Posted on 09/12/2007 2:19:26 AM PDT by Stoat
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Szwaja asks students if U.S. planned 9-11 attacks Posted by David Postman at 06:57 PM Seattle City Council candidate Joe Szwaja is teaching a high school class that asks if the United States helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. Szwaja teaches history at Seattle's Nova High School, an alternative public school. The senior class he's offering is called: "September 11/Iraq War: What happened, why did it happen, and where do we go from here?"
According to the course description, the class will ask provocative questions: "Did the attacks take place in the manner reported by the major US news media? Were Osama Bin Laden and his followers indeed responsible for these brutal murders? Did the US government do all they reasonably could to avert the attacks, or did the US bungle its sincere attempts to stop this incidence of terrorism? On the other hand, was the US government itself part of planning the attacks or at least involved in them in some way, perhaps in making sure nothing was done to avert them?" The course was brought to reporters' attention by Cathy Allen, a political consultant working for Szwaja's opponent, incumbent Jean Godden. That looks to me as an endorsement of sorts that Godden takes Szwaja's candidacy seriously. Szwaja told Times City Hall reporter Bob Young today that he does not believe the U.S. government was involved in planning the attacks or making sure they weren't stopped. Szwaja said: "I want to teach students to think about important questions and I go out of my way to provide different perspectives." |
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“The main thing I try to do is teach classes that engage students from a variety of perspectives.”
Right. There’s the perspective of the socialist indoctrinator. And the perspective of the ‘blame America first’ ideologue. Not the mention the ‘critical thinking’ perspectives sympathetic to islamic fascism and marxist economics. How can we neglect the perspectives of eco-worshipers in the Church of Gaia? So many views, so little time to shape impressionable minds...
“Alternative school” aka a school for dhims,rats and subversives.
This is the kind of crap that the NEA pushes in our schools all the time.
This is one of the reasons the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild has started a PAC and is endorsing Tim Burgess and Councilman Tom Rasmussen for City Council.
“a city councilmember in Madison, Wisconsin for six years”
ah, that explains it.
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