Posted on 07/02/2005 8:30:16 PM PDT by CHARLITE
I bet half the people voted for Samuel adams because its "Always a good decision!"
bump!
I can't believe these people are just now noticing that the American education system is CRAP!!
Children are not taught about America - unless it to demean it and trash it.
Children are not taught about elections, voting, campaigns, how govt works.
WHY?? Because you can't FOOL AN INFORMED ELECTORATE.
If you don't know where you've been you won't know where you are going. So we repeat the same mistakes over and over again, hoping to finally get it RIGHT!
Schools in many areas are very busy teaching classes about how to put a condom on a banana, how to make change and balance a checkbook, how to appreciate diversity, third world culture, etc. ad nauseum, EVERYTHING BUT AMERICAN HISTORY.
Try submitting THIS post on National Public Radio! Some people still prefer the Pink Panther movies over an intellectual academic piece that makes them THINK. Good post.
He felt it the duty of the White Southerner to prepare the slaves for freedom. Unlike Lincoln who considered Blacks inherently inferior, and saw shipping them out of America as a solution, Davis saw a day when the races would be equal. Got that? Equal! He was possibly the most progressive thinker of his day in regards to slavery and the conditions of the races.
There is even more to Daviss character that must be told though. He is the only, American President ever to adopt a Black child into his family! What is that? You ask. In 1864, his wife Varina Davis saw a young slave being beaten by his abusive owner. She stopped her carriage, saved the child and soon he was part of the Davis family. Jim Limber, the boy who became the greatest evidence of Daviss compassion and love for all Southerners has, of course been whitewashed from history. Frankly a Black slave being adopted by the evil Confederate President does not fit the script politically correct historians want to teach us.
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If this whack-job wants to compare somebody from that era with Hitler, why don't they try Abraham Lincoln? He sure didn't tolerate antiwar opinions during the War Between the States. He shut down numerous newspapers that disagreed with him. He tried to have a Supreme Court justice arrested. He suspended Habeas Corpus (which was unconstitutional because that's Congress's job). One of his generals, William Tecumseh Sherman, razed an American city (Atlanta). I even heard that there was a CONCENTRATION CAMP somewhere in Maryland for confederates (Point Lookout?).
OK, I know it's absurd to compare Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler, but unless Jefferson Davis was a tyrant himself, I think Lincoln would come closer.
There is even more to Daviss character that must be told though. He is the only, American President ever to adopt a Black child into his family! What is that? You ask. In 1864, his wife Varina Davis saw a young slave being beaten by his abusive owner. She stopped her carriage, saved the child and soon he was part of the Davis family. Jim Limber, the boy who became the greatest evidence of Daviss compassion and love for all Southerners has, of course been whitewashed from history. Frankly a Black slave being adopted by the evil Confederate President does not fit the script politically correct historians want to teach us.
See? See? And here the Union and the Confederacy could have co-existed peacefully, and perhaps one day in the future, rejoined as one country. Instead, we had to have the tyrant Lincoln conquering the southern states and assuring us generations of resentful southerners. If anyone deserves reparations, it's them.
Watch out. I'm sure the "confederate sympathizers are traitors" crowd will be along at any time, at which point I shall post my "Aw Jeez not this shit again!" picture.
Speaking as a recent high school graduate, I've never been taught how to put a condom on a banana, or how to appreciate diversity or the most foreign, bizarre cultures. I WAS taught to write a check--in 6th grade. Never ran into that afterwards.
Meanwhile, I was required to take four English classes, three mathematics classes, a government class, an American history class, two foreign language classes, and a few other such academic requirements that I've already forgotten due to lack of interest.
The problem with the public school system isn't a PC curriculum, it's a lack of interest on the part of the students. The Constitutional Convention is boring, and besides, half the students are text messaging the other half.
Take away the students' justification for thinking "I don't need to know that! When will I ever use that information?" and you'll see public education improve.
I was speaking of many California schools, don't know where you went to school. You're right, though, many students just aren't interested in learning. Too many distractions, I guess, and lack of interest by parents in what their kids are learning (or not learning).
I went to the largest high school in Florida: 6000+ students on two sites. The NEA and other groups likely have higher influences in California, but I don't think they've permeated the curriculum to the extent that it's become as bad as most FReepers seem to think it is.
I can think of two methods, one of which I went through personally, that would help quite a bit.
One: a priveleges and rewards system. If your kid gets a B on that Pre-Calculus test, he gets to borrow the car for the weekend. Your kid utterly failed a history test? Take away their cell phone.
Two: a part-time job. This is what my parents did with me. 20 hours a week goes a long way to making school a preferable option to menial jobs for the rest of their lives.
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