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Talk With Your Students About Trayvon Martin
Education Week ^ | April 9, 2012 | Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Scott Weathers

Posted on 04/09/2012 9:32:21 AM PDT by Sopater

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Urging teachers to talk about this in the classrooms even if it doesn't have anything to do with the curricula?

Keeping this story "hot" in the minds of the public may be the biggest mistake that liberals make this year.

1 posted on 04/09/2012 9:32:28 AM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

Don’t attack strangers, children, and you won’t get shot.


2 posted on 04/09/2012 9:35:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
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Okay kids, this is real life. If you just walked away from trouble. Keep walking. Never turn around and go back at it.


3 posted on 04/09/2012 9:36:00 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sopater

They have to be kidding. If I were a teacher, I wouldn’t touch this topic with a 10-foot pole.


4 posted on 04/09/2012 9:36:21 AM PDT by susannah59
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I think my kids are fine without Trayvon being mentioned thank you very much.

Last thing that I want for a 50/50 white/black class to do is start screaming at each other over the incomplete “facts” that the media has been dishing out since March.


5 posted on 04/09/2012 9:37:50 AM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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This is not considered Activism.


6 posted on 04/09/2012 9:38:08 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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OK kids, would you rather learn math or stand around all talking at once in increasingly louder voices?

YAY!


7 posted on 04/09/2012 9:39:17 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Trayvon, global warming discussions, LGBTG classes, sensitivity training...oops, there's the bell..class dismissed. We'll get to readin’, writin and rithmatic sometime next month (maybe).
8 posted on 04/09/2012 9:40:00 AM PDT by JPG (Hold on tight; rough road ahead.)
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This is another example of why I laugh (to myself) when I hear other parents telling me their kids are going to a "good" public school.

This type of manipulative, lefty type stuff rains down like diarrhea every day from any number of sources - and it's all destined for their childrens' young minds.

Then we wonder why the electorate is mostly moron.

9 posted on 04/09/2012 9:40:16 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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Ugh! Thank goodness my kids have tests all week.


10 posted on 04/09/2012 9:40:34 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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You would probably be amazed, or sickened, by the number of people that get their political positions from their children via the schools.

The largest welfare program in America is the government day-care system - you may know it as the school system.

Most parents rightly assume that whatever benefits the teachers, benefits the schools, the children and themselves.

11 posted on 04/09/2012 9:40:56 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Typed using <FONT STYLE=SARCASM> unless otherwise noted)
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For the teachers that do this, how many will open with the words “rush to judgement”?


12 posted on 04/09/2012 9:40:56 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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Standing on the grocery check out line I could not help seeing the smiling face of 8 yr. old Trayvon on the cover of People magazine. It was classic MSM manipulation of the public opinion. Who would look at it if it had the most recent pictures from Twitter? Tomorrow, the report comes out from the SPD?


13 posted on 04/09/2012 9:41:08 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: susannah59

You don’t get it.

This is exact.y the kind of thing the educational establishment wants to spend time on. There’s no hard and fast criteria for correct or incorrect. It will spin the kids up on both sides. It will disrupt classrooms for a month at least, with any luck until June.

Anything, absolutely anything OTHER than actually teach match, science, English, or history....anything.


14 posted on 04/09/2012 9:42:25 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: massgopguy
Listening to some of Kenny Rogers better songs would be shorter, more memorable and serve the same purpose. The Gambler and Coward of the County are just two that come to mind.
15 posted on 04/09/2012 9:43:11 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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This plan backfired after the teacher brought it up as an assingment and my son was thus able to inform his classmates about the evidence we do have.

They are barking up the wrong tree if anybody in their classroom is aware of the actual evidence. This would provide the means for the TRUTH to actually get out there. All it would take is one person in every classroom who is exposed to sources outside the treasonous media.

And even worse for them, the violent rhetoric out of the New Black Panther Party is actually the fruit of a deliberate training effort chosen specifically by BARACK OBAMA in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama wants us to think he’s not associated with the violent Black Supremacist movement but he personally chose to fund and mandate the training of Chicago teachers in the Sub-Saharan Supremacy cult.

IOW, what we are seeing being done to George Zimmerman and the 50-year-old white man who was assaulted by Black youths with a hammer.... is the oak resulting from the acorn BARACK OBAMA deliberately and specifically planted.

Read the initial post and at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2869819/posts?page=47#47 and following for more details.

We need the kids in our classrooms to know this information and to bring it up when the teachers address Trayvon. This could be a huge gift to all those who seek to get the truth out to people who only otherwise hear from the treasonous media.


16 posted on 04/09/2012 9:43:39 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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And many of the facts of the case are indeed still uncertain.

So, open your mouth and state a case; because you don't have a FREAKIN' idea what you are babbling about.

Only a Libtard would go off and lecture students about a case - without any facts to back them up. They did it with Global Warming, why not this too?

And then Teachers wonder why they are among the least repected professionals in the job market .....

17 posted on 04/09/2012 9:47:59 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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Yes....
Tell them how Bill Cosby and others would prefer that George had been beaten to death, rather than being able to defend himself against his attacker.


18 posted on 04/09/2012 9:48:53 AM PDT by G Larry (We are NOT obliged to carry the snake in our pocket and then dismiss the bites as natural behavior.)
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Yes connect the episode to history like Joseph Goebbels and propaganda, media and information manipulation - Creating cultural myths to advance totalitarian ends.


19 posted on 04/09/2012 9:52:16 AM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

What they think is their strength is actually a huge vulnerability. Because if there is even one student in each classroom who knows the facts and is willing to speak them, there will be exponentially more kids exposed to those facts who otherwise would only hear the lies of the media.

If they open up the subject, they open up every kid in that classroom to actually hear some real facts.

We need to make sure our high-schoolers are informed and equipped to speak out when their teachers bring this up. I’ve been praying for a way to access the people who are never exposed to truth. I had been thinking maybe Jesse Jackson could be persuaded to do the decent thing, but that isn’t happening. Now this. If the teachers open up this discussion in every classroom we have access to the illiterate masses (both children and their parents) like never before. We just need to be prepared to use this opportunity.

What they need to be prepared to bring up is not just the evidence that this was indeed a shooting in self-defense as the evidence suggests, but that the response of the race pimps including the New Black Panther Party is VIOLENT, which is exactly the seed that Obama himself planted through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and fits right in with the NBPP’s ties to the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which is also an ally to the Mexican drug cartels that Eric Holder is arming with non-trackable guns.

Read the initial post and comments starting at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2869819/posts?page=47#47 for more info and documentation of this.


20 posted on 04/09/2012 9:53:58 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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