Posted on 09/11/2014 3:35:25 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
A D.C. sixth-grade teacher will apologize for an assignment that asked students to draw comparisons between former President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler. The McKinley Middle School teacher sent students home with a Venn diagram and asked them to compare and contrast Bush and Hitler. At least one parent found it troubling on a number of levels. He told News4 he sees a certain lack of respect for the office of the president. And the instructions read "both men who abused their powers," which the parent said presents opinion as fact.
D.C. Public Schools released a statement late Wednesday saying the teacher has admitted poor judgment and will apologize to students. The statement explained the students are in a War and Peace unit in which they consider “when conflict is warranted.” The complete statement: “The District of Columbia Public Schools provides teachers with an English-Language Arts curriculum that outlines the topics, texts, and standards to be taught within instructional units, while allowing teachers the flexibility to decide the best approach and day-to-day lessons for their students. One of the units at the beginning of the year is about War and Peace, allowing students to explore different perspectives and determine when conflict is warranted, and when peace should prevail. This week, a DCPS teacher created a worksheet to assign as homework which asked students to compare and contrast President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler, after reading two texts. No DCPS curriculum materials suggest in any way that teachers should compare the texts in this manner or compare Hitler to any other individual. “The teacher admits to extremely poor judgment and short sightedness and will apologize to students. The school will also send a letter home to families explaining the incident and offering to address any additional questions should they
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Assignment: Compare Obama to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and to Karl Marx.
Hmmmmmmm, wait, wait, don't tell me...thinking...thinking... Does one have a sugar coating?? Both get soggy in milk.
I wonder if they can read or write in cursive?
LOL
Or perhaps Obama to ISIS
They won’t know, they eat breakfast at the school. Mom never gets cereal with the EBT, just cookies, cupcakes. crack, etc., and thats just her stash. Their father, the government feeds them.
Read? Whatever do you mean? They don’t need to read! The welfare people will fill out da forms for dem, when they grown A$$ and get de own welfare.
DO NOT discipline this teacher!
Just require the teacher to make next week’s assignment Venn diagram comparisons of Obama with Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
The Press & ‘street justice’ will then deal with the teacher.
Stupid, and a real lack of imagination. G.W. Bush is actually one of the more normal men we’ve had as president in the last 50 years, and he gets compared to Hitler.
Both were male...both served in the military....both had two arms and two legs and a head.
Although the teacher is never identified, in my mind, I view them as an extremely overweight female of the non-Caucasian variety.
Although the teacher is never identified, in my mind, I view them as an extremely overweight female of the non-Caucasian variety.
To correct the situation for the students they should be asked to now write a paper comparing and contrasting their teacher’ with Joseph Goebbles.
He or she should be fired. Yet another example of the problems in the our public schools.
Perhaps a better use of the students English-Language Arts curriculum time might be diagraming sentences.
Aside from it being a completely inappropriate comparison.....I'm thinking this 'teacher' has a blind eye.
wow... that’s some lunch for $152,462.00 ...
they may sell freshness, but something isn’t kosher
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