Posted on 05/11/2005 5:27:36 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Thanks to generations of indoctrination, Mexicans believe California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado still belong to Mexico. The tens of millions of dollars the Mexican government took in exchange for the land notwithstanding, Mexican children are taught early and often that the 1845 annexation of Texas, the 1848 treaty after the Mexican-American War and the 1852 Gadsden Purchase allowed the United States to "steal" the American Southwest from Mexico. This is why so many Mexicans don't believe they need anyone's permission to enter this country whenever they please.
As badly as Mexican schools have mangled history, they are rank amateurs compared with those who publish texts for America's science classrooms. Writing in the May 5 Weekly Standard, author Pamela R. Winnick demonstrated how junk science and ghastly errors permeate science texts in most schools: "A sloppy way with facts, a preference for the politically correct over the scientifically sound, and sheer faddism characterize their content. It's as if their authors had decided above all not to expose students to the intellectual rigor that is the lifeblood of science."
To wit:
Fifth-graders who use the Discovery Works series by Houghton Mifflin must plow through page after page of Algonquin Indian weather lore before they learn how the earth's rotation and tilt affect climate.
Promoting minorities and women, Discovery Works hails NBC weatherman Al Roker as a "great scientist," credits black scientist Lewis Latimer with improving the light bulb while barely mentioning Thomas Edison, and extols the work of Marie Curie while relegating her husband, who shared a Nobel Prize with her, to the role of the supportive spouse.
According to "Biology: The Study of Life," a high school text by Prentice Hall, dark-skinned humans evolved when some "very light-skinned" people were shipwrecked on an island; after "many years under the tropical sun," succeeding generations got darker. The explanation, Ms. Winnick reminds, "has no basis in science."
A study paid for by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation found 500 pages of errors in 12 middle-school science textbooks used by 85 percent of American students. Among them: Isaac Newton's first law of motion was misstated; humans can't hear elephants; the equator runs through the United States.
The fault here lies less with the scientists who wrote the books than with the multicultural committees, with no expertise in science, that reviewed them, said the report's author, John Hubisz, a North Carolina State University physics professor. "Thousands of teachers are saddled with error-filled physical science textbooks. Political correctness is often more important than scientific accuracy. Middle-school text publishers now employ more people to censor books than they do to check facts."
But scientists aren't absolved here because most schools, and thus the publishers, follow the National Science Education Standards compiled by National Academy of Sciences. The standards are decidedly PC. They place religion on a par with "myth and superstition," and advise teachers to be "sensitive" to students who are "economically deprived, female, have disabilities, or (come) from populations underrepresented in the sciences." Is it any wonder only 12 percent of graduating seniors in 2000 were judged proficient in science and international surveys rank American high school seniors 19th among seniors surveyed in 21 countries?
Students need to be taught science that distinguishes fact from multiculturalism. But until the schools are rescued from the tyrannical control of political correctness, science lessons will continue to be less about brain power than brain washing.
It must be a letdown for all those Mexicans that go to the trouble to enter the USA illegally to find out that they are still in Mexico.
Human's can't hear elephants? I don't even get that. How would that even come up???
the equator runs through the United States.
I live just north of the equater, in llinois.
I've never heard an elephant here, so it must be true.
She survived him a number of years, presumably because she was smarter and figured out that radiation might not be good for you.
Actually that is in part true, Elephants do communicate sometimes in infrasound which humans can't hear
I read somewhere that their scientific journals are still radioactive to this day.
I'd often asked the question about why Truman would approve using the atom bomb if it would result in several hundred thousand people suffering horrible deaths from radiation injuries over several weeks and months ~ eventually I discovered that at the time they were used very little more was known of radiation injuries than at the time the Curie's died.
It is based on the fact that certain household chemicals repel elephants. When the rejoinder comes, "there are no elephants around here", the persons says, Yes, they are very effective.
Have you ever heard one in the wild? I thought not! Case proved (to the multiculturist's satisfaction).
You've never been to africa or asia? Well, obviously you are a racist who also hates elephants.(sarcasm off)
Well, actually several people suffered radiation injuries at Los Alamos. And Dr. Feinmann visited the urainium processing plants and put safeguards in place. The workers were not storing vats of radioactive chemicals properly. It was true we did not know the extent of precautions that needed to be taken, and we certainly did not know the link between radiation at low levels and later development of cancer.
Home school is not enough.
The left COUNTS on taking our tax dollars and not having to teach the "radical" homeschoolers.
For them it is the best because they keep the money and no longer have to deal with a conservative mother and father.
It also leaves the homeschooled surrounded by doublethink dogma.
BTW this PC-ization of science has already been done at the smithsonian natural history museums. The went through and made all the exhibits socially sensitive. (iow: anti male oriented, science be damned.)
My fifth grader uses that Houghton Mifflin science text - I told her to be sure to bring it home tomorrow so I can look at it.
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
Re the Curies... he died because he was hit by a horse-drawn bus, and she outlived him! He was in fact the supportive husband, she was the main researcher, but I am not surprised Americans don't know that... She was Polish, he was French.
Is it true they use his coffin as a night time safety light at Les Halles?
The Science textbooks my kids had in public skool were heavy, colorful, expensive and patently stupid.
Im in NW Indiana, we must be in the tropics.
Good combination, with a beer. A little Grey Poupon?
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