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I give those kids an A for effort.
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You all realize this isn’t a conservative/liberal issue. This issue concerns whether an AP course should be a college level or a high school level course. If you remember the difference between your high school and college history courses you know what I mean.
Since kids are getting college credit, I think it should be a college course, but what do I know.
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Good for them, keep it up until there is actual change, not just a change in talking points.
The board then nixed the lines about patriotism and civil disorder and voted to include students and parents in the process. But this doesn’t seem to have placated all members of the community.
No kidding it hasn’t placated all the members of the community, because they didn’t yet do anything. Until the curriculum is devoid of patriotic propaganda and that tool of a Dentist who sits on the school board is removed, they should not back down.
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One wonders at the mentality of the people who want to polish our history, and ignore the unpleasantness. The way we learn almost anything is by making mistakes, so those folks fall into the group that is doomed to repeat history because they didn’t study it.
Kudos to the students.
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Have the school board members been to a reservation lately? Not a casino rez, but one set up on land no one else wanted that grew nothing.
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They are the same people who claim that "American Exceptionalism"® allows—nay, compels—us to conquer the world and spread our righteousness through force of arms. What we are spreading of course is control of foreign markets to increase profits for a handful of corporations, but that wouldn’t look good on a test…
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Don’t know what triggered this protest, but it’s admirable.
I can’t imagine doing something like this as a high school kid.
We were just too conformist and generally submissive.
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Let’s see, now; who else has tried to rewrite their country’s history to scrub away anything negative and create a glowing, altruistic FALSE record? Oh, yes; Russia, North Korea, Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Malaysia… Just to name a few…
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I do remember a big protest about the school dress code, but something like this? Not so much. I’m impressed, too.
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I’d wager Mitt Romney’s money that those conservatives on the school board were not AP students in high school. AP students are serious about their education, academically competitive, and not easily intimidated. That they chose to stand up for themselves and their peers speaks well for the future.
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American history is far too kind to the Robber Barons, whose fortunes mostly came either directly from the Federal Government, or from business dealings that couldn’t have existed without the Federal Government.
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“…[and do not] encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law…”
Excuse me, but the conservative movement totally wants to encourage that. Something about pruning trees, I believe.
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This school board has merde for its collective brain. All it is doing is putting its students at a disadvantage because the ETS and the College Board will not change the test to accommodate on nutbar school board.
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Let’s see what other countries like to revise history and present only positive and often distorted “truths”, North Korea perhaps, I’m guessing China, Putin’s Russia, Germany before WW 2 seems likely?
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God I really hope Scott Walker loses, so I can thank those dummies from other states for preemptively handicapping their own kids’ college careers. I’m afraid if he wins, he’ll double down on the nonsense in a competitive teabag race to the bottom.
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I hope the kids saw the kids protesting in Hong Kong and got some ideas.
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You’re right, but it’s not as simple as you present it. It’s an attempt to whitewash history to present only those principles and ideals that conservatives value, such as corporatism, trickle down theory, etc., and play down or eliminate any of the more progressive principles such as our history of civil disobedience to effect change, etc.
And then it’s all part and parcel of a much bigger problem, where states, especially Texas because they provide the textbooks for many states, are trying to insert fundamentalist religious BS into history. I mean, there’s a big problem with you find Moses in the section on the Founding Fathers.
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The REALITY is is that local school boards have no legal authority to determine what is in the AP curricula. They were created by COLLEGES in order to meet THEIR standards for the course. AP courses are college courses.
I know. I sat on that board for 5 years.
What is at risk is having those AP classes NOT COUNT for college credit. The curricula is geared towards the test and the test is geared towards what COLLEGES have determined is the criterion for a given course.
Texass is trying pull the same shit. They did, until they were told that none of their students would get college credit, not even at Texass colleges/universities.
There’s also the fact that any local board that tries to revise the standards for AP courses runs the risk of being SUED by the College Board for breach of contract.
These politicians are trying to use schools as brainwashing tools to forward their bullshit agenda.
“He is also a lover of his country who rebukes, and does not excuse its sins.” - Frederick Douglass
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Let’s not forget how bastardized that became. “Deutche Physiks” and Lysenkoism were the Nazi answer to politically incorrect physics and the Soviet answer to incorrect genetics.
In other words, down this path lies complete social collapse.