[Textbooks were devoid of American racial history, genocide, and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offering politically correct brainwashing, intended to produce harmless, useful automatons (SEE: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America). These kids and their teachers represent the True Spirit of America more than any half-assed politicians or bureaucrats.]
Denver students stage mass walk-out over US history ‘censorship’
Still from YouTube video/Kent Micho
http://ct1.addthis.com/static/r07/sh173.html#
Hundreds of Denver-area high school students walked out their classrooms in a mass protest against what they call an attempt to censor their history curriculum by refocusing it on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and obedience.
Students at six Denver-area highs schools walked out their classrooms en masse, protesting a plan by the conservative-majority Jefferson County school board to push for curriculum changes to Advanced Placement history courses to promote patriotism and deference to authority. The proposed changes would include the removal of topics that could ‘encourage’ civil disobedience from textbooks and materials.
The protest was organized through social media, encouraging students to stand outside the Jefferson County School Administrative Building with placards which read “People didn’t die so we erase them,” “Educate free thinkers,” “There is nothing more patriotic than protest,” and “History is History.”
The student protest comes after teachers at two schools caused a shutdown the week before when they staged a sick-out over the curriculum changes, which the school board says provides a balanced view of American history.
“I understand that they want to take out our very important history of slavery and dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it portrays the US in a negative light,” a high school senior, Casey McAndrew, told CNN.
The proposal calls for establishing a committee that would regularly review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history to make sure materials“promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights,” and don’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law.”
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“The nation’s foundation was built on civil protests,” Tyrone G. Parks, a senior student told the Associated Press. “And everything that we’ve done is what allowed us to be at this point today. And if you take that from us, you take away everything that America was built of.”
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Those students participating in the protest will not be punished but will receive unexcused absences unless their parents request permissions for missed classes, according to school district spokeswoman Lynn Setzer said.
Meanwhile, Jefferson County Superintendent Dan McMinimee tried to calm the tensions saying that no changes in the curriculum have been finalized and renewing his offer to continue discussions on the issue.
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpre...-over-whitewashing-of-american-history-texts/
One thing you have to give the left credit for is their ability to package conformity as rebellion. They have owned the culture lock, stock and barrel for two generations now. Yet they can still convince people, particularly young people, that spouting the party line is "speaking truth to power."
Not gonna find much truth in American high school history books tbh
What does that have to do with the OP?
wow, good drop. i never heard of this. i heard texas recently went through some controversy.
did your have to learn and sing this song in elementary schoo tool? even as a kid i knew they were on that brainwashing lol. i hated that song.
sorry for the typos
I don't remember tbh. What I do remember was having to take ESL classes even though English is my first language.
the TX Repugs/Christian Taliban objective want textbooks that are completely political/religious lies.
I was in an esl class for 5th grade surrounded by a bunch of kids I couldn't understand. I was in there for an hour a day and then rotated around classes while the rest of them stayed in that esl class. I was put in their to help immerse those kids into our "culture", our language. All I remember is them watching sesame street all day.
Lol rich little white kids protesting a class they sleep in.
I don't mind if the cover the negative aspects, as long as it's not to the exclusion of the overwhelmingly positive aspects.
Whenever, wherever Repugs and/or Christians are calling the education shots, books, curricula, the students get dumber and dumber, which is how the Repugs and Christians prefer them, easier to lie to, easier to manipulate.
get ready for round 2 of this, that was a good one
lol winners get to rewrite history
losers u know the rest...
Absolutely.
Idiotic for Colorado to try to change the curriculum for AP history of all things. AP tests are nationalized, and it wouldn't make sense to risk students' grades just to try to control them. '
The other history courses are fair game, though. So long as they don't lie about the events, who cares? History was like the least important subject in school.
Eh, "the left" is constantly shifting. What progressives pushed for 20 years ago would probably seem conservative now.
What you are describing is what common core does, but most christians/republicans hate it/
Republicans suck. Democrats suck. It's a universal constant. Even if one sucks less than the other for whatever reason at that moment, it doesn't change the fact that both parties (and politicians in general) are ty.
I know it might seem impossible, but there are bad people wanting to lie and manipulate the populace on both sides of the aisle, and there always has been. That's what you'll never get, which saddens me, since from the people's perspective, nothing else really compares in importance. It's like, 1A of any realistic look at world politics (even though you won't find THAT in a history book.)
All the crazy capitalizations and absurd distortions and silly nick names for republicans are meaningless as soon (or late) as you realize this fact. If you ever do, you will look back and be angry and ashamed, feelings of TRUE anger and shame, not this fake you post here and convince yourself of in the real world. But you will feel like a new man, so it might be worth it. Or you might be like some and miss the time before, now, when life was ever so much simpler.
None of those peckers give a about the curriculum. They just don't want to go to school. Plain and simple. I hate fake ass like this. Just be honest. Admit that you really don't give a about the cause. You're just there for your own personal gain.
That chick in the purple top and daisy dukes has great legs
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