8th grade textbook has Barack Obama chapter in Racine, Wis.

chicago sun-times ^ | 10/16/08 | chicago sun-times

[GeorgiaDawg32]

MADISON, Wis. — The Racine school district’s use of an eighth grade textbook that includes a chapter on Democrat Barack Obama but nothing on his opponent John McCain is unfair and troubling, the Wisconsin Republican Party argued Thursday.

A parent complained on an Internet blog about the textbook that includes a chapter on Obama called ‘‘Dreams from My Father.’’

The school district said in a statement that it has received no complaints about the book, which it first used last school year. Even so, the 21,000-student district said it was reviewing its policies regarding the book’s use in a literature class.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I did the requisite title search..if this is a duplicate, I apologize..

[xcamel]

um..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=textbook

Remember to use one (unique) searchword, never the entire title.

[NeoConfederate]

This is sad. Classrooms around the country can’t get updated books, and when they do...the books glorify the friend of a terrorist!

[mapmaker77]

If you wanted an example of monumental ego and singular hubris, this is it.

[ari-freedom]

reason #75846 to homeschool

[AirForceMom]

WTH, textbooks now? Video games too. BO scares the hell out of me.

[ari-freedom]

so much for the McGuffey Reader.

[TLI]

The school district said in a statement that it has received no complaints about the book, which it first used last school year.

!!!!! So that being the case and considering it takes at LEAST 6-8 months to put together a 800+ page textbook the Obamanation was being planned just after the last mid-term elections?

[Aria]

It’s no longer an education - it’s an indoctrination.

[americanophile]

“unfair and troubling” doesn’t begin to describe it. It’s bizarre, creepy, outrageous!

[Last Dakotan]

If you wanted an example of monumental ego and singular hubris, this is it.

Just wait until the half-hour network TV shows this week.

[arichtaxpayer]

My sons went to parochial school. We weren’t exposed to all this crap that goes on. I can’t believe the brainwashing going on.

[LS]

I was scheduled to go on "Fox and Friends" Mon. to talk about this, but I did some research. In fairness, this was written in 2006, published in 2007. The new edition, written in 2008 and published (now) with a date of 2009 has taken this out. He was not a candidate for the pres. when the first one was written.

Now, you can complain about including it at all, but the book has a section by Colin Powell, short stories and poems by Longfellow, e e cummings, Sandberg, and, of course, Maya Angelou. The point is, while I find the book overly PC, it is not as outrageous as first appeared, and Fox and I decded the segment wasn't "newsworthy" given what we now know.

[LS]

No, I looked at this, and two other 8th grade lit books. In the totality of the book, it’s not as bad as it appears. There are sections on “pride” and various ethnic groups, including a piece by Colin Powell, a Japanese, and so on. The new (2009) version does not have this in it, precisely because he had announced as a candidate. Now, I find all the books I looked at as extremely PC, both in “diverse” authors and in too many pieces by Ray Bradbury or Maya Angelou, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected when I examined all of these books.