Teaching Progressive/Leftist Ideology in our Schools

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  1. ButterBalls

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    I was going off my aunt and her experience teaching in the bay area some 35 years.. One thing she was adamant about was it was hard not being a Democrat, well if you can actually label that age group/hippie as such.. Don't get me wrong, the teachers then adhered to standard and we all had some mundane social study stuff, but those then have evolved.. What we see todays is way over the top, and I do believe this is the result of agenda driven instructors then and now..

    Little nudges over a half century make their mark..

    I'll always remember the faces of those Children used to sing the Obama song. Some looked so confused some looked pleased but the most rewarded was the trainer or should I say Teacher?
     
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    The most sound way to adapt to this situation which is genetically sound and politically acceptable while making us stronger as a species is to promote higher levels of interracial marriage. If we do this while having public funded education through college we can’t help but succeed.
     
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    I understand where you're coming from here, but if you or anyone else was to answer my question as to whether they've seen a Republican or a Conservative ever race bait or call someone from the left an outright racist etc. the way we see leftists calling Trump and his supporters every racist name imaginable, then I would agree with you that I was making broad assumptions about you.

    The only stereotyping I see when discussing 'race' issues is that its the left that uses race baiting and race identification (identity politics) as a part of their ongoing agenda to make those of us on the right look like we're all deplorable racists. I just haven't seen a Republican or a Conservative sink as low as to use a person's skin color to make a political or cultural point.

    The only time I will ever stereotype someone (such as a black) is by debating someone who actually uses a stereotyping attack on someone of another race or another political party.

    I disagree with you that we Whites have this dominating vision. I see those hostilities directed at we Whites from minorities coming strictly from the left side of the political spectrum. This is just my opinion, but these minorities with their white liberal counterparts having a disgust and or hatred for anything or anyone associated with Conservative Capitalism will use the race issue (identity politics) as a cudgel against us who more times than not have moved up the ladder to success. So this White dominated vision that you speak of is actually a vision seen by those in poor or minority populated regions that have yet to get on the capitalist bandwagon. No White person I know of has this White dominated vision.
     
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    When I was in high school, in the 70’s, they started letting people use calculators on math tests, especially those standardized tests, which I always thought of as cheating. I think my college professors did too as they tended to ban calculators, especially programmable ones, when tests were being taken. However, a math teacher I had in high school once told me that those who do poorly without a calculator, tend to also do poorly with one.
     
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    How odd I was thinking about this today. Anyway, I remember the first kid who had a calculator in high school. Cost him $150. In 1972. Okay, I said it was odd. Lol.
     
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    I’m quite certain that the Trump’s insistence that Obama’s birth certificate was not valid was a result of the Trump’s racial bigotry, as was his wall scheme. It’s repeated verbal attacks on reporters of color or women further illustrated its bigoted persona. Same with The travel ban on Muslims.

    In the 1950’s there were liberal Republicans and conservative Republicans, liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Blacks, those who were allowed to vote, split their votes almost equally between the parties. By the time of Reagan the Republican Party had become the party of Evangelicals, causing liberals and Blacks to flee the party and take up residency in the Democratic Party. What changed? Civil Rights legislation in 1964 and 1968.
     
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    That’s exactly right. Whenever you allow students to use added technology which they will have available in the real world, you just expect more out of them. There are many approaches you can use in math to test for understanding that a calculator can’t help you with. A good math teacher should adapt. For example, just punching in numbers and getting a solution is one thing but demanding the student know the algorithm needed to get that solution is another.
     
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    Here is the difference: minorities really don’t care what’s in someone’s “heart” as it means little to them. If a conservative legislator swears up and down that he/she is not prejudicial in their mind and even to the extent they adopt a minority minor or even marry or have close friends that are a minority it’s not enough. A person in power needs to support legislation and act in ways that affect the lives of minorities, regardless. They also have to put minorities in power and listen to them. The left at least makes that attempt. The right, seriously ? Trump had a history of taking advantage of people, including minorities for his s own benefit. Just because he treated everyone like sht, doesn’t make it OK with a minority. The entire gop supports a white minority rule in action. That’s all that matters.
     
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    Thank you for appreciating that you do indeed have alternative perceptions that do NOT jibe with factual reality as evidenced by the content of your posts.

    So let's pick Arabic from your list and examine what Liberty ACTUALLY teaches their students.

    https://waccglobal.org/how-jerry-falwell-jr-is-spreading-islamophobia/

    So from the TOP DOWN the religious hatemongering dogma is clear and therefore a class about Arabic is NOT going to be without anti-Muslim bias.

    THAT is the factual REALITY that your biased perspective IGNORES and DISMISSES.

    All of the rest of us can see it as clear as daylight.
     
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    :roflol:

    Oh the IRONY coming from someone using the term "LIBHATER" to describe themselves on this forum.

    Then there are STEREOTYPES in Libhater's signature!

    That FLUSHING sound is Libhater's credibility disappearing thanks to the CONTENT of his own posts.

    Sad!

