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Texas Textbooks that brainwash
I tried to find this story on CNN and MSNBC but I couldn’t find it anywhere but Fox (for National news). I couldn’t. Seriously, I couldn’t. Go to Google news and Fox, along with some conservative blogs/websites, are the only ones talking about this subject. Which is really very funny because both conservative and liberals are being vocal.
Why should we care? This is going on in Texas, not every state, right? Wrong. Texas is one of the biggest buyer of textbooks, which means they have the most say over what textbooks are used in about 90% of America’s public schools.
The battle right now is over what will be taught in social studies and history. From the mindset of the right:
It’s a battle Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, is watching closely, "Well, if you grab the minds of the young people you grab the minds of the next generation." Sekulow believes a child’s school board meeting is the most important governmental event a parent can plug into. "Parents don’t check their rights to raise their children at the door to the schoolhouse," Sekulow cautions. He knows the stakes are high this week in Texas because, "This curriculum, once established, will affect a generation of students – how they think.
Don’t put ‘God’ in public school banners
Multiple choice question:
Which banners do you think the public schools had a problem with?
A – a 35 to 40 foot string of Tibetan prayer flags with images of Buddha
B – a poster with the lyrics from John Lennon’s song “Imagine” (which starts off, Imagine there’s no Heaven)
C – a poster with Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi’s “7 Social Sins”
D – a poster of Muslim leader Malcolm X
E – a poster of Buddhist leader Dali Lama
F – a banner with red, white, and blue stripes hung on the wall for twenty-five years and displayed the famous patriotic phrases: “In God We Trust,” “One Nation Under God,” “God Bless America,” and “God Shed His Grace on Thee.”
G – a banner, which had been displayed for seventeen years, contained an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence: “All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator.”
If you chose F & G you would be right. A judge told off the school telling them that all religions must be tolerated and not just the ones they want to pick and choose. Can you believe that had to go all the way to the court system?
Thou Shalt Not Teach Religion…unless its Islam
There is a slight problem going on in Alexandria townships in New Jersey with their middle schools curriculum:
At a curriculum forum in the Middle School library last night, about 30 parents shared their opinions of the text and of teacher Brian McGrath’s assignments on the topic….
Controversy over the text and an assignment requiring students to create a mini-Quran drew about two dozen teachers, administrators and school board
members as well as the parents….
Several parents said the information about Islam was too nuanced for sixth-graders to understand and that the book read like a religious text. “Why are so many pages dedicated to Islam?” asked one parent. “The book goes above and beyond what a sixth-grader should be doing at this point.”….
So, long story short – the school says that they must indoctrinate teach the kids about different cultures and how they affect the American way of life. I mean, it is a social studies class, right? After much searching I found out that the book in question is part of the “History Alive” programs. Those who know me will not be shocked to learn that I dug up some info on this program.
Schools know better than Parents
I’m really getting tired of the school system telling our teens that their parents are wrong. Gee, no wonder why parents can’t get control of their kids! Everytime the teens turn around the government or the school system is telling kids that their parents are wrong and it is okay to keep secrets from us. (Gee, its a sexual predators paradise! The authorities have already instilled the thought that parents don’t need to know……)
AMES, Iowa — A teen sex magazine will stay on the shelves at the Ames Public Library despite a petition signed by more than 100 parents objecting to the publication.
Copies are placed out two at a time for teens to take home without requiring sign-out.
So, I went to the website to see if this should be given out to kids. First of all, it isn’t just a magazine, it is a forum. Kids can log on to their
computers and get a strangers advice or other teens advice on their sexual activities.
Here is their poll question that is up today and the percentage of votes:
Should parents be able to have their children opt out of sex ed in school?
Appeals go forth in the Corbett Case
I told you about this case on May 4. It is a teacher who hates religion so much that he forces all people of faith to feel as if they are second class citizens in his classroom. One brave student began to tape the lectures, first as an aide for note taken, then to document that hate filled lectures that this High School history teacher spewed.
From the tapes:
· “When you put your Jesus glasses on you can’t see the truth”
· “People in the industrial world lease likely to go to Church are the Swedes. The people in the Industrial world more likely to go to Church are the Americans. America has the highest crime rate of all industrial nations and Sweden the lowest. The next time someone tells you that religion is connected to morality, you might want to ask them about that.”
· He called the Boy Scouts of America racist
· He cracked a joke about a Viagra…etc…and that a side effect is deafness – he somehow felt the need to put this together and say: “So if you run into someone who is, you know, deaf and whose pants felt stiff, he’s probably using the drug…..they’re happy but they’re deaf.”
School starting soon!
Hi all –
I wanted to let you all know that I will not be able to put up any new posts for about a week. My kids are starting school next week and I will be starting college (at age 39!) at the end of the month. Needless to say, things will be hectic. So, I thought I would leave this post open if you all have anything you may want to discuss. Consider it an early Saturday Mixer post. The Closed on Sunday post will go up as scheduled so you can get the readings.
Love to all!
Parents? What’s that?
The Catholic News Agency reports:
The Modesto City School Board on Monday voted to allow junior high and high school students to leave campus during the school day for “confidential medical services,” …. without the consent or knowledge of their parents.
Karen England, executive director of the pro-family lobbying group Capitol Resource Institute, attended the meeting and reported that four people testified in favor of “excluding parents.” Three were from Planned
Parenthood while one was described as an “activist.”
School district attorney Roman Munoz said the new policy updates district regulations to conform to a provision of the state Education Code which took effect in 1986.
The relevant section of the Education Code says the governing board of each school district in each academic year should notify pupils in grades 7 to 12 and their parents and guardians that school authorities may “excuse any pupil from the school for the purpose of obtaining confidential medical services without the consent of the pupil’s parent or guardian.”
England said the law “provides permission” for implementing confidential medical release but “certainly does not impose a mandate.”
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