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: ___________________________
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I'm sure some of the SC Tea Party groups would be interested in signing and mailing this resolution.
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This came to me from Dr. Christina Jeffrey who lives and teaches at Wofford in SC. Christina is plugged into most all of the SC patriot groups. I’m pretty sure they’re on this one.
that is why I think wer are not getting our country back. Several generations of kids have been “educated” without any History. By eliminating actual History from the curriculum you cut kids off from knowing what worked in the past and what did not work, what was successful and what failed. If they have no knowledge of the past they can be sold any bill of goods at all. They can be convinced that totalitarian Marxism/Progressivism will turn the world into Candyland.
In about the ONLY wisdom to come from Harvard was this. It’s what these bastards on the left has incorporated into their “plan” for our kids. But they’ve taken it to the next level: THEY WON’T TEACH IT!!
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
IT’S GOTTA STOP!!
You’re preaching to the Amen choir, FRiend.
Can you please provide a link to what you encountered? I don’t doubt you at all, knowing what I know about school socialists who have the upper hand in the system. Just want to see for myself, in concise format.
So share this with others on the other social media venues. You know who they are. Use them.
Dick, we have had this discussion before: While we conservative Constitutionalists worked hard and raised our families to be good American citizens, the LIEberals were hard at work undermining our nation.
We woke up in the morning and went about our business to make America a better place; to provide a better life for our kids and grandkids.
The LIEberals went about their business of destroying America by infiltrating the schools, the churches and the businesses in America with their evil Marxist philosophy.
By the time we realized what had happened, Ophonybama was President
OOOPS!!
Oh wow..it was a while ago, and i was just speaking from my memory of the event.I suppose if we looked up “Advanced placement American history Exam’ we might be able to reconstruct the event.
I am so sorry I related the experience without being able to provide a link. I was just reminiscing with you all.
No worries mate... Thought if you could recall it it would be fun to have a go at it
If we fail to BEGIN the process of reclaiming our birthright in 2014 and 16, it will take more than elections to right the ship of state.
Be safe.
Roger that!
The “educators” need to hear from the parents in masses.
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Great post; great thread. BTTT!
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My daughter discovered that with the SAT tests years ago.
She had taken a few practice tests over the course of a few days and grading herself to see what she needed to work on.
Suddenly she announces, “They don’t want the correct answer! They want the politically correct answer! I’m taking another test!”
And she did and upped her vocab score by 100 points, putting it into the 700’s.
My son tried it and just could not wrap his brain around it. He just didn’t get it.
Yes...I took the SAT recently on line as well.
The multiple choice “choices” were very subjective inh the reading comprehension problems.
How can there be an INCORRECT answer to the Question:
“What did you get from this passage?”
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