Posted on 11/12/2019 3:36:27 PM PST by DeweyCA
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The American Federation of Teachers, in its most recent journal, illustrates how postmodern ideology also dominates K-12 education. The issue paints America as under siege by the white supremacist power structure and urges its 1.6 million members to counter the pervasive “hostility and discrimination of people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, immigrant … or disability status” by being activists in the classroom. Teachers should defy our “racist country” by promoting victimized racial and ethnic groups and focus on the social inequities pervasive in America for all except those who are white, Western, Christian, or economically advantaged. The Federation advocates for an American history curriculum including the teachings of Howard Zinn, the anti-American, Marxist author and promoter of civil disobedience who, to paraphrase Ben Shapiro, recast America’s story as ugliness camouflaged by the hypocritical facade of goodness. The Zinn lesson plan includes “demythologizing Lincoln” as the Great Emancipator, just as the genius of our Founding Fathers has been deconstructed because they were slave owners. Zinn’s views are currently promoted in more than 90,000 classrooms.
Activist K-12 teachers and school administrators, assisted by activist state legislators across the country — in places like Indiana, Vermont, Oregon, and California — are adding ethnic studies programs either as an elective or as a mandatory requirement for high school graduation. Instead of an objective, balanced account of the history of ethnic groups in America, these programs instruct children that the United States is a nation of victimized minority groups oppressed by the white privileged and capitalism is a tool of that oppression. They foment racial grievance and foster anti-American sentiment, encouraging student activism to disrupt our political system.
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Standard fare for years AND we teach our boys that that they are the source of all evil.
What did some famous nazi say, hmmm oh, he didn’t need the adults he already had the kids.
UNTIL the left control of educ is addressed, it’s only gonna get worse folks.
Get rid of both DOE’s.
bkmk
My husband worked 243 days a year in a 9-5 job and teachers complain that the 180 days that teachers work is TOOOOO LONG.
Crybabies. My friends worked in pubic schools and LOATHED it. I worked at a community college and LOVED it.
They COULD HAVE gotten the M.A. degree and gotten out of teaching in the high schools but they were too darn LAZY.
ALL teachers have to take extra units over the years to improve themselves anyway, so why not put those units to an M.A. degree? Toooo harrrrrd......whine, whine.
They all quit working at 55 years old because they DETESTED their jobs. I LOVED mine and continued to work until I was 66.
Their retirement is lower and they now don't have enough money to do the things they want to do.
My retirement is double theirs and I'm just fine.
Sloth IS one of the seven deadly sins.
MOMMY state.
Yes! And it has to start with Betsey DeVos.
defund
it’s been that way for decades - this isn’t new.
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