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To: LS
2 posted on
03/11/2010 11:02:35 AM PST by
mnehring
To: Shellybenoit
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.
3 posted on
03/11/2010 11:03:48 AM PST by
utherdoul
To: Shellybenoit
You cannot expect anything else in our “socialist public school system”.....
To: Shellybenoit
Liberals are showing to all the world why government should have no place in education.
5 posted on
03/11/2010 11:05:57 AM PST by
highlander_UW
(Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
To: Shellybenoit
From the Public Indoctrination Centers formally called public schools ...
6 posted on
03/11/2010 11:06:18 AM PST by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
To: Shellybenoit
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.
7 posted on
03/11/2010 11:06:35 AM PST by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Shellybenoit
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.
8 posted on
03/11/2010 11:07:24 AM PST by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
To: Shellybenoit
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.
9 posted on
03/11/2010 11:07:53 AM PST by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: Shellybenoit
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).
10 posted on
03/11/2010 11:09:40 AM PST by
Michael.SF.
(At least Hitler got the Olympics for Germany)
To: Shellybenoit
Interesting that there are no authors listed for that book on the book. It was written by mystery people.
11 posted on
03/11/2010 11:13:08 AM PST by
La Lydia
To: Shellybenoit
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.
13 posted on
03/11/2010 11:19:48 AM PST by
La Lydia
To: Shellybenoit
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.
15 posted on
03/11/2010 11:21:32 AM PST by
Misterioso
(To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. -- Ayn Rand)
To: Shellybenoit
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
16 posted on
03/11/2010 11:21:52 AM PST by
NavyCanDo
(Palin in 2012 will see the Potomac from her House)
To: Shellybenoit
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?
19 posted on
03/11/2010 11:23:10 AM PST by
avacado
To: Shellybenoit
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!
21 posted on
03/11/2010 11:24:31 AM PST by
lormand
(Ron Paul 2012 - Suicide in our time)
To: Shellybenoit
22 posted on
03/11/2010 11:27:41 AM PST by
NavyCanDo
(Palin in 2012 will see the Potomac from her House)
To: Shellybenoit
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.
To: Shellybenoit
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.
To: Shellybenoit
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 graders 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.
25 posted on
03/11/2010 11:34:20 AM PST by
NavyCanDo
(Palin in 2012 will see the Potomac from her House)
To: Shellybenoit
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:
26 posted on
03/11/2010 11:37:17 AM PST by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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