America is going to hell in a hand basket, and our public schools are leading the charge.
Read about more indoctrination, via Gateway Pundit. Will these nightmare stories ever stop?
US Schools to Stop Teaching History; Instead Teachers Will Now Bash “Anglos” and Praise Islam & Castro
"This is insane. Our nation’s schools are going to stop teaching American history. Instead teachers are going to attack 'Anglos' (whitey) and praise Castro and Che.
IBD reported:
Schools Erase America From U.S. History
'Arizona’s new law that requires the police to ask people to show ID, which was just knocked out by a supremacist judge, may not be the most controversial Arizona law about illegal aliens. Gov. Jan Brewer signed another law this year that bans schools from teaching classes designed to promote solidarity among students of a particular ethnic group.
This law bans classes that “promote the overthrow of the United States government” or “promote resentment toward a race or class of people” because schools should treat all pupils as individual Americans. The issue arose because the Tucson School District offers courses in Mexican-American studies (known locally as Raza Studies) that focus on that particular group and its influence.
The law doesn’t prohibit these classes so long as they are open to all students and don’t promote ethnic resentment or solidarity. However, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, says the basic theme of the Mexican-American studies program is that Latino students “were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle- and upper-class whites.”
Among the goals listed for the Mexican-American Studies are “social justice” and “Latino Critical Race Pedagogy.” Pictures of the classroom showed the walls decorated with “heroes,” such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Americans Now ‘Anglos’
Tucson also offers courses especially for African-American and Native American students. These classes obviously divide the student population by race, a practice we thought was not supposed to be tolerated anymore.
Greta Van Susteren interviewed former Tucson high school teacher, John A. Ward, who was removed from teaching the class for Mexican Americans and reassigned because he questioned the curriculum. For raising concerns, Ward was called a racist. And since he is of Mexican heritage, Ward was also called a vendido (Spanish for sellout).
The state of Arizona requires students to take a course in American history in order to graduate, but Ward said the course was actually not about U.S. history at all. He said it focused solely on the history of the Aztec people, which is the group to which Mexican-American activists ascribe their lineage.
Others who have looked at the books used in these courses say they refer to Americans as “Anglos” or “Euroamericans” rather than as “Americans.” The books do not recognize the U.S. as a country, but claim Arizona is part of “Aztlan, Mexico” (even though the Aztecs never lived in what is now the U.S.).
The Mexican version of history is not the only foreign propaganda masquerading as American history in public school courses and textbooks. Five chapters promoting Islam were inserted in a world history textbook that is authorized and recommended for seventh-grade students by the state of California.
Muhammad Praised
This world history textbook, called “History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond,” gives the history and beliefs of Islam lengthy and favorable treatment far above and beyond what is given to every other religion, according to Stephen Schwartz in the Weekly Standard (Aug. 9, 2010).
The textbook uses what he calls a “sanitized vocabulary” to conceal Muslim practices that are criminal in the U.S. These include forced marriage, forced divorce, marriage to children, polygamy and punishments imposed by Shariah law, such as public beheadings, amputations, floggings and stonings.
Muhammad is the only person in this world history textbook who rates an entire chapter. Jesus gets only one sentence, and the contrast between the treatment of Islam and Christianity is shocking.
The book gives an entirely positive account of Muhammad’s teachings, saying, for example, “He preached tolerance for Christians and Jews as fellow worshippers of the one true God.” It says nothing about Jesus’ teachings, but it does describe examples of Christian persecution of non-Christians.
This textbook tells students that the first year in the Muslim calendar is “the year of Muhammad’s hijrah” (his escape from Mecca to Medina in the year 622). The book doesn’t say from what event our Christian calendar dates, instead replacing A.D. with the trendy term “C.E.” (Common Era).
William J. Bennetta, editor of the Textbook Letter, published a detailed analysis of this book’s distortions, which he calls “pseudohistory.” Bennetta documents how it was influenced by a Muslim pressure group, the Council on Islamic Education (CIE), which boasts of successfully “collaborating” with “K-12 publishers” to present a benign view of Islam to impressionable American schoolchildren.
Parents should check out how American history is taught, and NOT taught, in their children’s schools. Is Islamic or Mexican propaganda masquerading as “American history”?'
It’s time to wake up, America!"
Thursday, August 12, 2010
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Yep yep yep. You're right on top of this one!
"U.S. schools to Stop Teaching History"
"Our nation's schools are going to stop teaching American history"
All because something MIGHT be going on in Tucson, Arizona?
Today, Tucson. Tomorrow, the world!
