[chapin2500]

"I think [a debate] would be great because then we'd prove him wrong and open up his opinion a little bit," Sarah Loeb, an ETHS sophomore, said Thursday."


Skulls full of mush.

[Phantom Lord]

When US History textbooks have longer sections on Madonna (the singer) than George Washington, I think Limbaugh is safe in his comments.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

When kids offer to 'debate' history they only demonstrate their ignorance. 'Debate' what of history? Inflated self-esteem run amok.

[Brett66]

somebody would think multiculturalism antithetical to American values

It places other cultures above American culture. I've seen nothing in the little twerp's comments that suggest otherwise.

[randog]

My money's on Rush.

[Pikamax]

>>>UN, NYTIMES and the BBC world news... all the markings of blame America first mentality.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0510/p11s02-legn.html

At Evanston, students tend to come from affluent backgrounds, and some are accustomed to discussing current events at home. Even so, many students say the global perspectives classes are having a profound effect on how they see the world.

In Mr. Becker's Middle East class - one of the more popular offerings - students take on a new identity when they begin the semester.

A teen can "become" a Kuwaiti oil magnate, a Lebanese student, or an Israeli settler - complete with a name and a profession. The student maintains that identity for a whole quarter.

"It pushes them to think outside themselves," says Becker, whose classroom is decorated with Middle Eastern pillows, rugs, and art. Most students sit on the floor during class; girls will sometimes borrow a head scarf to wear for a few days.

Rob Fiffer, a junior who took the Middle East course last year, had the role of a Palestinian militant. "I was pro-Israeli settlements," he says of his own political stance. "Now I realize things aren't so black and white."


"It's not surprising that the school has strong participation in Model United Nations, or that, long after their sophomore "global perspectives" year, some students talk about getting daily updates from The New York Times and BBC World News."

[G.Mason]

"It's funny to me that someone would say we don't know about World War II -- we live in a large Jewish community," said Jane Biliter, a senior."

That's the ticket Jane. WW11 was fought over the Jews.

The kids best set the ground rules on this "debate".

[holden]

Maybe he might be a little intimidated because I don't know

Well, there's one spokeskid, Sarah Anonymous (great work, SunTimes), who has proved she can't debate.

HF

[thoughtomator]

"It's funny to me that someone would say we don't know about World War II -- we live in a large Jewish community," said Jane Biliter, a senior.

In other words, this is not a typical school at all and in no way representative of public school students in general, but rather a community with a rare cultural focus on education.

I'd still like to find out how much they know about WW2 besides the Holocaust, though.

[demlosers]

Supt. Allan Alson said...."It's a shame he lets his conclusions determine his evidence."

Incorrect. That's what mush minds do.

[MinuteGal]

These offspring of Evanston's North Shore cultural elite snobs and limosine liberals are being cleverly trained not only to be multiculturalists but globalist one-worlders, Ivy-League entrants, dilettante socialists, do-gooders, aspiring NYT journalists and future CFR members.

As Carl Marx and the Hildebeest say "The village will indoctrinate the kids early. The parents won't know or won't care".

Leni

[wallcrawlr]

I'd be all for this. Rush would expose this total lack of knowledge public school kids have on History.

Going to school...can you remember anyone that cared about history (I did)...the mantra was, "why do I need to learn about the past".

He'd wipe the floor with them. Expose them Rush!!

[VRWCmember]

"Maybe he might be a little intimidated because I don't know his basis for saying we don't know anything," Sarah said. "But I think he might be interested if he wants to live up to his reputation and back up his ideas so he doesn't look stupid."

The arrogance of high school students who think that their little bit of data they have received from woefully inadequate textbooks makes them more informed than someone who has been around the block a few times is utterly amazing.

[whereasandsoforth]

So its big news when Limbaugh is thought to be "caught" being wrong about something. I thought Limbaugh was so full of lies and distortions and purposeful misleadings every day of his existence that it couldn't possibly be big news.

Often the left is caught in their own lies by things just like this. You don't demonize a man and brand him a perpetual liar that is wrong about everything and then turn around and make a news story out of one instance where they think they can REALLY prove him wrong. It highlights how the left lies about everything else associated with Limbaugh.

[dennisw]

"young skulls full of mush" ping

[Born Conservative]

[Bahbah]

I hope he does it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"All ETHS sophomores choose among several "global perspectives" courses covering the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Russia. In the Middle East class, for example, students adopt a new identity for the semester -- a Syrian baker or a medical student in Qatar -- and try to view what's transpiring in the region from that perspective."

(I've underlined my own emphasis, above).

My take is that as long as one does this, but all along maintains one perspective that America is still the greatest, there is nothing wrong with it.

Great training for the intelligence analysts and intelligence operatives of America's future, our high school students. Our enemies in Pyongyang, Beijing, Teheran, elsewhere etc. do the exact reverse.

However, given that the courses in the USA would by default--knowing our educational system in most cases--probably be taught with an anti-US bias/grudge by slanted, guilt-ridden anti-USA liberal teachers, it would be meaningless.

I am all for American high school students learning much more in the way of countries, world politics, languages, cultures, traveling to those nations, and becoming more sophisticated--if at the end of the day IT CAN BE PUT TO USE ON BEHALF OF THE INTERESTS OVERSEAS OF THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

[layman]

"It's not even worth responding to," said Aaron Hamilton, a senior

I agree with Aaron, although I'm sure I would enjoy some kind of an exchange whereby the kids could showcase their knowledge of U.S. history.

[bobsatwork]

Rush Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio show that Evanston Township High School students "don't know anything about World War II" and "they've probably never heard the name Adolf Hitler" because they're so focused on a multicultural curriculum. ....This entire article is based on these two out-of-context sentence fragments. Does anyone have the actual quote? Was he quoting the CSM article?