Posted on 09/06/2009 6:23:17 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor
Host Tucker Carlson, asked experts, teachers, publishers and parents the same question: "Do you know what is inside your children's textbooks?" From kindergarten through college, we found staggering errors and omissions which may be pushing agendas, hidden and otherwise.
We spoke to the author of "The Language Police," education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children’s textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special interest groups, and assemble bias and sensitivity review committees. These committees decide what words to ban or redefine, and even what images are deemed offensive.
And we examined some college textbooks both in print and in digital forms. We found a glaring mistake in an expensive history book written by Alan Brinkley, Provost at New York’s Columbia University.
And in Fairfax County Virginia, questions remain about what textbooks are used in the private Islamic Saudi Academy. The ISA teaches about 1000 students each year pre-K — 12. Questions have been raised about its textbooks at least since 2006.
This summer, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, ISA’s 1999 valedictorian, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2002 Al Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush.
The ISA is wholly owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and teaches students from textbooks, which according to a report by a Saudi scholar interviewed by FOX News, continues to “propagate an ideology of hate to the unbeliever...
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We tracked down two American college professors who were paid by the ISA to review these textbooks. They signed a letter obtained by FOX News that the ISA's 2008-2009 textbooks' do not contain inflammatory material…” One of them sat down for an interview; the other refused.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Or in a good Christian school. Both are better than a public school any day.
There are tons of places that sell curricula for homeschooling. Often local Christian schools help out homeschoolers. It’s better than sending your kids to public school but you do need to be organized and disciplined.
I agree. Some kids ARE better off learning a trade. My grandson was one of them. School and he did not jive. He went to BOCES to learn auto tech and that wasn’t so hot either. Of course, he had his own set of problems which were rarely addressed.
I can see a big difference in Greta. I can stand to watch her now. She did a great job with Sarah Palin interviews.
I bet they think it’s free. Wait until they find out the truth. No free lunch here.
book on gay penguins...???
Did you ever wonder why you never see dead penguins on the ice in
Antarctica?
Ever wonder where they go? Wonder no more.
It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird
which lives an extremely ordered and complex life.
The penguins have a very strong community bond.
They are very committed to their family and will mate for life.
They also maintain a form of compassionate contact with their
offspring throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of
the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the
ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is
deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the freshly-dug
grave and sing....
“Freeze a jolly good fellow...”
When those kids find their nitch lots of times they love their work. A friend of mine’s son was a terror in school and ended up quitting when the school told his parents he wasn’t welcome back for a 5th year of high school.
Today he refurbishes and repairs stained glass windows. He’ll never get rich but he and his family are happy and his youngest son is learning the trade.
Unlike a lot of 50 year-olds that kid loves going to work every day.
Wisdom is the reward of many years of experience with my own 4 children,10 grandchildren, and the soon to arrive great grandchild, as well as observation of the growth of children into adulthood from many other families.
The curriculum in the public school kindergarten is actually pretty intense.
Please do a Google on the words: "Finland Starting Age School". You will find many articles that suggest that starting formal studies on very young children is actually detrimental to their later academic success.
I know many homeschooling families that use the rule, "Wait until eight!" While it is OK to introduce children to certain academic materials (in a playful way), if they don't take an interest in it, it is best to wait. These young years are better spent in loosely supervised unstructured **play**. In fact, **play** is a child's most important work, and we should be very careful not to let other activities ( such as institutional schooling) interfere with this important play that is so essential to their mental and physical health and later social adjustment.
They learn to read and do math at a level that used to be considered normal for first grade or even higher.
You seem happy with your government school teacher and your child's adjustment. If he just started kindergarten how many **days** has he been there? My suggestion would be to carefully monitor him over the next 3 or 4 **months**.
Personally, I believe that United States has such a high level of dyslexia due to trying to teach young children academic subjects before they are neurologically and developmentally ready. The frustration can lead to lifelong aversion to reading and permanent dyslexia.
