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ORIGINAL: Kirata
8th Grade Class Receives Immigration Assignment that Leaves One Dad Shaking His Head

At Shattuck Middle School in Wisconsin, one 8th grade class was assigned homework on the topic of immigration policy in the United States using the following illustration...



The homework assignment asks:

Who are the men in the picture (What is their job? Look at what they are doing for a hint)
What are they building?
What do the symbols on their shirts represent?
What is action being done by each man?
What might this mean to us about immigration and citizenship?

What could possibly be wrong with this?

Jim Strick, the Communications Director for the Neenah Joint School District, confirmed to IJ Review that Davis did in fact assign the politically-charged worksheet. However, Strick was adamant that the assignment was not intended to shape the children’s political views...

Yeah, no.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata
Wisconsin Mom Alarmed at What School Quiz Suggests Conservatives Think About the Poor

Students at Nathan Hale High School were asked to place this and other statements on a political spectrum...

We should not help the poor, it’s a waste of money.

The answer scored as correct is Conservative/Republican.



The student’s mother told Fox News the correction bothered her son... “We tend to only see what they are learning as parents when they need our assistance on something. I think that all parents need to realize that there are things taught sometimes to their kids that aren’t true or at best are misleading.”

This is what they want more money to teach?

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The appearance to me is that the educational system is teaching pure politics under some other guise. I don't view this as a good idea.

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Thank you for your reply, joether, but you seem to have screwed up the quotes.

Could you please fix that? I want to have this one bronzed.

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ORIGINAL: joether

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The appearance to me is that the educational system is teaching pure politics under some other guise. I don't view this as a good idea.

Yes we shouldn't teach students about freedom of speech, individual rights, and right to choose one's religious views. Those are all political topics. According to you, we should not teach anything related to US History. Because much of US History is based around politics. Brown verse Board of Education, is a historical moment in US History. But it is also a political viewpoint at the time. There are people today, whom feel we should force students to accept Creationism right next to actual science. Tell me that's not pushing politics and religion down someone's throat?

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Nothing wrong here. The image is quite neutral. Its showing a slice of American history (very recent US History). It shows the Democrats helping people enjoy being free and Republicans as the scum they are. Nope, don't see any problem with it. Its not politically charged, because anyone with half a brain could tell this image is an all true statement about the two major political parties on the topic of immigration.

What? Dont have half a brain?

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Dont see any problem here either.....

The statement: "We should not help the poor, it’s a waste of money.", is indeed a conservative/Republican viewpoint.

Should we not teach students true information rather that political ideology? Saying that conservative/Republican viewpoint of helping the poor and its a good use of the taxpayer money, would be a falsehood. Its the stuff FOX 'new's would try to pass off as true.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

as to this:

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Nothing wrong here. The image is quite neutral. Its showing a slice of American history (very recent US History). It shows the Democrats helping people enjoy being free and Republicans as the scum they are. Nope, don't see any problem with it. Its not politically charged, because anyone with half a brain could tell this image is an all true statement about the two major political parties on the topic of immigration.

What? Dont have half a brain?

and this:

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Dont see any problem here either.....

The statement: "We should not help the poor, it’s a waste of money.", is indeed a conservative/Republican viewpoint.

Should we not teach students true information rather that political ideology? Saying that conservative/Republican viewpoint of helping the poor and its a good use of the taxpayer money, would be a falsehood. Its the stuff FOX 'new's would try to pass off as true.

...its unfathomable to me that someone could actually believe that...

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

I posted this in the helicopter parent thread, it works here too. its a quote by engels, one of the fathers of communism:

“With the transfer of the means of production into common ownership, the single family ceases to be the economic unit of society. Private housekeeping is transformed into a social industry. The care and education of the children becomes a public affair..."

contemporary elementary and secondary education (not to mention college) is awash with examples like what you've shared, some blatant, some surreptitious. i'll do some looking around and post some actual examples that occur in school, as well as some statements that illustrate the invidiousness of the leftist philosophy concerning education.