NEA Delivers History Lesson

The Washington Times ^ | August 19, 2002 | Ellen Sorokin

[Lockbox]

takes a decidedly blame-America approach, urging educators to "discuss historical instances of American intolerance," so that the American public avoids "repeating terrible mistakes."

Well if this is fact, then where did our former leaders learn to be intolerant? Could it be from teachers and thus the NEA?

So who’s really to blame for America’s intolerance?

[yoe]

"Americans see their schools as the place that will help their children make sense of these horrific events and move forward as better people."

That the ‘designer’ of this pro-Marxist lesson plan is from the John F. Kennedy University in California should surprise no one. California has become a Mecca for Islam studies and disavows any form of Western Culture/Civilization. Craige McMillian’s article in WND, The Silence of The Lambs, (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE=ID28626) is so very right when he says the ‘educrats’ see to it Kids go in ignorant, they learn political correctness, pseudo-science, hatred of America and sexual perversion before being dumped on the street – uneducated.

What the NEA has proposed for “remembering September 11” is nothing short of the NEA’s vilification of America and all she stands for. Jihad is not from any other religion but ISLAM; it is the only religion that teaches the killing of your fellow man except to eradicate all other religions, especially Christianity.
The Islamic campaign of violence in Algeria has turned some Muslims, especially Berbers, away from Islam and toward Christianity, reports the Algiers daily Al-Yawm in late December 2000, as reprinted in Courrier International.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/623887/posts
Christianity from the Outside: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/696955/posts
”...” In a country where most people identify themselves as Christians, non-Christians often choose their words carefully in public, selecting phrases more notable for their politic obfuscations and concessions than for their raw honesty.

Western Civilization is predominately Christian – the belief that Christ is the Son of God. The NEA is predominately a Marxist/Socialist organization, far more radical than most parents realize. It is exactly what Iserbyte and others have warned us about...Socialism/Islam/Political Correctness in our schools. Parents it was not a Christian who blew up the Twin Towers, it was Men of ISLAM and that is no bull, it is the TRUTH. If the teachers won’t tell the truth, Parents, see to it your children are aware of that fact.

[jackbill]

Sounds like it is time for parents of public school kids to approach their principals and remind them that it is not up to a union to decide what their children will be told. It is up to the principal, the parents and the community that provides the money.

[MeekOneGOP]

Osama bil Clinton gave a speech at Georgetown a couple of months ago with this exact same theme.

This fella?........

"A presidential executive order issued during the Clinton
administration hamstrung the FBI so badly that bureau
lawyers decided it would be illegal to infiltrate Osama bin
Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, a senior
FBI official during the Clinton administration said Saturday."
(June 1, 2002)

____________________

"I don't believe 9-11 happened because of an intelligence breach," Quayle told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."

"I think it was really a policy breach. It was the inaction of the previous administration, by and large, that al Qaeda -- and bin Laden in particular -- thought that they could hit the United States, and there would be a retaliation maybe of a cruise missile but nothing more than that," he explained.

The comments make the former vice president, who served under President Bush's father from 1989 to 1993, the highest ranking former U.S. official to suggest that the Clinton administration should get the lion's share of the blame for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.

[Tom Bombadil]

not to "suggest any group is responsible"

We just cleaned up the rubble and now the NEA wants to prove that we might have done it to ourselves. Ted Kennedy, can you hear this? Oh Ted, do YOU agree that we may have done it to ourselves? If so, then please say it on national television and not in some third grade classroom.

We all want to see what you really believe.

[templar]

They are in 1st and 5th and I dont need the public school teaching them something about 911 contrary to what we have been teaching them all year.

Then don't put them in public school.

[templar]

WHO gives them them the right to determine what will be taught or not.

You do, if you put your children in their schools.

[templar]

The way these kids have been cheated and just passed along without needed skills should be a crime.

Not at all. Both your children and mine will need servants someday.

[BOBTHENAILER]

So who’s really to blame for America’s intolerance?

Good point.

[HELLRAISER II]

I'm not taking up for TiaS or the NEA because I think that they are both wrong, but as to the reading issue. I think that the kids are taught, they just don't learn and what I mean by that is that their parents give no encouragement or support at all. Because they never learned to read themselves so the kids don't see any reason they should have to learn. My wife is a teacher & the parents of some of these kids refuse to let them learn and if their kid gets a failing grade they come up to the school & threaten with lawsuits. The school complies & little Johnny never learns to read or write.

[BOBTHENAILER]

This fella?........

That's the ugly SOB I was thinking of.

[SLB]

We just came back from a 9 day whirlwind trip from Kentucky to Wyoming to see my parents. On the way back we took a long sidetrack through the Black Hills and visited Mount Rushmore. We had three of our children with us. Interesting how a trip to see grandparents can turn into a history lesson. They don't need the NEA to tell them who is responsible for what actions.

[elephantlips]

Naturally the Muslims wouldn't want us to teach in our schools that they were responsible for 9-11. After all, they teach hate of America and Israel as a normal part of their curriculum but should we dare to teach the truth they will be offended and we aren't an offensive country, are we?

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL ! That's what I thought!

[God'sgrrl]

What?? Johnny can't read because the liberal NEA won't challenge our kids to go the distance and they accept little effort in the name of not embarrassing the slow ones..

My first comment referred to the activist aspect of the NEA. "JUST TEACH 'EM to READ PLEASE"

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Thanks for the ping.

Americans see their schools as the place that will help their children make sense of these horrific events and move forward as better people."

Sickning hypocrocy.

I challenge the NEA to give an example of *one* American--one government official, one father of an airline passenger on the jet which hit the first tower, one NYC firefighter, one frightned mother who stayed up for days glued to the television news coverage, one 10 year old boy haunted by the brief images he saw replayed, or one average Joe who has yet to make sense of this horrific event.

"Embrace diversity" my a$$.

[yoe]

Tony and ALL, you can look here also. Go to google and pull up your states NEA; surf until you find a place to send a letter or e-mail. This is what I found other than a family memeber who is a teaching member; "You can also contact a member of News Media Services staff by sending an E-mail with "Help, I'm on deadline!" as the subject.
pcnewsmedia@list.nea.org

Freep this with your e-mail.

[LibertarianLiz]

Suggested lesson plans compiled by the NEA recommend that teachers "address the issue of blame factually," noting: "Blaming is especially difficult in terrorist situations because someone is at fault. In this country, we still believe that all people are innocent until solid, reliable evidence from our legal authorities proves otherwise."

Okay, exactly how much evidence does the NEA need before it is ready to say, "yeah, Islamofacists are to blame"? I'm pretty darn sure that we actually have "solid, reliable evidence" about who is to blame for 9-11.

[yoe]

Tony and ALL, you can look here also. Go to google and pull up your states NEA; surf until you find a place to send a letter or e-mail. This is what I found family ;
"You can also contact a member of News Media Services staff by sending an E-mail with "Help, I'm on deadline!" as the subject.
pcnewsmedia@list.nea.org

Freep this with your e-mail, I just did.