As for your stereotypical rant on all things Muslim, there might be a very logical reason for a book that spends a lot of time discussing Islam and not much time addressing Christianity. The book is supposedly entitled "The Medieval World and Beyond". It might very well be that the "Beyond" doesn't extend all that far, and Christianity wasn't necessarily a huge component of the medieval world. I haven't taught World History in quite a few years, but I don't remember that the "History Alive" series is all that complex or that controversial. And criticizing it for using the terms B.C.E. and C.E. is somewhat superficial and silly; most history textbooks written by historians nowadays (meaning: in the last 25-30 years or so) use that terminology instead of B.C. and A.D. It really is somewhat prejudicial (although not that important, to be honest) to tag EVERYTHING based upon the birth of Jesus. You see, there are several billion people in this world that don't really think their world is centered around Jesus.
Almost all children now believe they go to school to pass exams. The idea that they may be there for an education is irrelevant. State schools have become exam factories, interested only in A to C Grades. They do not educate children. Exam results do not reflect a candidate’s innate ability. Employers have moaned for years that too many employees cannot read or write properly. According to a survey, school-leavers and even graduates lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. More and more companies are having to provide remedial training to new staff, who can’t write clear instructions, do simple maths, or solve problems. Both graduates and school-leavers were also criticised for their sloppy time-keeping, ignorance of basic customer service and lack of self-discipline.
Bilingual Muslims children have a right, as much as any other faith group, to be taught their culture, languages and faith alongside a mainstream curriculum. More faith schools will be opened under sweeping reforms of the education system in England. There is a dire need for the growth of state funded Muslim schools to meet the growing needs and demands of the Muslim parents and children. Now the time has come that parents and community should take over the running of their local schools. Parent-run schools will give the diversity, the choice and the competition that the wealthy have in the private sector. Parents can perform a better job than the Local Authority because parents have a genuine vested interest. The Local Authority simply cannot be trusted.
The British Government is planning to make it easier to schools to “opt out” from the Local Authorities. Muslim children in state schools feel isolated and confused about who they are. This can cause dissatisfaction and lead them into criminality, and the lack of a true understanding of Islam can ultimately make them more susceptible to the teachings of fundamentalists like Christians during the middle ages and Jews in recent times in Palestine. Fundamentalism is nothing to do with Islam and Muslim; you are either a Muslim or a non-Muslim.
There are hundreds of state primary and secondary schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. In my opinion all such schools may be opted out to become Muslim Academies. This mean the Muslim children will get a decent education. Muslim schools turned out balanced citizens, more tolerant of others and less likely to succumb to criminality or extremism. Muslim schools give young people confidence in who they are and an understanding of Islam’s teaching of tolerance and respect which prepares them for a positive and fulfilling role in society. Muslim schools are attractive to Muslim parents because they have better discipline and teaching Islamic values. Children like discipline, structure and boundaries. Bilingual Muslim children need Bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods, who understand their needs and demands.
None of the British Muslims convicted following the riots in Bradford and Oldham in 2001 or any of those linked to the London bombings had been to Islamic schools. An American Think Tank studied the educational back ground of 300 Jihadists; none of them were educated in Pakistani Madrasas. They were all Western educated by non-Muslim teachers. Bilingual Muslim children need bilingual Muslim teachers as role models. A Cambridge University study found that single-sex classes could make a big difference for boys. They perform better in single-sex classes. The research is promising because male students in the study saw noticeable gains in the grades. The study confirms the Islamic notion that academic achievement is better in single-sex classes.
Iftikhar Ahmad
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
And, thankfully, we're not in England, or else we might be talking about turning public schools into a religious schools, basedupon the predominant religion of the school population. We don't ascribe to that nonsense here in the United States, thank goodness.
If Muslim parents, or Jewish parents, or Catholic parents, or fundamentalist evangelical Christian parents want their children to be taught about "their culture, languages and faith alongside a mainstream curriculum" get thee to a private religious school. It's perfecty legal to do so.
Just don't expect public tax dollars to follow to the private school of your choice. you may believe that in England,but not here... unless you're a Religious Rightwingnut who thinks they can pick and choose where their tax dollars go!
No, only the "geniuses" such as yourself and the corrupt politicians should decide where taxpayer money should go.
The people who actually work for the money should have no say at all.
This is another example of why you're such an idiot and only want to save your own job.
You have a say, JustaDumbass... the same say that I have: the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
If you don't understand how a representative democracy/republic works, buy "The Idiot's Guide to Politics". Make sure you get the special Rightwingnut edition, because it comes with cartoons to explain the big words.
No, the average American doesn't really have a say.
Sure, a person can only choose between the lesser of two evils.
Most all politicians are corrupt and self serving.
I know you have an obama shrine with candles, but he is just as corrupt as any of the others.
I don't need to look at cartoons to figure that out, while you on the other hand get that tingly feeling when your idol, the skinny kenyan speaks.
I can think for myself, i don't need help from George Bush, commie obama or any other self serving gov't idiot such as yourself.
How does the inside of your ass look?
Wait a sec... hold on!
You... can.... THINK?
At least one of us can.
It doesn't take a law degree to figure it out.
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