Posted on 04/21/2019 1:33:37 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
They don't have a choice if they want their students to pass the test. Guarantee the test will have loaded questions.
Lemme guess... we must be racist because we voted for a white guy instead of... um, a white girl.
See? That proves it (in liberal-think).
The way schools are these days, I tend to think children are better off not going to them at all.
Sounds pretty racist to me. It is offensive.
They should ban it.
Racism, racism, racism... all this talk that goes on and on and never a specific example.
The purpose of history is not to make facts clear, but to impart a particular point of view. The only way this text could be used would be to include a Trump favorable text as well.
I suppose they could also include some videos of Trump rallies. Can you even imagine a teacher doing this, I have taught and once my views became known, and the fact that I lacked tenure, it was discovered that there was not sufficient funds to continue in my position.
Nope, any teacher who provided a view different than this book better have tenure or he/she will be o-u-t.
Pearson Education? What’s their slogan, “Proliferating ignorance one textbook at a time?”
... a woman whose husband was accused of sexual harassment, assault, and even rape. But never mind that. Hillary deserved to be president so that makes it okay.
In the early 2000s, my daughters HS history book had a whole glowing chapter on The Rapist (without mentioning that part)
And another chapter for all other Presidents combined
So NO it's not up to individual high schools whether to get the book. The College Board runs the SATs and between that and AP determines what students are able to enter what college programs (especially elite programs). The College Board is a not for profit. I'll bet engaging in politics and proselytizing is prohibited.
Yep, and this country is soooo racist yet we have MILLIONS of non-whites clamoring to come here.
Pearson is the publisher/distributor. They don’t write the textbooks. Other textbook publishers like McGraw-Hill also publish textbooks but Pearson is probably the largest right now. It is the authors who slant those texts with their political points of view. Because certain states and school districts along with the teachers unions make up the largest consumers of textbooks, they become the de facto arbiters of textbook content. Because of that buying power, even a million complaints will probably not sway the publishers to make changes. You have to go to the individual state and local levels along with hitting the teachers unions. Good luck with that.
There is no evidence that President Trump bears any racial animosity. In fact, his track record has been equal opportunity to sink or swim on one's own merits. He has given many people chances that they perhaps wouldn't otherwise have had.
Anyone the left disagrees with is called "racist" without proof. The claim alone is supposed to be sufficient.
Fraser’s left-wing bias does not begin and end with President Trump. His text also contains a section on the officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the Black Lives Matter movement which casts the police in a highly negative light. According to Fraser, Michael Brown’s parents “were kept away at gunpoint” after he was shot and “The nearly all-white police force was seen as an occupying army in the mostly African American town…the police increased the tensions, defacing memorials set up for Brown and using rubber bullets on demonstrators.” -----https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269956/new-ap-history-text-categorizes-trump-supporters-sara-dogan
‘By the PEOPLE: A History of the United States’
The only thing that surprises me is how BLATANT they now are about their hatred of America. Anyone who was paying attention during the Cold War or later knows that the term ‘PEOPLE’ is a dog-whistle for the Left, as in ‘People’s Republic of China’, ‘Democrat People’s Republic of North Korea, etc.
It used to be that you needed to go to Page 469 to find the America-hatred, now it’s right on the cover.
Students all across America are being taught that every white person is a racist, no matter how hard that person may try to expunge racism from their thinking.
Didn’t the fascists change history books ?
Democrats are taking a cue from hitler
That thrilling time when I got my first library card included being allowed permission to check out from the adult shelves and carefully read the Arthur M. Schlesinger series on the New Deal. I didn’t know another viewpoint existed than school teachers taught and such books. His and Theodore H. White’s books on JFK were the standards we had soon after that.
Someday all the rabid, Trump Deranged anti-Trump historians will have history books on the dark, horrible years of Trump in office. Many have already started with the “use the 25th Amendment” and “the wonderful world of impeachment” style books and such.
I can imagine the “authoritative” history book bias they will soon use.
Don’t we have a secretary of education to stop this? Or to at least raise holy hell?
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