Multi-Cultural Studies in public school (vanity)

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[everlast]

I attended high school 20 years ago in Ohio. My school had a social studies class called Multi-Cultural Studies which taught in-depth about the way in which all minorities in the U.S. were discriminated by evil... you get the idea.

*** My question to all, just out of curiosity, is: Did anyone else have this class or one similar? ***

[rovenstinez]

50 years ago, CAUSE and CONSEQUENCE was taught in classroom, that if societies chose to make poor choices...that it would lead to the obvious result of unwanted responses. No one takes personal responsibility much anymore for anything. It is always someone elses FAULT, and the great fixer of all societies ills is the Government. Bring it on.

[oblomov]

It was called Social Studies or History at my school, but of course I had to make a great personal effort later to actually learn about social issues and history, since neither was taught in these classes.

[allmost]

I had a social studies class with a leftist who turned the curriculum into pretty much what you describe. We went on a lot of field trips though and he was clearly a space cadet so I don't think much harm was done.

[everlast]

This is the Lefty’s indoctrination of the young, who are blank slates. I actually bought into this crap at the time. Okay, I'm an Eeyore. I'm voting Mac... but, really even if he wins, I fear America is too far gone already.

[dblshot]

In 1985 I spent 16 weeks, 5 days a week, 8 hours+ a day at the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, formerly Race Relations Institute, now Human Relations Institute. You have know idea the size of the chip on the shoulders of the minority staff members whose mission in life was to make us white guys understand their righteous pain. Also I was told I was too masculine by an obviously gay Navy Chief because my androgyny scale was skewed to far toward male traits. I will say that most of my minority classmates thought it was a crock too. Your tax dollars at work.

[wintertime]

As the former KGB spy said the “demoratlization” stage is nearly complete. The next stage is destablization.

Marxism is our nation's **most** serious threat. Schools are the Marxists most important weapon.

The Cold War never ended. So...What are conservatives going to do about it?

If you haven't seen the video here is the link:

http://www.bafweb.com/2007/09/26/yuri-bezmenov-les-idiots-utiles-du-socialisme/

[RU88]

Graduated from a Catholic high school in 1980. Don’t believe that I ever heard the word “multicultural” mentioned at my high school.

[reaganaut1]

A bit off-topic, but my son, a 1st grader, does not understand that he lives in the

STATE called Massachusetts and the
COUNTRY called the United States of America

He gets town, state, and country mixed up. Can someone, maybe a homeschooler, recommend a geography/civics/history curriculum for the early elementary grades? I don’t think I can trust the schools to teach these subjects properly.

[Tainan]

High Skull 40(gasp! class of ‘68)yrs ago in Ohio....multi-cultural was not even a word.

[ChetNavVet]

For me, A product of the Chicago public school system, gosh, where to start...
Multi-Cultural was not the buzz word it is today. Nevertheless, I distinctly remember the little that was oficially taught at my school as being less about race and more about self value, it was more about a socialistic set of values. As I recollect, a non-graded “questionare” about an eskimo family had a grand parent type figure named Nanook, she was old, frail and of “supposedly” zero value. The story, as I remember it, went something like this: Hunting was very poor that season, Should we (the parents of Nanook’s grandchildren) not be more concerned about feeding the kids and thus make the harsh decision of pushing Nanook out of the igloo to die?

Even at the early age of 10 or 12, (or whatever) I senced or reasond that the questions were “just not right”, I raised my hand in class, and when my teacher came to me, I said that Nanook was of “at least” of potential value, She (can) teach the kids, She (can) look after them, while the parents were out hunting. I, in a little kid’s uderstanding I did my best at telling the teacher that I thought that this little exercise was wrong, in many ways. Oh and just in case you would be thinking I was a whimp, No No NO I distincly remember making a “ruckus” in the clasroom about “My Questions”. about this Socilistic crap.

Fast forward ten or so years into the future. My big question is “Why is it that every student that writes someting about Dr. Martin Luther King - even if badly written - receievs praise? I went through a phase of thinking that ALL OF IT WAS CRAP, I digress now, being much wiser, I now see that although a person can write about DRMLKJR, might be dumb, and that for some folk it was an easy “A”. ME? I’m immune now. I don’t feel much about Dr King. I belive in his (true intent) and content don’t get me wrong, but after being assaulted (SP)by it. for like most of my (0-21) life, being constntly remindid about certain stuff, and how I’m supposed to feel “bad”.
I investigated my Geneoligy to an extent, I will never apoligize for what certian ancestors did. WW1 and stuff... (RE mosly europe) And I only needed to go back 70 years. And yet at the same time, I’m very proud of others. I’m done.

No thank you. Ive got enough on my plate.