Tips for Parents/Schools for September 11, 2001 (teach about american intolerance! NEA crap)

jfku and NEA ^

[weegee]

But Johnnie could read. In fact he read enough to go to Afghanistan to fight the good fight of Jihhad.

[alisasny]

I am going to see what is going to be taught to my children on 9/11 this year. If it is anyway similar to this crap they will be absent that day and spending the day with me learning the truth.

[weegee]

I haven't seen any requests for adults to attend the day's activities. It seems that having the parents present (those who choose to attend and are able to make to time to do so) would do more to foster a sense of "community". But then some parents would raise a red flag at some of the obvious indoctrination.

Adults should only visit the schools for "open house" (when everything is in order, no surprise inspections) and to discuss what their jobs are like, I guess.

[maestro]

Ah,......the NEA will now oppose the U.N. (and the whole 'Left') of ignoring the worldwide murder and abuse of Christians?

/sarcasm

[ladylib]

There were stories of students who were not allowed to use the word "terrorists" when discussing the "incident" in some public schools. That alone disqualifies those public school personnel from even bringing the subject up in class.

[weegee]

It's unfair to judge. All of these massacres, bombings, hostage situations, etc. are just the actions of individuals. "We" can't make any assumptions or generalizations about their motives, regardless of what they claim in videotapes... < /sarcasm >

[ladylib]

Good question about the Holocaust. You should have been in France when it happened. My sister's in-laws were and very graphic scenes (people jumping, bodies on the ground) were shown. It was censored here.

[Khepera]

Good Grief, more liberal blather. Let us not forget, genocide is a Biblical concept. It was God himself, who on multiple occassions in the Old Testament, ordered the children of Israel to wipe out entire nations (men, women, children, cattle, etc.)

As for violence never solves anything, we both know better. Germany and Japan were not stopped in WWII by diplomats sitting down and reasoning with them. They were stopped by repeated demonstrations of superior firepower. As Rush Limbaugh is fond of saying, "The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things" and "the ability to wage war is the best deterrent to war". I am so sick of hearing about "tolerance" and "intolerance" that I am going to get physically ill all over the next liberal that brings it up. Go talk to the Palestinians who dress their 18 month old babies up in suicide vests about tolerance. Then go talk to the Saudis about respect for women and religious diversity. Then, if you are still alive, MAYBE I would be more willing to listen.

[neutrino]

Violence and hate are never solutions to anger

Umm? So after Pearl Harbor we should have given Japan a "timeout"? Riiight.

[weegee]

The first (and only) photo I've seen of a body from 9/11 was in a French copy of Photo Magazine (there is also an American Photo Magazine that is from the same company).

Neither magazine ever duplcates articles. One month both magazines ran articles on 9/11. The American article was largely text accounts of what photojournalists saw. The French magazine had an assortment of photos and among them was a body on a stretcher (or in an open body bag) from the clean up.

If we aren't going to be exposed to carnage within our own nation by foreign attackers, then I don't ever want to see bodies from "domestic terrorists" like OKC and certainly don't want to be exposed to carnage from foreign countries (to spin to me to back some policy or other).

[San Jacinto]

Tips for Al Quaeda and its supporters (as a model to discourage fanatics from "acting out" their feelings of aggreession toward America (The Great Satan)

1. Try to be more tolerant toward those with whom you disagree. You will benefit from patience and understanding.
2. America has cruise missles that can hit small and large targets with great effect from long distances. They will use them on you if you ignore tip number one.
3. America has a wide variety of bombs it can drop from 40,000 feet with amazing accuracy.
4. American military personnel are very good shots with m-16 rifles.
5. The treads of American tanks don't really need to be greased with the guts of the enemy, but then again it doesn't hurt the tanks to do so.
6. Many Americans believe that a bayonet in the belly is a good way to releive the pent up hatred in those who caused or supported the 9/11 attacks.
7. A lot of Americans are getting a little tired of being attacked and you never know when their government might actually respond in a way designed to end such attacks for all time, so don't take that chance.
8. If you really must attack America in the future, confine the attacks to places like Ithaca and Berkely, where there are people who apparently will not think bad of you for attacking them.
9. The NEA has not yet spead the Ithaca-Berkely ethic to all regions, but they are working on it.
10. In the meantime remember there are FReepers and other Americans who don't think there has been NEARLY enough response yet to last year's attacks. Don't push them.

