More teachers shun NEA's 9/11 lessons

Washington Times ^ | 8/24/02 | Ellen Sorokin

[kattracks]

The New York and West Virginia affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers are the latest teachers' unions to reject the National Education Association's suggested September 11 lesson plan that cautions against assigning blame for the terrorist attacks.

The West Virginia Federation of Teachers (WVFT) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) said yesterday they are urging their members to steer clear of the lesson plan, which said that no group is responsible for the terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 people.

[Budge]

"This was a day America was attacked, and we have to teach it as such," he said. "This will definitely change the way social studies and history will be taught."

Migawd, does this mean some teachers will actually begin to teach the truth in social studies?

[csvset]

"But our children need to know the truth about what happened. We can't sugarcoat it"

Damn straight we can't sugarcoat it.

[doosee]

I know the public schools are failing their mission across the board, but this is the first time I ever heard that the unions are providing curriculum. What kind of a principal would let a teacher use this union propaganda on the kids?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Some examples mentioned in the lesson plan were the internment of Japanese- Americans after Pearl Harbor and the backlash against Arab-Americans during the Persian Gulf war.

One thing I am intolerant of is the blame America first lefties who would use Sept. 11 as an outlet for their anti-Americanism.

[mombonn]

Too bad the title isn't simply
"More teachers shun NEA".

[leadpenny]

An NEA bureaucrat is on C-SPAN now trying to defend these lesson plans.

[unbiasedtruth]

The NEA: One must be tolerant of all peoples, groups, races, and organizations...except conservatives.

Thanks goodness that some teachers are waking up to the fact that the NEA is a worthless organization that only wants their money!

[mewzilla]

If people who send their kids to public schools really want to ensure that their kids aren't being brainwashed by their teachers, parents should keep their kids home that day.

[MichiganMan]

the lesson plan, developed by Brian Lippincott, who is affiliated with the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the John F. Kennedy University in California,

I can count three words in this sentence alone that would have allowed anyone on this site to predict the general nature of the lesson plan.

100 lesson plans teachers will be able to use to help elementary, middle and high school students integrate how they might remember the day's events through subjects such as art, drama and math.

We already saw California's Drama interpretation of 9/11 with their supremely inane West Wing "imaginings" of the attack and the tellingly insecure "Hey, we're as important as New York, look back at us" egocentricity of mainstream Hollywood when with greaty wringing of hands they repeatedly rescheduled the awards shows citing their certainty that they were so important to the country that the terrorist simply must be gunning for them... sigh.

But the Math part intrigues me... let see, "3000 Americans - 19 slimeball terrorists - 20,000 taliban troops - governing control of one country + (30 days x 5000 bombs a day being dropped on your cave entrance) + X (whereas X represents the unknown possibility that one of those bombs reduced you to a dusty red paste) multiplied by the discomfort caused by Saddam realizing you just gave the infidel credible justification for taking him out = One reeeeeeeaaaally dumb mistake. Any questions?"

[Tailgunner Joe]

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