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[utherdoul]

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.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

You cannot expect anything else in our “socialist public school system”.....

[highlander_UW]

Liberals are showing to all the world why government should have no place in education.

[SkyDancer]

From the Public Indoctrination Centers formally called public schools ...

[MrEdd]

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.

[combat_boots]

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.

[DJ MacWoW]

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.

[Michael.SF.]

From the link we have:

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).

[La Lydia]

Interesting that there are no authors listed for that book on the book. It was written by mystery people.

[La Lydia]

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.

[Misterioso]

It sets up the Cold War period with the mistaken explanation that both sides were aggressors. 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."

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.

[NavyCanDo]

Lesson here is for you as a parent to teach them at home what they will not be getting at school. I do after-schooling with my second grader.

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

[avacado]

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."

What is wrong with the above?

[lormand]

We live in a very Conservative part of a Conservative State (Texas). My wife teaches at a school named Ronald Reagan Elementary, and my two kids also go there. Her School actively teaches about Ronald Reagan. We (citizens of Cedar Park) also have a BLVD named for Ronald Reagan.

...works for me!

[NavyCanDo]

How to Raise an American:
1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country

http://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-American-Activities-Country/dp/030733922X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268335519&sr=1-1#noop

[Le Chien Rouge]

The left abhor Ronald Reagan and John Paul II for the simple fact they looked the USSR in the eye and dared to call it what it always was:

AN EVIL EMPIRE

Two of the 20th centuries greatest men.

[kittykat77]

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."

Yid With Lid: You have a wandering quotation mark. I think you meant to put the close quotation mark after power, rather than the takeover. Otherwise you're not saying what you think you're saying.... Plus, you probably want to delete that extraneous a too.

[NavyCanDo]

It does not end with the history books. Take a look what math is being taught in most states now.

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI

My second grader’s school district has adopted the “Everyday Mathematics” program shown in this video. It is as bad as the lady is saying, even at the second grade level. My wife with a Bachelors degree and good grades, has a very difficult time helping him with the homework, because quite frankly this crap is hard to understand.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Though it's parenthetical to the topic of Reagan and the Pope being misportrayed and their accomplishments buried, I'm surprised it got past The Lid that the cover graphic of his son's textbook depicts that monument to bloodthirsty Muslim conquest, the Taj Mahal: