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AP courses are not required. Don’t take them.
It’s dumbing down of the education system. They’ve got to be able to make it so dummies can pass the courses.
Why I remind my fellow Michiganders to make a point of voting for university boards of regents and directors. These are easy wins for the right if only we vote for them.
Tea partier Dr Rob Steele is running for university of Michigan board of regents again and we need to put him over the top.
Stupid teachers are teaching stupid curriculum.
My kids learned more about WWII from their grandmother than they ever did from their teachers.
getting rid of those slaveholding terrorists.
I watched this summers Last Comic Standing one comedian had this riff.
Founding fathers return to the WH.
The media asks them about global warming and they say, never mind, what’s this about women voting.
Obama walks in and they say Is that Jefferson’s kid?
Funny the way he delivered it.
“Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History test/curriculum”
OK, I don’t really understand the nature of this.
I remember “AP” CLASSES, which I assumed was simply because one excelled in one’s previous class, so the administrators (school, not College Board) bumped one up. Just as if one excelled in math, one could take Calculus instead of just Trigonometry. It was a school judgement call, I thought.
I know all about SAT but isn’t that different completely from an “AP test”?
People that don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. We are walking in the footsteps of Great Britain living under tyrrany once again as it existed hundreds of years ago only with technology and more cultural diversity...
So the dumbing down of America continues. No wonder the youngsters voted to put an incompetent moron in the White House. They did it to impress their MARXIST and COMMUNIST “perfesors”.
Replaced by victimization, grievance, and axe-grinding.
May they rot in their own bitterness.
Commies hate that America helped the USSR crumble.
“The new College Board U.S. history defines the USA as a racist, genocidal, imperialist nation. Their whole point is that America is bad so of course they leave America’s heroes out.”
But. . .but. . .but. . .these same board members endorse/support illegal aliens sneaking their way in to the US, sneaking in to find a better life. . .wait. . .talk about cognizant dissonance.
REALITY CHECK A recent TV news segmnt chronicled the story of an "impoverished" Spanglish speaking immigrant who paid thousands to have her son coached to take the tests....but he was so stupid, he still couldnt pass them. That's when the changes were made---to accomodate stupid latinos---replacing American history w/ strange Third World teachings.
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The ding-a-ling in the WH is turning our schools into refugee camps........w/ calculated plans to inculcate the savage illiterates w/ hate-America, anti-American ideology.
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TALKING POINTS Some 10 years back, Texas schools started using Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints. Mexican textbooks falsified US history, and proselytized students w/ blood-thirsty La Raza savagery. Teaching was little more than brainwashing---inculcating students w/ separatist, latino supremacy idealogy.
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Obama's hate-America idealogy has been adopted by the College Board---which defines U.S. history as a racist, genocidal, imperialist nation.....the point being that "America is so bad." they must eradicate all mention of its founders and other American heroes.
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ACTION NOWSpread the word----no candidate gets your vote if they do not confront this outrageous move by the College Board---an affront to every American.
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“College Board Erases the Founding Fathers”
I was curious what caused the change so i did a little googling. Found the cause.
Amazing how one unelected, activist cockroach can so easily alter our culture and value system.
Will there be any resistance to this? Will any politician on our side shine a spotlight on this marxist infested organization?
Let’s erase the College Board.
The so-called "progressive" agenda, for decades, has included a determined effort to replace the founding concept of Creator-endowed individual rights, liberty and laws to protect that liberty with their own false concept of imperfect persons in government assuming the role of the "Supreme Being."
The electorate must become educated to these competing ideas and rediscover America's Founding principles, which can enable them to recognize which are true ideas of liberty, and which are counterfeit ideas of tyranny. That is not easy.
In 2008, Michael Ledeen, on another subject altogether, wrote of the degree to which Americans have been "dumbed down" on some basic ideas underlying our freedom:
Ledeen said, "Our educational system has long since banished religion from its texts, and an amazing number of Americans are intellectually unprepared for a discussion in which religion is the central organizing principle."
In the Pope's speech in Germany a few years ago, he observed:
"A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures."