[Greeklawyer]

Not everyone has the ability to pull their childre out of public schools. Homeschooling is not an option for those who do not have the skills to be an effective home school teacher. (some people know their limits) Private schools are not an option where they are unavailable or unaffordable.

This leave parent only with the option of active involvement. Teachers may give lip service to reform but the fact is the student and the parent are with a particular school for a limited time. The administration needs only put up with an attentive parent for the 4 or 5 years in a particular school. It is only when the same parental concerns are carried like a torch year after year, (voting cycle after voting cycle) that reforms will recieve more than lip service.

[Tired of Taxes]

I'm a homeschooler, and we teach our children to respect people through example. Our family is very diverse. I wouldn't condone my children picking on another child simply because his name sounds Arabic, for example. I can't stand the NEA, and it seems to me that their final goal is to make all children wards of the state. But, our family practices mutual respect of other people (a conservative on another forum pointed out to me that, in the old days, people didn't talk about "tolerance" - they called it "respect", and you had to earn it by respecting others yourself).

[EdReform]

Hatch Amendment Letter - Parental Consent Form for use in the Public Schools

Help Defund the National Education Association

[Barnacle]

Older children might want to consider what would have happened if all white American males had been condemned for the Oklahoma City bombing.

If? What do they mean "if"? The media does its best to do just that everyday.

Any of you ever seen that Lifetime network? It's one propaganda story after another of those terrible white males victimizing defenseless woman and children.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Homeschooling is not an option for those who do not have the skills to be an effective home school teacher.

Most people who think they do not have the skills to homeschool are underestimating themselves. The most important factor in successfully teaching your own children is the DESIRE to do so. "Where there's a will, there's a way." I have talked people into homeschooling who initially thought they weren't intelligent enough or patient enough and they are doing very well today.

I'm not arguing with you; I just want to make the point that it's not as hard as people think it is. (I've homeschooled for eleven years. My oldest son will be starting his junior year in the fall.)

[bobsatwork]

NEA overlooked the very finest advice I have yet seen:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

[ppaul]

Most people who think they do not have the skills to homeschool are underestimating themselves. The most important factor in successfully teaching your own children is the DESIRE to do so. "Where there's a will, there's a way." I have talked people into homeschooling who initially thought they weren't intelligent enough or patient enough and they are doing very well today. I'm not arguing with you; I just want to make the point that it's not as hard as people think it is. (I've homeschooled for eleven years. My oldest son will be starting his junior year in the fall.)

Worth repeating.
The biggest bunch of BS being touted by the NEA and their lackies is that a parent is not "qualified". A parent is really the only person who is qualified. With all the information, help in every form, and home education co-ops operating sucessfully all over the U.S., there's no better time than right now to remove your children from the government/NEA controlled propaganda mills.

Forget politics. If you really want to make a difference in your child's life, and ultimately in our culture and society - this is it.

[ppaul]

See #58.

[ppaul]

Homeschooling is not an option for those who do not have the skills to be an effective home school teacher.

That could be said about being a parent as well.
But if you are a parent, you can become a successful home educator. What are parents for, after all? A good parent educates (or should) his or her children about the most important things in life - morals, values, religion, love, hygene, etc. The schools are poor purveyors of such instruction. We've put too much emphasis on academics that we have forgotten what really matters. Academics are actually the easy part. With a little very available help, any parent, who truly desires to be a good parent, can handle that.