- ex post facho
- Oct 25, 2007
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A bunch of students here in Colorado are walking out of school today because Republicans are hypocritical idiot assholes (but I repeat myself):
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/student-walk-outs-possible-at-pomona-arvada-west-and-ralston-valley-high-schools-tuesday
quote:Students at Arvada, Arvada West and Ralston Valley high schools have been planning online for walkouts.
A 7NEWS viewer said students walked out of Golden High School a little after 9 a.m.
The dispute is over an effort to review how classes like Advanced Placement U.S. History are taught.
The school district proposed creating a panel that would make sure materials do not "encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law."
That has many students, parents and educators concerned about censorship.
"What we really want is a promise from them that they won't restrict the content that is taught in our classes," said student Eric Temple. "Because we believe that if they restrict that content then we're not going to get the education that we think we should."
A Facebook page called Arvada West Walk Out said: "The plan is to walk out during the passing period between advisement and 3rd period on Tuesday, September 23rd. The point is to make a statement about being against these changes, so instead of simply leaving the school we will line up along 64th with posters, signs, anything that shows that we are standing up for ourselves and our teachers."
A similar Facebook page was created by Pomona High School students encouraging the same thing.
At least a hundred students from Evergreen High School protested Monday at the Jefferson County School District headquarters on Denver West Boulevard. A handful had the chance to meet with Superintendent Daniel McMinimee.
Students said they found some agreement from the superintendent, who told them he also opposes a curriculum review board.
However, that idea was tabled by the school board without a vote.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/education/2014/09/18/jeffco-curriculum-committee-us-history/15853797/
quote:[JeffCo Board of Education Member] Julie Williams says this is necessary after all the changes to academic standards under the Common Core movement.
"When there is enough discussion around the country, it warrants looking into," Williams said.
The second part of the proposal reads in part, "Materials should promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights. Materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law."
"I don't think we should encourage kids to be little rebels," Williams said. "We should encourage kids to be good citizens."
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Williams says the committee would only focus on curriculum and materials and have no bearing on teacher's evaluation.
"I don't think there's any harm," Williams said. "Only good can come out of that."
Williams says she just wants to make sure students get an objective view.
"I want to bring history back to be taught accurately without opinion," Williams said.
This ties back to this, of course:
http://www.newsweek.com/textbook-case-bad-textbooking-texas-272351
quote:The latest “experts don’t know as much as me” nonsense has emerged in one of the worst places possible: high school textbooks. Over the past few months, a new set of books has emerged from the nation’s publishers, the first since the State Board of Education in Texas, driven by political conservatives and Christian evangelicals, adopted standards in 2010 for what should be included in them. And the decisions by Texans don’t just inflict this foolishness on Texas kids; because the state is such a huge purchaser of school textbooks, publishers often opt to print whatever the Lone Star State wants for students all over the country.
Now the books based on those standards are out, and, unsurprisingly, history and knowledge have been tossed aside in favor of politics, propaganda and faith. The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, a group organized to strengthen public schools and counter the influence of the Christian right in education, asked experts—people with doctorates who teach these topics at university levels—to review the textbooks, and their opinions were scathing.
Did you know Moses played a role in the writing of the U.S. Constitution? I didn’t. Apparently neither did the Founding Fathers, since he’s not mentioned in the Federalist Papers or any other relevant document. But students reading Perfection Learning’s new textbook on American history will think Moses was right up there with John Locke and Charles de Montesquieu in influencing Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and their brethren. What role did Moses supposedly play? The textbook claims he contributed the concept that “a nation needs a written code of behavior.” Forget the biblical ignorance shown in suggesting Moses provided the code for a “nation” rather than for the Jewish people, who had no nation (failing to reach the Promised Land was kind of key to the Book of Deuteronomy). Forget the legal ignorance in suggesting the Constitution had anything to do with a “code of behavior” rather than establishing democratic government and the rights guaranteed to citizens. Forget the historical ignorance in suggesting that the first laws came from Moses when the sixth Amorite king of Babylon established one of the first written set of laws, known as Hammurabi's Code, hundreds of years earlier.
The bottom line is that the state of Texas should be excised from existence.
ex post facho fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 23, 2014
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- Oct 25, 2007
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I'm not quite sure how Republicans could get more tone deaf than they now appear to be, but ~*~nature finds a way~*~
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