Hundreds of Colorado students protest history curriculum changes that would promote patriotism | Fox News

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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and then we wonder why this nation is in its decline. If you do not understand, or care to understand, the uniqueness of the United State in history you will squander away your birthright in exchange for the chains of totalitarianism. A generation of useful idiOts indeed.
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  • Posted by gerstj 10 years, 9 months ago
    This sounds like it was instigated by the teachers who are using "impressionable young minds" for ideological purposes. Just more reason for further local review and control of what is taught and assurance that the schools are not just turning out little obedient leftist sheep.
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    • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 9 months ago
      Centralized public education has at its heart the intention to mold young minds with the propaganda devised by those who currently hold power.
      I am in favor of exposing the skeletons in the closets of all the empires that have imposed their will by force. However this must be counter-balanced by the honest reporting of all the good that was done under those regimes.
      To expect any powerful central system of education to do this without bias is naive folly.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 9 months ago
    The teachers are organizing the student protest.
    It’s not that we need to teach or instill patriotism. I think adults can do that by example. I would just like our history not to be taught so pervasively in a negative light.
    Gawd, I hate these teachers who aren’t sensible or balanced enough to avoid didactic ramblings.
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    • Posted by $ 10 years, 9 months ago
      I think civics desperately needs to be taught. If kids do not study the Constitution and what it means to be a US citizen in US society and in the world they will flounder (as they are) and accept whatever they are told. The lack of foundational knowledge in civics is a root problem with society today.

      Example: the Separation of church and state. The 2nd Amendment. Entitlements.

      All of the above are socially misaligned to our country's detriment.
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      • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 9 months ago
        Studying the Constitution and telling someone what kind of citizen they should be are birds of a different feather. This curriculum wouldn’t fly for me either. You should teach young children respect for authority. If you wait till high school to try to adjust one’s thinking to affect behavior, you have waited too long, and you are infringing on their rights to think and make choices for themselves as they near adulthood.
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        • Posted by $ 10 years, 9 months ago
          I do see your point. But teaching history from a US perspective to US citizens is the proper things to do. Teaching the Constitution to US citizens only informs them of their responsibility to themselves in the society they are poised to participate in. I'm not advocating omitting foreign history or philosophies just that they take their proper place (secondary or tertiary) in an American child's perspective. Why should my kids (and they have) learn for several semesters about the Inca's and Aztec's (dead cultures) and only get a sampling of the US Constitution in their junior and senior years in high school? Its absurd.

          The American perspective should be American first and everything else later. This is the same as the the Objectivist view, no? - self first, then others if you so choose.

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  • Posted by Abaco 10 years, 9 months ago
    It's too late. The public education system already strategically omits very important world events in history. These poor dummies...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 9 months ago
    It's great they're protesting instead of respecting authority.
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    • Posted by slfisher 10 years, 9 months ago
      Yes, I agree. American history needs to be taught warts and all, not just a happy feel-good version that teaches kids to do what they're told and tries to keep them from their Constitutional right to protest government actions. Glad to see the kids aren't buying it.
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  • Posted by edweaver 10 years, 9 months ago
    I am not sure that it is necessary to teach in a positive light as is is to teach without the negative. I think American history speaks for itself if it is not portrayed in the negative. I also believe it is no better to teach just a positive light. Simply teach history and let people draw their own conclusions IMHO is the best way.
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