary School teacher replaced the word “men” with “humans” whenever it appeared in the Declaration. The mother, Elizabeth Vaillancourt, posted about the teacher’s actions on her Facebook account, including a photo of the altered Declaration of Independence. In one of the comments, she also provided the number of the superintendent Mr. McCord and encouraged people to contact him and complain.
“Zev’s teacher has this hanging in the classroom can anyone guess what’s wrong with this picture?”
When Vaillancourt aired her grievances with the school, administrators told her she hurt the teacher’s feelings by posting about the incident on social media. The school removed Vaillancourt’s son from the teacher’s class and the sign was taken down.
After Vaillancourt posted on Facebook, she was contacted by a member of the ABC15 team for an interview about the situation. She shared the photo of the altered Declaration again Wednesday before her interview to provide an update.
“What she [the teacher] is doing is indoctrination you may be alright with her doing this but it is against board and school policy so therefore she was in the wrong,” Vaillancourt wrote.
“Each and every morning after the Pledge of Allegiance is said, the class recited this altered version of our Declaration of Independence. The teacher also felt it was ‘A teachable moment’ when she shared with the class that she attended a protest of our President Donald J. Trump. I beg of you all for future generations to remain free, please beware of what is actually occurring in our schools.”
A spokeswoman for Mesa Public Schools said the policies for school ceremonies included reciting the Declaration of Independence.
“It should be recited as written, and not modified in any way. School administration, when learning of the alteration to the text, provided feedback and guidance to the teacher to restore the document to its original format,” she said.
“There is not a specific reference in policy to the discussion of political beliefs by a teacher in a classroom, however in practice the district does not allow teachers to share their political views with students. When the teacher used a personal example of how individuals can have differing political views but still be friends, the principal reminded the teacher that personal examples are not appropriate in the classroom setting.”
Why do they promote gender nuetral, when they name the hurricanes that's going on?
There was a long thread on this yesterday.
Somebody commented, what’s the big deal, the word “men” means everyone, not just males, and this teacher was simply updating the language in this historic document. We don’t want these kids to think that Jefferson meant just males, etc. etc.
Others said you shouldn’t change the precise words used in an historic document, but should rather use class time, to discuss how language changes over periods of years, how words don’t always mean now what they did then, etc. etc.
Former Arizona Teacher Makes Students Recite Gender-Neutral Version Of Declaration Of Independence
Hurricanes used to have only women’s names, but because of feminist pressure, they started using men’s names too, in 1979.
So that’s why we alternate between men’s and women’s names in hurricanes.
Idiots. Man means two things: the male, and mankind. Only stupid hateful feminazis think it means only the male. History of the English language.
Here it is, from google;
1.
an adult human male.
synonyms: male, adult male, gentleman; More
2.
a human being of either sex; a person.
“God cares for all races and all men”
synonyms: human being, human, person, mortal, individual, personage, soul
“all men are mortal”
verb
Hurt feelings? Then don’t post it. Learned early in my 30 years of public high school teaching, teach as if the parents are in the class.
man - mankind (everyone)
It’s rather simple really.
Be that as it may, People!, pull your kids out of government run indoctrination camps. Unplug your cable. Stop buying a new car every two or three years. Bite the bullet and send them to private school. Or, better yet, one of you quit your job and homeschool your kids.
Okay. Rant over. Here's your chance to post your excuse as to why you absolutely MUST send your kids to public school.
I checked a contemporaneous, with the Declaration, dictionary. Man meant human beings then, too. :-)
Stupid teacher. Everyone knows it should be "humyns" or maybe even "hue-myns" to add the color aspect.
Yes it should be simple. But the liberals choose to make things more difficult.
Some liberals won’t say “mankind”. Instead, they invented the word “humankind” to show that they are sophisticated and not sexist and all that.
But the word has “MAN” in it. They should say “huwomankind” for the females, and “humankind” for the males.
But then, nowadays, you have at least 56 different gender identities and related pronouns, that you can just speak of his and hers anymore anyway.
Should read “can’t” speak of his and hers.
You know what I would say to one of them.
Say what? That isn’t even a word!
Where did you go to school? What grade did you finish?
I thought the word ‘human’ was not to be used and deemed politically incorrect since it had MAN in it.
I wonder if she/he/it would include unborn humans.
Some day this mass mental illness will come to an end.
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>> “Some day this mass mental illness will come to an end.” <<
In the fall of 2024!
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And ironically, the word “human” is derived from Latin “humanus” (of man) as modified from “homo”, which specifically refers to a male human (Latin for the female is “femina”).
Vermont teacher fired after leading third graders in Nazi salute
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/23/vermont-teacher-fired-after-leading-third-graders-in-nazi-salute.html
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