Oklahoma’s demented fight against AP history - bill would fight teaching "what's bad about America"

Salon ^ | February 18, 2015 | Mary Elizabeth Williams

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Some of them did overt acts of terrorism on the country (now they make education policy and teach).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

[freeangel]

Common Core is infiltrating everything from pre-k to college courses with “educational” material published and funded by Bill and Melinda Gates publishing links in an effort to promote 3rd world order. It is introduced into every subject while rewriting history and moral standards. It MUST be stopped!

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, that’s a great example. Many not so extreme, of course, but plenty of fellow travelers.

[MrB]

Local control, school choice, and parents who care.

Let the schools teach what the parents want,
and those that don’t want their kids taught that can put them in different schools or classes.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In reality, the question whether America is exceptional is the question of whether whether the American Revolution, the American Constitution, and American tradition were/are "worth it.” If America is not exceptional, it should not have rebelled against the British crown. You either accept that America is exceptional, or you reject the premise of its founding. The big question is, who judges and by what criteria? If it is the people who want to come here, and the people who are here and appreciate the blessings to be found here, the question is answered in the affirmative. If it people who are here and take their blessings for granted and their dissatisfactions as noteworthy, or if it is people who come in the sprit of invaders, the answer is no.

The other way to separate the sheep from the goats is to ask whether they subscribe to the notion, expressed by Theodore Roosevelt, that “It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who does actually try to do the deeds.” The sheep will say, “Of course;” the goats will take any occasion to promote the critic and denigrate “the man in the arena.”

The sheep will identify with I, Pencil as an expression of the complexity of an efficient economy, the goats will presume that someone is smart enough to quantify the value of all inputs diffused throughout society which go into making a pencil. The goats cannot tell you the difference between “society” and government; the sheep will subscribe to

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil - Thomas Paine, Common Sense