Posted on 07/21/2016 12:44:10 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
If the Chicago social-studies teacher Gregory Michie waits for a textbook to teach his students about the Black Lives Matter movement, the first seventh-graders to hear the lesson won’t be born for another seven years.
Despite the historical implications of that movement, bureaucratic timelines all but quash any possibility that students might learn about today’s events from an actual history textbook in the near future. According to Anthony Pellegrino, an assistant professor of education at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, many school districts receive new books on a seven-year cycle. However, in some states, schools don’t receive new books for 10 to 12 years, and the most current material in those books could be a few years old. Certainly digital textbooks shorten this timeframe, but physical copies lag far behind: In some districts like Michie’s, students are reading textbooks that don’t even contain the name Barack Obama.
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How many of his 7th graders can name at least one enumerated power of the Federal government? How many know the difference between rights, privileges and powers in our Constitutional system?
And the knockout “game”, and “polar bear hunting”?
I think they’re ratcheting up now, because they know when Trump is in the White House, the party’s over.
It usually means bloodshed on some scale.
I am for teaching many things in school.
Just teach the truth. The truth is BLM is a racist domestic terrorist outfit and the propaganda arm of the NOI, NBPP, and the CPUSA.
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