Posted on 03/11/2010 11:00:57 AM PST by Shellybenoit
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what else is new? This is why children shouldn’t be taught history out of textbooks. The internet is a far better teacher about history than the classroom.
You cannot expect anything else in our “socialist public school system”.....
From the Public Indoctrination Centers formally called public schools ...
John Paul II did some very good things, but he also did things that forever tarnished not only himself, but all of Catholicism.
Quietly forgetting him is the kindest thing that can be done for him.
Publishing houses choose their employees from universities and education factories, so why expect something different. IIRC, a California textbook at one time taught that Muslims were here before Columbus. There are mandated, week-long practices in various school districts across the country that have students ‘practice’ Islam, say prayers, study Islam, etc., in which students recite the Shahada every day.
Public schools are indoctrination facilities. Send a child there at your own risk. You want a kid to learn the truth, it won’t happen at a government run school.
On page 983 it says "both sides believed that they needed to stop the other side from extending its power, rather than a what it was, a battle between the Soviet side wanting to expand its communist philosophy across the world and the west trying to prevent the takeover."
Am I missing something here? I have no issue with that quote, which if I read the article correctly is supoposed to be an example of the published misinformation (other examples later in the article are better).
Interesting that there are no authors listed for that book on the book. It was written by mystery people.
He is not called John Paul the Great for nothing. Changed the course of history. No amount of anticatholic propaganda will ever change that.
Found the authors: ROGER B. BECK is Professor of African and World History at Eastern Illinois University; Linda Black is a student of “gender and world history,” at Texas A&M and Larry S. Krieger is “a published author of young adult books.” So, two writers with a PC axe to grind, and an author of books for children.
Nice innuendo there without source. IMO, it is very likely that the Catholic Church will eventually beatify Pope John Paul II as a Saint of the Church and formally as John Paul II the Great! (which he's already known as among 'serious' Catholics).
You are correct though, you may be kind and quietly forget him. Catholics would appreciate that.
The operative phrase here is both sides believed and I find nothing wrong with that description. This article is without merit, whatever shortcomings the book has.
A great non-politically corrected series of teaching books are: “What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second Grade Education”
And the writer has one for each grade.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Your-Second-Grader-Needs/dp/038531843X
Yep, flee Government Schools! As fast as you can! Do not subject your children to this brainwashing.
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What is wrong with the above?
GMTA!
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