Ledeen put his finger on a problem that stifles meaningful dialogue and debate in America on a number of subjects--as is now exhibited in the discussion on the causes and solutions to acts of violence such as that in Newtown. Censors [disguised as "protectors" (the Radical Left's ACLU, NEA, education bureaucracies, and now the College Board, etc., etc.)] have imposed their limited understanding of liberty upon generations of school children.
From America's founding to the 1950's, ideas derived from religious literature were included in textbooks, through the poetry and prose used to teach children to read and to identify with their world and their country.
Suddenly, those ideas began to disappear from textbooks, until now, faceless, mindless copy editors sit in cubicles in the nation's textbook publishing companies, instructed by their supervisors to remove mere words that refer to family, to the Divine, and to any of the ancient ideas that have sustained intelligent discourse for centuries.
Now, it is the ACLU which accuses middle Americans of "censorship" if they object to books, films, etc., that offend their sensibilities and undermine the character training of their young. Sadly, many of those books and films are themselves products of the minds that have been robbed of exposure to wisdom literature in the nation's schools and universities.
Back in 1876, a Black Minister and Ohio State Legislator, Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, delivered the "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon," celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Urbana, Ohio. The Sermon can be read online at the American Memory Section of the LOC, in the African-American Collection. Quoted below is a relatively brief excerpt from that Sermon's conclusion. In it Rev. Arnett warned about a movement among what he referred to as, "liberals," to remove the ideas underlying America's founding documents. See if you don't recognize those ideas from what you have observed in recent years:
(Excerpt) "The Danger to our Country."Now that our national glory and grandeur is principally derived from the position the fathers took on the great questions of right and wrong, and the career of this nation has been unparalleled in the history of the past, now there are those who are demanding the tearing down the strength of our national fabric. They may not intend to tear it down, but just as sure as they have their way, just that sure will they undermine our superstructure and cause the greatest calamity of the age. What are the demands of this party of men? Just look at it and examine it for yourselves, and see if you are willing that they shall have their way; or will you still assist in keeping the ship of state in the hands of the same crew and run her by the old gospel chart! But ye men who think there is no danger listen to the demands of the Liberals as they choose to call themselves:
"'Organize! Liberals of America! The hour for action has arrived. The cause of freedom calls upon us to combine our strength, our zeal, our efforts. These are The Demands of Liberalism:"'1. We demand that churches and other ecclesiastical property shall no longer be exempt from just taxation.
"'2. We demand that the employment of chaplains in Congress, in State Legislatures, in the navy and militia, and in prisons, asylums, and all other institutions supported by public money, shall be discontinued.
"'3. We demand that all public appropriations for sectarian educational and charitable institutions shall cease.
"'4. We demand that all religious services now sustained by the government shall be abolished; and especially that the use of the Bible in the public schools, whether ostensibly as a text-book or avowedly as a book of religious worship, shall be prohibited.
"'5. We demand that the appointment, by the President of the United States or by the Governors of the various States, of all religious festivals and fasts shall wholly cease.
"'6. We demand that the judicial oath in the courts and in all other departments of the government shall be abolished, and that simple affirmation under the pains and penalties of perjury shall be established in its stead.
"'7. We demand that all laws directly or indirectly enforcing the observance of Sunday as the Sabbath shall be repealed.
"'8. We demand that all laws looking to the enforcement of “Christian” morality shall be abrogated, and that all laws shall be conformed to the requirements of natural morality, equal rights, and impartial liberty.
"'9. We demand that not only in the Constitution of the United States and of the several States, but also in the practical administration of the same, no privilege or advantage shall be conceded to Christianity or any other special religion; that our entire political system shall be founded and administered on a purely secular basis; and that whatever changes shall prove necessary to this end shall be consistently, unflinchingly, and promptly made.'
"'Let us boldly and with high purpose meet the duty of the hour.'