    :roflol:
     
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    America's biggest divide is between urban and everybody else. It is why the democrats can't get traction on the $15 minimum wage. San Fran Nancy thinks it is "reasonable" and people who don't live in Big Blue America knows it will spread the homeless problem the same way those inflated wages have in every blue city that has them. Rural America cannot afford $15 per hour wages. Their economies are already stagnating or contracting.
     
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    When I went to college I went to “a” university which people referred to as “the” university. Whatever happened to the the and a?
     
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    I assume you mean UVA. They were an arrogant lot back in the day, not that they are any less full of themselves today.
     
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    You're minimizing.

    A great op-ed in the Star Tribune describes the proposed standards. Hit the link and read the whole thing for a horrifying exposé of how the Left plans to brainwash the next generation of Americans, Some excerpts:

    By 2022, your first-grader will be mandated to recognize “stereotypes,” “biased speech,” and “injustice at the institutional or systemic level.”
     
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    No, just in general. I regularly hear people say something like, I went to university, or when I went to university. But is it not proper to say, I went to college at the University of Wherever? And not to say I went to university. Similar is the dropping of the the and a before hospital. As in I went to hospital, instead of I went to the hospital. Yes, I agree it was probably started by a group who thought they were being cool or whatever. Possibly trying to sound like those who speak English as a second language but doesn’t quite have it down. But it seems to be growing in popularity.
     
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    Americans tend to refer to it as college instead of university. Eponymous state schools tend to begin with "The University of ...." which probably helps explain the "The" phenomenon. The only one I know who made it their kind of unofficial name was University of Virginia. My dad said back in the 80's instead of official college gear saying UVA, it said "The University"
     
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    What you are parroting is the “opinion” of Right-wing propaganda, which, as usual does not square with reality. The actual standards are as follows:


    While much of sounds a little goofy to me, it doesn’t come close to the silliness that you are trying to peddle.


    In case you want to know, Whiteness appeared rather suddenly about 38,000 years ago, during the ice age, along the banks of the then frozen Baltic Sea. To this day, the Whitest people in the world live around the Baltic Sea. DNA studies have shown that Continental Europeans are the result of a wave of Asians from the Middle East, a wave of Asians from Central Asia, and a wave of Whites from the north. Thus most White people aren’t all that White.

    Not sure about your movement’s White problem. Especially when the demographics seem to indicate that y’all are mostly non-college educated White men. College educated White men and White women are more likely to side with the Democrats. So obviously liberals don’t have a problem with being White. In fact, liberalism is a White thing. It grew out of Northern European culture. The most liberal countries in the world are also the Whitest.
     
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    My reference is via the UK where I spent nearly 40 years in education and is the way uni is described.
     
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    I've explained my moniker here many times before as it being my extreme hatred for modern day liberalism,
    and not a hate for people whatsoever. So now that I got that out of the way, I see I have some other more
    reasonable responses to get to. So have a nice day!
     
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    Surely you're joking. Obama's birth certificate was fake as his real birth certificate was shown by his estranged half brother coming out of somewhere in Africa. But because Trump and many other people questioned his birth certificate origin...makes him a racist? Wow! What repeated verbal attacks on people of color were any different than his verbal attacks on any loon leftist despite the color of their skin? What would race have anything to do with his verbal attacks? That would be like calling that black loon idiot don lemon on cnn a racist for verbally attacking Trump almost on a daily basis for 4 years. Travel ban on Muslims? Well duh, weren't they the people responsible for so many terrorist attacks on America? Why do you insist on bringing race up with every issue concerning Trump?

    And your point is?
     
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    A person in power needs to support legislation and act in ways that affect the lives of minorities, regardless? They also have to put minorities in power and listen to them? WOW! The very idea that people in power have to use identity politics when describing minorities to give them special needs or a undeserved rise or appointment in our government etc. is the epitome of racist action. I suppose you're all for giving blacks reparations and having blacks go to the head of the class when vying for a spot in a college or a university. You know, they (blacks) because they are a so-called depressed minority get first dibs and admission into a university like Harvard ahead of a more qualified white.
    You say Trump has a history of taking advantage of people including minorities for his own benefit? WOW! Did he take advantage of Ben Carson?
    Just because he treated everyone like sht, doesn't make it OK with a minority? WOW! First off, most all lefties especially those in the lame street media have always treated Trump like sht, so now its wrong for Trump to give it right back to them? According to you its not OK for Trump to treat minorities like sht, but I guess its OK for him to treat leftist whites like sht? Have I got that right?
     
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    Thank you so much for posting a piece of good news.Maybe now our young will be able to understand the difference between a Marxist and a Social Democrat
    Well done.
     
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    Today's young are unfortunately exposed to nothing but this progressive/socialist/marxist anti American garbage from
    K-12 right through to schools of higher education with the far left professors taking total control. Its ashamed, but its a fact.
    How's that saying go......If you're not a liberal by age 20 you have no heart, and if you're not a Conservative by age 30 you have no brain.
     

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