I think it unfair to children that anyone lets this guy be a teacher. What a pathetic loser who has no appreciation for this country.
That teacher should be extracted by the scruff of the neck. Go to any used bookstore. Get any U.S. History book written before 1960.
Get your school board involved, but start with the principal. In most states, principals are supposed to sign off on at least the syllabus, if not the lesson plans.
Request a meeting with the principal and air your concerns, then follow up with an email, or better, a letter with copies to the Superintendent.
Don’t raise your voice, and don’t get passionate, but firmly provide your alternative suggested curriculum. It’s likely to be less extreme than Lefty’s is, and you’ve documented the wingnut’s behavior.
Get like-minded parents to do the same. Principal’s have zero power, but parents do. Written letters in files, especially if the beef is well-reasoned and presented fairly, give the principal leverage to move the union, which is your main problem.
Welcome to Free Republic.
Don't post much, do you? ;-)
(I'd have said MUCH WORSE to the teacher.)
The U.S. has made progress since then; and has also freed people across the world from oppression.
What has, say, France done, besides the Terror and the Vichy government in WW II?
Or the great waves of freedom in Russia, China, and Cambodia...?
(Ask the teacher, quoting from The Population Bomb, what should be done about India. Only tell them the source till later. Or do the same with the Unabomber Manifesto.)
Cheers!
Welcome to Free Republic.
Don't post much, do you? ;-)
(I'd have said MUCH WORSE to the teacher.)
The U.S. has made progress since then; and has also freed people across the world from oppression.
What has, say, France done, besides the Terror and the Vichy government in WW II?
Or the great waves of freedom in Russia, China, and Cambodia...?
(Ask the teacher, quoting from The Population Bomb, what should be done about India. Only tell them the source till later. Or do the same with the Unabomber Manifesto.)
Cheers!
you want to connect with illustrious Freeper LS, who not only is a distinguished historian and professor, but has written a variety of books that could teach this dim-with “teacher” a great deal.
if you check out his home page and his posts you will find plenty of info, and I’m sure if you post to him he will be very helpful in reply b/c he has done a huge amount to enhance historical, political, and all kinds of discussions on FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~ls/
http://www.patriotshistoryusa.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-United-States-Columbuss/dp/1595230017
[no, I’m not his agent and I don’t even know the man except what I see of his posts and writings, but he’s far superior to most of the politically correct ninnies who pretend to teach “history” at any level]
Tell the teacher how unfair you think it is that your son is not teaching the class.
“If you are in the library and want to read France's Constitution, you'll have to look in the periodicals section.”
Margaret Thatcher
Ping for later
I think you are trolling, you have three posts during your three months here, all three are threads, two are vanities on the same subject, posted tonight, 30 minutes apart, with two different titles and the third one was a vanity youtube thread.
You have never responded to anyone.
Its pretty clear to me that the teacher never bothered to read or understand the product of the Constitutional Convention. He missed out on learning that the constitution they created ensured the future freedom of all of the groups he lamented by ensuring that the majority could never oppress the smallest minority, the individual.
I’m sorry I don’t have a kid at the school. I would have printed and distributed stories about how whites are treated under Mugabe, then ask the teacher why he doesn’t give racist black leaders equal time.
Starting at about grade three sounds about right.
Thank you for standing up to the jerk. We’re dealing with much worse in Minnesota: to gain teaching certification, our candidates will now have to accept and internalize what a terrible people and nation we have been, are, and always will be. “I’ve never killed a man, but I have read several obituaries with great pleasure.” [Source temporarily mislaid.]
This is like criticizing the Sumerians for not writing in plain English.
| He (the teacher) distributed a study guide about how unfair it was that the founding fathers at the Constitutional Convention did not include African Americans, Native Americans, women and poor people. I told this to my 11-year-old daughter, and her concise common-sense response, spoken like a true Conservative tween, was: "Life's not fair." LOL. Do you know of any history books written for middle school aged children that are written without a PC agenda? There are many good non-PC books of the era, but might I recommend: You can see the WHOLE open-source text on the above Google Books link, and even download it as a Acrobat PDF file. I prefer the 1856 version, as it is written in the manner of the day, with good sketched photos, and is unaltered. The author obtained first-hand accounts via sources of the era and personal interviews, reporting on events that occurred during the years of the American Revolution. We know of this book because a few months ago, my daughter and I had to do a school research project on the patriot Hannah Hunter Hendee, whose story can be found on pages 204-210 of the book. If you wish to share this with your son — with MY daughter's permission — here's the paper she wrote about the heroine Hannah Hunter Hendee, who was only 27 years old at the time in 1780:
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Zap him !
If he’s a Social Studies teacher he should know history and accept and present it as it was without judgement.
If he’s allowed by the school to determine the mindset of his students, go to the School Board, take everyone you know, and demand he and the Principle who allowed him to spew personal bias be fired for teaching “biased revisionist” history. Accept and teach the actual climate of that history as it “was” or be fired for incompetence.
He has no right to determine right and wrong history particularly when he didn’t live in that era.
Another loser who is preying on children.
Didn’t include Native Americans?
Does this teacher not realize the tribes were *sovereign nations* at this date? The colonies made treaties with them as a matter of foreign policy. She might as well wonder why no Canadians or Mexicans were in the Convention.
After emailing my son’s teacher about how I felt about the study guide he distributed about how I disagreed about the use of the word unfair, this was the teacher’s email response. Note the spelling and grammatical errors. lol This is the garbage that our nation’s youth is being fed.
“We talked as a class how mostly the rich received formal education after grade school. Some children did not recieve any education at all until the mid 1800’s, when formal eduation took hold. The reason why I use the term unfair is because the delegates created a representative democracy, yet didn’t include all they were representing. We talked about why they wouldn’t include the genral masses in the convention, and most children agreed that they wouldn’t have included them either because they were not informed or educated. We linked this with the creation of the electoral college because the founding fathers were very leery of letting an uneducated public choose the President. I hope Tim, understood the education piece, I can clear it up in our next discussion too, because maybe some other kids are unclear in it as well.
If you have any other questions, please let me know”