"Yes, little girl, you will be able to read my book in school because it will be mandated."
I’m surprised they aren’t being force to memorize Hussein’s longest speeches.
We are at that awkward age,,,too late to stop them, and too early to,,,,,.
"Yes, little girl, you will be able to read my book in school because it will be mandated."
This is exactly why we home school our kids. We now spend the same amount of time teaching our kids as we use to correcting liberal BS.
And all the other books by old, dead, white men.
Obama is beginning to act more like Hitler than Stalin or does he just like the way Hitler legislated his dictatorship into place?
Mark Twain had better watch out. The same for Shakespeare, Hemingway (oh, he was a leftist, nevermind), Adler, Bloom, Hurwitz (and other Jewish writers on philosophy and education); the writings of Archbishop Fulton Sheehan; even Caesar (Omnia Gaulia est tres parte).
Oh, book burning by Executive Order. Now that is a novel approach to controlling the educational reading pool.
Does anyone now say that Obama isn’t a communist dictator in the making?
Amazing. Government publications are not literature. Maybe for political science or social studies, but LITERATURE?
Dreams from My Father would at least be considered literature. They should mandate that book.
If kids or parents refuse to read and memorize Dreams From my Father, they could be given elect o-shock therapy until they recover from delusions that Obama isn't god.
I'm not surprised.
Disturbing.
I was hoping this was satire.
Are you bleeping kidding me?
Just how far is this going to go?
This was predictable. Our press rewrites history as it is occurring. And, rewriting history is a tool of dictators. They MUST wipe out the past of a nation because if people remember the past, the dictatorship might be in jeopardy. Soon, all will be lies and propaganda and people will be of no more value than animals. How I wish America would awaken. It takes only 3% of a committed populace to change things..Do we not even have 3% in our America press who are willing to put themselves on the line for freedom? They are the ones who could change this but great courage will be needed. Also, God can bring about change if it is in His plan..Something like disease has changed history in the past.
This article reads right out "Agenda 21" by Glenn Beck and Harriet Parke.
It's not a bad list. I would make a few changes, but I don't have heartburn over it. But the main point is that this list is offered as a short set of non-binding examples to illustrate the recommended range and complexity level. The actual curriculum design is left (so far) to state and local school authorities, who will be the folks actually picking the texts. Or looking over the shoulders of the English teachers, if the teachers choose the texts.
That said, I am opposed to a federal curriculum authority for 101 good reasons, and averting the development of such an entity is a primary reason for resisting the ever-increasing flood of federal money into K-12 education. He who pays the piper will ultimately call the tune, and the feds are waging checkbook imperialism in the schools. The risk of mission creep is always present, and if we're not careful we'll soon have very detailed federal curricula being imposed. But that's a down-the-road threat. The standards being dicussed today aren't there yet.
Either people were so eager for the money that they didn't read the fine print or they didn't understand what a national curriculum was, how unconstitutional it was, and what it would ineveitably mean under Obama.
Literature is old technology entertainment. It’s academic value is dubious. I can’t understand the high regard literature is held in. Few people ever got a job for knowing the memoirs of a geisha or what Harry Potter is up to.
“Government is a parasite — a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others’ lives won’t give up and start minding their own business.” -Harry Browne
“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.” -Winston Churchill
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... “ —Johann Gotlieb fitche
Hmmm...
Hong Kong education plan draws protests (decry Chinese patriotic brainwashing)
Monday, July 30, 2012 3:32:52 PM · by Cincinatus’ Wife · 1 replies
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 30, 2012
Tens of thousands of protesters paraded through Hong Kong on Sunday, waving placards denouncing “brainwashing” by China’s ruling Communist Party and calling for the scrapping of plans for “national education” courses in local schools. [snip] Sunday’s protesters decried this as brainwashing. Protest placards borrowed lyrics from “Another Brick in the Wall,” a song by the British rock group Pink Floyd: “We don’t need no thought control. Leave them kids alone.” Hong Kong officials deny that the new courses - due to start in primary schools this year and secondary schools in 2013 - will mimic “patriotic education” teaching on the...