Posted on 08/28/2002 10:24:43 PM PDT by GVnana
The introduction to this curriculum is posted on the website. WARNING! It will make your hair stand-on-end as it details what is passing for 9/11 education in our public schools. Chester E. Finn is a former Asst. Sec. of Education, now president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
Mr. Finn rightly pointed-out in a recent interview that it's a travesty to teach "tolerance" to children without teaching them that "tolerance" is an American and democratic virtue which our enemies despise.
Press Release
September 11: What Our Children Need to Know
"Our newest report features timely advice on what schools should teach and children should learn about September 11—and about history, civics, heroism and terrorism. Featuring 23 statements by leading educators and experts, plus an extensive bibliography, the report is a constructive, hard-hitting alternative to the "diversity and feelings" approach that many national education groups have taken to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A PDF version of the full report is available. The report's introduction and table of contents are available in HTML.
Chester E. Finn, Jr., President
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Washington, DC
September 2002
September 11: What Our Children Need to Know
Contents
Introduction
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Lessons of the Preamble
John Agresto
Seizing This Teachable Moment
William J. Bennett
Protecting Our Precious Liberty
Lynne Cheney
Teaching Students to Count Their Blessings
William Damon
The Civic Lessons of September 11
Lucien Ellington
Hard Lessons
William Galston
Preserving America, Man's Greatest Hope
Victor Davis Hanson
Celebrating American Freedom
Kay Hymowitz
American Tolerance
Craig Kennedy
Teaching Young People to Be Patriots
Katherine Kersten
Civics, Schools and September 11
Mary Beth Klee
An Attack Upon the World
Erich Martel
Forging Heroes
Walter Russell Mead
Defending Democracy
Jeffrey Mirel
Terrorism: The "ism" du Jour
Mitchell Pearlstein
Seeing the Patterns
Theodore Rabb
America: Always Vulnerable, Never Inevitable
Richard Rodriguez
An Attack on Who We Are
Andrew J. Rotherham
Defining the American Identity
Gloria Sesso and John Pyne
Alleviating Our Historical Ignorance
Sheldon M. Stern
Heroes and Victims
Sandra Stotsky
Fighting Complacency
Kenneth R. Weinstein
What Students Should Know About War
James Q. Wilson
Recommended Resources for Teachers
To read the entire report in PDF format, please visit http://www.edexcellence.net/Sept11/September11.pdf
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Many thanks to "Brit Hume's Special Report" Fox News Network for having Mr. Finn as a guest.
If this tactic works to force schools to graduate plagerizers who fail a class and thus aren't eligible to graduate, and if it works to force a school to make some snotty brat captain of her cheerleading squad, I don't see why it wouldn't work for something that constitutes actual immoral activiities (and possibly a blatantly illegal overreach of the state's laws on just how far a school's faculty may indoctrinate kids) whose parents don't want any part of it.
If my slim experience with the public school system is any lesson, the principal will slander you or your child with some label or other, and be utterly incapable of recognizing the logic of your argument.
Out! Out!
I ain't goin' anywhere! :)
You know, that actually happened. With my eldest. After a year of what I came to recognize as intolerable treatment, I came to his courseroom, took him out of class, told him to clean out his locker, he wasn't coming back anymore. To the counselor who said, "You can't do that" I replied, "Watch me." I was scared to death. I'd never done anything that bold. Turns out, it was one of my best moments as a parent.
Really! That rocks, GVgirl!
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