Most of them think they are paying more than enough to cover their kids schooling. When in fact they are being subsidized by others just like the people in the projects.
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I believe that,too. Not all kids are meant for college. I think sometimes college ruins them politically and often morally as well (all the drinking, easy sex, etc.) Each person has to decide for him/herself what’s best. We parents and grandparents can guide them but they essentially have to begin their own journey.
When I was in 1st grade, in the early 90’s, I distinctly remember reading a picture book in the school library about a group of Native Americans that ambushed an evil, white anglo frontier railroad train and murdered all the people onboard. The book ended with a drawing of dead soldiers slumped on the ground impaled with arrows and spears and the indians dancing around happily wearing the white man’s clothes and holding the dead soldiers’ rifles.
Looking back, I can’t believe some of the sick bullsh*t they tried to indoctrinate us with.
I agree.
That's exactly the thinking that got us here...and anti-Catholic Protestants.
The premise that forcing a good idea on someone is absurd on its face.
Pass the link along to all your mailing lists. Keep smashing at the machine.The next step is vouchers tied to inflation and population growth.
In our area it has been observed that the longer a child stays in the public school system, the worse his scores. The state has a standardized test for academic progress in the basics, and by 11th grade, the results are about 30 points lower than 2nd grade scores.
It’s nice that your kindergartener’s teacher is awesome, though...
I also read every textbook in sight before putting it in front of my homeschooler.
By the way, a lot of the material we use isn’t “textbook.” For example, in history, there’s an old collection called Annals of America. Chronologically organized volumes of American writing, so you grasp history as viewed by the people witnessing it at the time.
And one of my favorite educational resources is youtube.com, though we have at home a very extensive collection of educational films. Youtube’s got more! :)
My biggest complaint about recent textbooks is that they are presented as values-neutral, and they’re often merely anti-American; the contrast with older books is remarkable.
Just because a kid has bad parents doesn't mean the kid should miss out on at least learning how to read and write.
We also have the ghetto attitude that is against people getting an education, as if an education were only a white thing. That will have to be countered in a different manner.
What About Vouchers?
Why not just provide government vouchers so parents can send their children to school where they want? Wouldn't that solve the funding problem?
Not in the least.
Vouchers are still state financing of schools, which comes with endless meddling, regulations, strings attached — rules about what can be taught, said, displayed, who can be hired, testing requirements, not to mention continued dependence on government for our preparation for life. It wouldn't be long before a private school system turned into another top-heavy, enslaved, mediocre government system. It's the nature of the beast.
Some people like to claim that this pitfall can be avoided — just force the government to agree that people have the right to send their kids where they want, at taxpayer expense, and the government can do nothing but collect and hand out the money. These people would do well to talk to the thousands of colleges that accept government taxpayer-funded vouchers in the form of students grants and loans. Not one has escaped the government's endless rules. The only thing that saves some colleges from total deterioration is that a large portion of their funding still comes from parents and students who expect something for their money. It is amazingly naive to think that grade and high schools would escape what colleges cannot.
Vouchers still involve forcing your neighbors to pay for your children's education. Some people find this acceptable because it relieves them of the burden, others find it a just use of their neighbors' earnings. Whatever your point of view, there are other serious reasons to dismiss the idea and embrace total independence from the state. The surest way to kill independence is to accept money from the government.
Tax-financed vouchers will destroy the very private education that their proponents so much desire. The goose that is laying the golden eggs is the combination of voluntary parental sacrifice and the ability of schools to locate those parents. Converting this 'sacrifice system' to a 'welfare system' with school stamps, a.k.a. vouchers [like food stamps], will kill this goose. If government funding of parental duties weakens parents, would removal of government funding enable them to regain parenting strength? I think so. Parents who increase their sacrifice for their children subsequently work to become better parents.
- Marshall Fritz, founder of The Alliance for the Separation of School & State
http://www.schoolandstate.org/Case/case5.htm
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