| Political correctness at forefront of new draft high school standards |
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| by Will Lutz | Tue, Oct 30, 2007, 04:49 PM |
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Texas high school students won't know much about economics, the Founding Fathers, the constitution, the development of common law, John Locke, Adam Smith, or the achievements of Ronald Reagan, if new social studies standards proposed for public comment are enacted. But they will be able to summarize Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech and they will learn to “provide a historical perspective of xenophobia and its impact on immigration policies in the United States.”
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written by Dave , October 30, 2007 Another reason the world is overtaking us. As American students learn how to be PC, Asian students learn actual useful things like math, econ, and the sciences. More power to them. The PC establsihment of American education deserves what is coming.
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written by lol , October 31, 2007 It is the liberal world. It is the world where a chosen few who believe themselves to have high intelligence, to whom all things are plain, wish, for our own good, to establish rules for us to live by, dictate attitudes to adopt, and apply standards for all to observe. No Christian, no matter how fundamental, is as doctrinaire and closed-minded as far-left neo-liberals, nor as hypocritical in their lives.
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written by Caroline Walker , October 31, 2007 I attended one of the meetings of Sandy Kress' task force on higher ed, and it looked like they were getting lots of input from both members of the business community -- who were complaining that their entry-level hires are dumb as posts -- to higher education specialists who testified that the high school standards are too broad and general, and ought to be deeper and more specific. That all sounded good. But if they're going to sign off on the same ol' pc nonsense, we are indeed lost. On another topic -- I ran into a friend of mine recently who teaches math in a "high needs" elementary school. I asked her what she's learned from the experience. She answered, do whatever you have to do to send your kids to private school.
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written by Don Van Slyke , October 31, 2007 Is Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Anti-xenophobia training what Texas House Bill 1 meant by "develop college preparatory standards"? I notice that the TEA/THECB draft has no mention of the words "sovereign", "federalist" or "republic". Those words would not be politically correct. Write comment
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