"Now we must not think that we have nothing to do in this great work, for the men who are at the head of this movement are men of culture and intelligence, and many of them are men of influence. They are led by that thinker and scholar, F. E. Abbott, than whom I know but few men who has a smoother pen, or who is his equal on the battle-field of thought. He says in an address on the duty of his leagues:
"'My answer may be a negative one to all who see nothing positive in the idea of liberty. The conviction I refer to is this: that, regarded as a theological system, Christianity is Superstition, and, regarded as an organized institution, Christianity is Slavery. The purpose I refer to is this: that, whether regarded as theological system, Christianity shall wholly cease to exercise influence in political matters. Although the national Constitution is strictly secular and non-Christian, there are many things in the practical administration of the government which violate its spirit, and constitute a virtual recognition of Christianity as the national religion. These violations are very dangerous; they are on the increase; they more and more give Christianity a practical hold upon the government; they directly tend to strengthen the influence of Christianity over the people, and to fortify it both as a theology and a church; and they are therefore justly viewed with growing indignation by liberals. Not unreasonably are they looked upon as paving the way to a formidable effort to carry the Christian Amendment to the Constitution; and the liberals are beginning to see that they must extinguish the conflagration in its commencement. I believe all this myself, with more intense conviction every day; and therefore I appeal frankly to the people to begin now to lay the foundations of a great National Party of Freedom. It is not a moment too soon. If the liberals are wise, they will see the facts as they are, and act accordingly. Not with hostility, bitterness, defiance, or anger but rather with love to all men and high faith in the beneficence of consistently republican institutions, do I urge them most earnestly to begin the work at once.'
"He acknowledges that this is a religious nation and wants all men to assist him in eliminating the grand old granite principles from the framework of our national union. Will you do it freeman; will we sell the temple reared at the cost of so much precious blood and treasure? These men would have us turn back the hands on the clock of our national progress, and stay the shadow on the dial plate of our christian civilization; they would have us call a retreat to the soldiers in the army of Christ; the banner of the cross they would have us haul down, and reverse the engines of war against sin and crime; the songs of Zion they would turn into discord, and for the harmony and the melody of the sons of God, they would give us general confusion; they would have us chain the forces of virtue and unloose the elements of vice; they would have the nation loose its moorings from the Lord of truth and experience and commit interest, morally, socially; religiously and politically to the unsafe and unreliable human reason; they would discharge God and his crew and run the ship of State by the light of reason, which has always been but a dim taper in the world, and all the foot-prints it has left are marked with the blood of men, women and children. No nation is safe when left alone with reason.
"But we have no notion of giving up the contest without a struggle or a battle. We are aware that there is a great commotion in the world of thought. Religion and science are at arms length contending with all their forces for the mastery. Faith and unbelief are fighting their old battles over again, everything that can be shaken is shaking. The foundations of belief are assaulted by the army of science and men are changing their opinions. New and starting theories are promulgated to the world; old truths are putting on new garbs. Error is dressing in the latest style, wrong is secured by the unholy alliances, changes in men and things, revolution in church and state, Empires are crumbling, Kingdoms tottering; everywhere the change is seen. In the social circle, in the school house, in the pulpit and in the pews. But amid all the changes are revolutions their are some things that are unchangeable, unmovable and enduring. The forces that underline the vital power of Christianity are the same yesterday, to-day, to-morrow and forever more. They are like their God, who is omnipotent, immovable and eternal, and everywhere truth has marched it has left its moccasin tracks." - (End of Excerpt from "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to Any People")
So said Rev. Benjamin Arnett in 1876. Where is the leader who will declare these things today? His theme was "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to Any People." Might such outspoken thoughts not enlighten the minds of Americans today as they discuss the topic of this thread?
Well, that’s one way to raise the scores across the board since the students aren’t taught about them or the Constitution.
Once they get rid of the “Redskins”, they’re going to go after the “Washington” (He owned slaves).
The American Constitution has been pretty much abrogated..
WHY NOT!.. a partially trashed Republic is not thorough..
and the public has been brain washed to an awful state..
Public apathy is very strong..
BUT..... the sheeple could STAMPEDE..
Obama has never seen a STAMPEDE... wolves could get trampled.. -OR- WORSE...