Oh yes, a LOT of trouble finding that?
Way to go, educators! Fill your students up with left wing junk.
Like the meaning of the word is? Making our children into little Clintons who can twist words to mean whatever they choose.
"Already, some textbooks refer to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, without using the word 'terrorist.'...Is terrorism something that occurs only by someone from a foreign country? Or were there acts of terrorism committed before 9-11? They have to understand the definition of the word and how it's being used."
I believe it was Andrew McCarthy, in a recent National Review piece, who quoted Justice Jackson in stating that rights granted in the United States Constitution do not amount to a suicide pact.
Liberals must somehow disagree, though, because they pursue political correctness above all else, even their own safety and that of their children. Yes, don't 'offend' or 'violate' anyone's rights, even if we must slit our own throats to prevent it.
Do these people really hate themselves, their lives, their country and their neighbors so much? Or is it some white liberal guilt trip? I really don't care...I'm just sick of it, especially when it is forcefed to children.
Sorry I'm cranky. I just read that Cindy Sheehan's bunch of drooling moonbats is coming up here this week. On the brighter side, they are forecasting pouring rain (Ophelia) that day. Thank you, God.
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
[emphaisis added]
Source:
Microfilm: California State University at San Jose Clark Library, Government Floor Phone (408)924-2770 Microfilm Call Number: J 11 .R5 Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix Pages A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12
The quote starts on page 259. Skousen, W. Cleon. Naked Communist, Salt Lake City, Utah: Ensign Publishing Co. C. 1961 , 9th edition July 1961.
I can sympathize with this guy. I had the same problem during my student teaching internship. I think my teacher supervisor missed part of my lecture on bias, though.
I told the kids that I had opinons, too, just like they did. I also told them to remember the old saying about opinions. They're like rectums. Everyone's got one, and most of them stink. (got a laugh with that paraphrase, too.) I also told them to check out the facts, and to keep checking them, because anyone with any sense will change his or her opinions given enough facts. I was also careful to preface any prounoucement of mine with "this is my personal opinion" and usually told them something of how I'd come to have that opinion.
First lesson I taught, I was teaching about the meaning of the Constitution. I got them their own copies, and told them not to take my word for what it said, but to read it themselves, and make up their own minds. Same advice my stepfather gave me about religion, that was.
The College Board, who creates the AP courses, is starting to audit them to assure consistent quality.
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,3045,151-165-0-46361,00.html
Some colleges that used to, no longer regard AP courses as indicators of success or college-level achievement, and don't grant college credit for them anymore.
Here's the outline and sample exam questions for the AP Government course:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/repository/05828apcoursdescgopo0_4321.pdf
Already, some textbooks refer to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, without using the word "terrorist."
I never curse in public, but sometimes do when I am alone, under my breath. I'm trying to stop.
This is not helping.