Posted on 09/11/2014 3:35:25 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
A D.C. sixth-grade teacher will apologize for an assignment that asked students to draw comparisons between former President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler. The McKinley Middle School teacher sent students home with a Venn diagram and asked them to compare and contrast Bush and Hitler. At least one parent found it troubling on a number of levels. He told News4 he sees a certain lack of respect for the office of the president. And the instructions read "both men who abused their powers," which the parent said presents opinion as fact.
D.C. Public Schools released a statement late Wednesday saying the teacher has admitted poor judgment and will apologize to students. The statement explained the students are in a War and Peace unit in which they consider “when conflict is warranted.” The complete statement: “The District of Columbia Public Schools provides teachers with an English-Language Arts curriculum that outlines the topics, texts, and standards to be taught within instructional units, while allowing teachers the flexibility to decide the best approach and day-to-day lessons for their students. One of the units at the beginning of the year is about War and Peace, allowing students to explore different perspectives and determine when conflict is warranted, and when peace should prevail. This week, a DCPS teacher created a worksheet to assign as homework which asked students to compare and contrast President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler, after reading two texts. No DCPS curriculum materials suggest in any way that teachers should compare the texts in this manner or compare Hitler to any other individual. “The teacher admits to extremely poor judgment and short sightedness and will apologize to students. The school will also send a letter home to families explaining the incident and offering to address any additional questions should they
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Just heard about this on WMAL...
W has been living rent-free in the heads of the limping left for fourteen years now. Not bad for a guy who can easily afford the rent
Seppuku.
Hmmmm DC. That would be considered an inner city school wouldn’t it.....
Assignment: Compare and contrast-Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler
Ridiculous assignment, but I think they’d find more parallels between Hitler and Obama, IMO.
I’m sure the teacher’s “apology” to the students will be heartfelt and their view of history will be corrected by some accurate teaching
NOT
meanwhile Republicans will continue sending poor people and people of color to extermination camps - like DC, Detroit and Chicago
Any guesses as to the race of the “teacher”?
That would be racist.
Again? This is common core crap...
Round two for this Hitler, Bush thing...
Hitler was a leftwing, big govt socialist
Bush was/is a leftwing, big govt socialist
So, in a basic sense, the two are comparable in terms of big govt ideology.
Idi Amin
If I ran the school, that teacher would be out of work....
They should compare 1930’s Germany to 2014 America.
I can draw them between 0 and hitler and hoover but not GWB.
GW had his to sympathetic issues. But he was no dictator.
No comparison, Hitlers speeches were much better!
And. . . how convenient. . . DC Public Schools do NOT list their faculty. . . . because that actually might allow some public accountability. . .
They should assign a comparison of the US today to Weimar Republic (1919-1933) Germany.
They don't dare even let the thought of this comparison cross their minds because it undermines all the basic foundations of the cocoon that all modern liberals blissfully live in.
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