I call BS. The School district and teacher are obviously idiots, propagandists and liars. They claim there are not right or wrong answers, but clearly marked some wrong and that it was a survey and no name was associated... then how did they know who to give the papers back to? Mule muffins!
"Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227)." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...

No tenure, or NEA! No Department of Education (misnomer: Department of Indoctrination)!
Local control and School choice!

As a teacher in Texas I can swear to you that I will NEVER allow such as this in my classroom!

When I was younger, I was taught the basic philosophies of the Republicans were that when business prospers, the economy prospers and when the economy prospers the people prosper. Democrats believed that when the people prosper, the economy prospers and business did well. Basically, Republicans saw it as businesses drove the economy and Democrats thought the people drove the economy. Fast forward 40 years and now the Republicans are fighting government overreach and the Democrats are pushing government control of our life. My children (24 and 26) are staunch conservatives because I have taught them while they were growing up, to work for what you want and you will never be beholden to anyone. Most in this generation are taught to be forever the victim.

One of my children made a poor job choice in a job change and came to me asking for money to help them out. The first thing I said to that child was "When did you become a Democrat?" That was the last time I was asked to help out.. Needless to say, that child was able to figure out a way to pay their bills by working for it.

I don't agree with the concept or the answers on this test.

One minor nit: The article says toward the end the test didn't have "right" answers, but it did. The student was supposed to say Republicans don't believe in helping the poor, which is wrong but the test considered "correct".

The entire test was over-simplified. As JB says it didn't mention objectivists/libertarians.

Conservatives believe in helping the poor help themselves. Democrats don't care about the poor except to buy their votes with trinkets and baubles. As long as democrats can keep poor people enslaved, they guarantee their place in the power chain.

and question 6 applies equally to both A and B,
because they both take the "riches" by force. -- j

these groups give as much away as the dems.

This is what we are going to have, if we keep on
having public, taxpayer-funded education. I believe
that government has one, and only one, proper,
basic function--to protect man from force (includ-
ing fraud) and violence, and to punish same (so
as to provide for just revenge); and education,
except maybe for technical police/military
training,(and possibly training in what the law
is) does not come under that. Beside which,
public education (other than what I just men-
tioned) can, and will, and does, and must, lead
to government thought control; it should be
abolished as soon as can be accomplished.
The same people who devise tests like
this might very well be against compul-
sory or officially sanctioned prayer in
school; I remember what that was like,
and that my second-grade teacher picked
on me because I didn't go to church (this
was a public school in 1959-1960); but
it can go one way as well as the other;
neither is right.

Remember Montessori.

I think first you must force them to define "help."

Is help a simple handout or is help the opportunity to become self-sufficient? Handout does not = being or getting self-sufficient. I would put it as Democrats want to help the Poor STAY poor, and Conservatives want to help the poor not be poor.

Common Core Political Education. Government Mandated, Government Approved.

The lesson being taught is "You WILL believe as we do, or you will fail." I liked it better when kids were taught tools that enabled skills and critical thinking, not politico-socialist indoctrination.

As I remember - schools in the Eastern Bloc and Fascist Germany were required to have similar political indoctrination classes throughout school, to produce "correct-thinking" proles and dedicated party leadership.

It is not per se a bad idea for high schoolers to have some idea what various ideologies advocate, although teaching on a position by position basis is inferior to teaching the premises of each ideology. What is disturbing is the use of the left/right two dimensional worksheet viewing fascism and communism as opposites. The students should be exposed to the Nolan Chart instead.

Actually, the correct answer is "A" - Communists. By their own motto - "if you don't work, you don't eat."

They waste their time giving quizzes like this when they could be teaching our children valuable things like the Constitution of the United States.

I don't really care what they think the political parties' platforms are. I want kids to know the limits of the Federal Government one way or the other!

Wouldn't it have been interesting to see Objectivist as an option on the quiz?

Scary test. Why don't they add in some racial profiling questions while they're at it, and even some north v south stereotypes?
As for the political spectrum, the one-dimensional version has been utterly discredited.
The two-dimensional "Political Compass" test has much more going for it:
https://www.politicalcompass.org/test