Posted on 09/04/2014 10:10:12 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
Please read the document below to fully grasp the nature and magnitude of the "problems" in the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS and "education" in America today! They're REWRITING OUR HISTORY -- AGAIN!!!!
This is ESPECIALLY for you parents who, after scrimping and saving for years to send your offspring to "prestigious" colleges and universities, are dismayed that they come back to you filled with ideas so foreign to you that you suspect that they had instead gone to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University! (Hint: They might have been better off if they had.)
The good folks in Charleston are trying to halt this latest effort to "fundamentally transform" America. What's going on in YOUR area? FYI, the authors of this resolution have made it available to anyone who wishes to use it in their area.
Resolution Demanding Implementation Delay, and Rewrite, of AP U.S. History Curriculum Framework
WHEREAS, approximately 5,000 South Carolina students take the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) course each year; and
WHEREAS, the APUSH course has traditionally been designed to present a balanced view of American history and to prepare students for college-level history courses; and
WHEREAS, the College Board has recently released a new Framework for the APUSH course; and
WHERES, the new U.S. History Framework document appears to exclude a large number of South Carolina U.S. History and Constitution (USHC) Standards and includes a number of revisionist standards not found in USHC; and
WHEREAS, the new U.S. History Framework document, therefore, is not aligned with the South Carolina –mandated – USHC standards as traditionally committed to by the College Board; and
WHEREAS, the new APUSH Framework reflects a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects; and
WHEREAS, the Framework includes little or no discussion of the Founding Fathers, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the religious influences on our nation’s history, and many other critical topics that have always been part of the APUSH course; and
WHEREAS, the Framework excludes discussion of the U. S. military (no battles, commanders, or heroes) and omits many other individuals, groups, and events that greatly shaped our nation’s history (for example, Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Tuskegee Airmen, the Holocaust); and
WHEREAS, the Framework presents a biased and inaccurate view of many important events in American history, including the motivations and actions of 17th-19th-century settlers, American involvement in World War II, and the development of and victory in the Cold War; and
WHEREAS, the Framework describes its detailed requirements as “required knowledge” for South Carolina students, and the College Board admits that the APUSH examination will not test information outside this “required knowledge”; and
WHEREAS, to prepare their students for the APUSH examination, South Carolina APUSH teachers will have to teach the APUSH “required knowledge” rather than the USHC standards; and
WHEREAS, the Framework will have the effect of usurping the South Carolina-mandated U.S. History and Constitution Standards;
THEREFORE, the Charleston County Board of Education demands that the South Carolina Department of Education require the College Board to delay the implementation of the new APUSH Framework for at least a year and that during this time a committee be convened to draft an APUSH Framework that is consistent both with the APUSH course’s traditional mission and with the U.S. History and Constitution Standards mandated by the State of South Carolina; and absent such a redrafting, that an alternative to the College Board APUSH program be sought which provides benefits to students, universities and parents as heretofore provided by past APUSH courses and tests.
FURTHERMORE, the Charleston County Board of Education requests that the South Carolina Legislature investigate this matter.
Adopted by the Charleston County Board of Education
By: _____________________________
Date: ___________________________
But because the government "education" system continues indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of new little mindless Marxist myrmidons each year, until we somehow regain control of THAT process, the America many of us knew as kids will soon be OVER!!!
Hense “government education”
Amen!
I agree with you.
Just as a lark, I took the “Advanced Placement” test a few months ago, when the link was given here in this very forum.
By the third question I detected the left-wing agenda bleeding through the questions and the “multiple choice” answers.
In a fit of pique, I answered every question with the answer that seemed to me to most closely resemble a far left interpretation of the events considered, and scored a very high mark on the exam. I realized that it was a test, not of knowledge or even of critical thinking, but of adherence to the “party line”.
It was a very disturbing experience, to say the least.
Somehow?
How about parents doing their job and educating their kids?
It cannot be done at public school.
Just say no.
If that is not possible, ask why.
If the answer is that the family cannot live on one salary, ask why.
there’s the answer to the problem.
Follow the money, cut the funding get until corrected, monitor , audit, oversee rinse and repeat.
Unfortunately your analysis is correct. Just as a note, though: what do you expect? The school / department in the typical university that intellectually ranks just above varsity athletics is the school of education. Nice kids being brainwashed with the (very slightly) better ones going on to “innovate” in education.
We must reestablish federalism and dramatically shrink federal involvement in things that are not enumerated by the Constitution. Then we need to give an intellectual enema to academia by getting rid of the overblown “new” studies departments — including schools of education.
Teachers need to have a domain expertise in a subject but not in teaching per se. Teaching is learned by doing and in conjunction with an experienced teacher not by sitting on your fanny being indoctrinated in socialism.
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In another generation we will not recognize what is taught as “history”
The College Board would be a nice antitrust target.
You may want to share with those groups who are being omitted. They could get together and object, too.
That sounds excellent, and I am fully supportive of what you have suggested. But tell me, how will it become reality?
Gov. Walker in WI has taken on the teachers unions and won thus far, which is great, and we’ll soon see if he can retain his seat. But despite doing more than nearly anyone else to challenge those taking education in the wrong direction, Wisconsin still has adopted Common Core. Many teachers still rabidly hate Walker and we know their left-wing bias is carried into the classroom. Local school boards allow these things to happen. So how are the ideas you put forth ever going to become a reality?
What's going on here in education is playing out, albeit in a more bloody way, in Gaza. There is no solution (other than wipeout) to the mid-east problem for at least the next 30 years, as the current generation has been taught in palie schools to hate Israel and hate jews from Kindergarden/Sesame-street and up. If the schools could be fixed, there would still be no solution for decades, awaiting for that generation to take power.
Wow.
Just so people grasp what this means. AP classes are college credit classes taught to high schoolers. If a student passes the AP exam, then the student receives credit for US history in college. The best and brightest students across the country in public and private schools take AP US history to save money and time. The people who designed this course found a way to indoctrinate without having to do it in colleges and universities across the country. Lol. I was so blessed to take US History from Forrest McDonald many moons ago. He brought history alive to me in a way no other college professor did. He loved his country warts and all, and he loved teaching and writing. We need a young Forrest writing the curriculum for these classes.
You say the source is New Hanover County Board of Education. New Hanover county is in NC (Wilmington), SC. We just moved from New Hanover to just north to Pender County.
Here’s the New Hanover Co Resolution:
Ugh, typo, New Hanover Co is in NC, not SC.
Exactly.
There are no “failing schools”. Our public schools are doing precisely what they were intended to.
The system is well-designed, and is working perfectly. “Reforming” it won’t change a thing.
In short, this sort of mind-manipulating, brain-deadening, robot-making, sexual-perverting, God-hating, dumbing-down of our children is not a bug, it’s a feature.
Thanks for the update.
I agree, however, we may have an opportunity with this election to begin at least some change. If we get a more constitutionalist congress or, at least, replace the current speaker of the house, we can begin by simply zeroing funding for entire departments. Hit them at the cash level. Throw the responsibility back to the several states — it will hurt for a bit but eventually begin to solve the problem.
Let’s say we zero out the federal department of education. That certainly makes a point does it not? Money cannot be allocated unless it originates in the house so, at least in theory, this can be done.
The problem is whether we (the citizens) can really influence anything or not. If we cannot then the last vestiges of a representative government are gone and we have no hope but more radical methods.
linky for that???
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