American heroes could get swapped for hip-hop culture in textbooks
According to Neiman at sayanythingblog.com:
Is this a situation wherein we must consider States Rights, respect the elected and/or appointed members of state school boards and solely trust professional educators to design the educational curriculum; or should the parents demand that a state or local school board submit such changes to the larger vote of the people before making such changes and investing their money in textbooks that do not accurately reflect the history of our nation or the will of the people?
How do we, the voters, the source of all such funding, force these politically correct, extreme liberals from rewriting our history to fit within their political ideology. It is a damn mess!
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According to worldnetdaily.com:
A state board of only 15 people will vote on whether to revise U.S. textbooks to omit references to Daniel Boone, Gen. George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.
The Texas State Board of Education will also vote on a proposal to substitute the term “American” with “global citizen.”
According to Liberty Counsel, some of the suggestions that have come forward at various times include:
* Removing references to Daniel Boone, General George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.
* Including the cultural impact of hip-hop music, ACLU lawyer Clarence Darrow and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.
* Replacing the term “American” with “global citizen” – stating that students need to be shaped “for responsible citizenship in a global society” without any mention of citizenship in American society.
* Replacing expansionism and free enterprise with imperialism and capitalism.
Staver said one proposal suggests the name of Nathan Hale, a patriot of the American Revolutionary War, be removed and replaced with the name of a man who invented fireman helmets. He also said one proposal suggests removal of references to Independence Day.
“Those are no good anymore,” Staver told Mike Huckabee. “America is looked at, not as some country that gave liberty and freedom to others around the world, but as a global villain.”
He warns, one proposal suggests take the Declaration of Independence and literally erasing God from its Preamble.
“A lot of the history – particularly religious history or patriotic history and American exceptionalism – all of that will simply be removed if people around the country don’t speak up,” he said.
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Indoctrinating children is nothing new. Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, and many others knew the future success of their evil, sinister plans was to start with the children. Unfortunately, we all know the destructive footprints that these evil dictators left upon the world.
America does have some dark days in our 234 year history, but it is what it is. Distorting that history by adding to or removing from it would be a travesty for future generations.
because. . . .
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. ~ Tyron Edwards
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“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Destroy the family, you destroy the country.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.” - Karl Marx
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” - Josef Stalin
"We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” - Nikita Khrushchev
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future.” - Adolf Hitler, 1935
“Each year the child is coming to belong more to the State and less and less to the parent.” - Ellwood P. Cubberley, Conceptions of Education (1909)
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E-mail the Texas State Board of Education to voice your outrage: sboesupport@tea.state.tx.us
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