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The road to a TeaOcracy
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āThe panel would be charged with ensuring that the course materials āpresent positive aspects of the United States and its heritageā and donāt āencourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.ā This approach was drawn up by Julie Williams, a school board member who campaigned for the seat as āthe conservative choice.āā
Thatās called whitewashing history.
It should show accurate aspects of the United States and its heritage, not just positive parts. Our country was founded on civil disorder and disregard of the law. What are they just going to exclude the entire American revolution?
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What great kids!
What a dick school board!
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This is great. Iām happy that there are young people out there, that are willing to show that they wonāt accept this "new and improved " version of history being spoon fed to them.
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Iām pretty sure this country started with an act of civil disobedience.
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So they wonāt be teaching about the Boston Tea PartyāAmericaās seminal act of civil disobedience.
And they also wonāt be teaching about the union movement, the civil rights movement, or the anti-war movement, or anything else of substance.
Naturally, this was designed and promoted by some stupid conservative shitweasel who couldnāt find her own ass with both hands, a flashlight, a search warrant, a map, and three people to help her.
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If it is Advanced Placement History, and the students hope to earn college credits for passing the College Board national test in May, shouldnāt they be adhering to the College Boardās recommended syllabus?
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Iām pretty sure that dictatorships are the only form of government that approves of whitewashing history so that future generations will be improperly educated as dystopian automatons.
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Do these tea party ninnies not get the idea that civil disobedience is the very bedrock of the founding of our country?
Do they not understand what their nattering idiotsā movement is even named for?
For G-dās sakeā¦
Good on the students. They have more sense than the adults that are attempting to destroy their education.
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Apparently these Colorado conservatives donāt regard 2nd Amendment absolutism and 2nd Amendment āremedysā as civil disobedience.
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Iād enjoy this more if they taught the definition of irony to the school board.
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That school board is pushing the fascist agenda. They have no shame.
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Now that is a pretty good point. But I guess if they were savvy enough to see that sort of thing they might not have enlisted as foot soldiers for the robber barons in the first place.
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I am so very, very proud of these kids.
We need this to happen in every school that the Kochs are using (buying) to indoctrinate the kids with this revised history and complete whitewash of our past with fantasy laced throughout.
Everyone who cares about what this country is really founded as well as all itās ugly chapters need to get up and protest as well. The Republicans, The Dominionist, the Christians, The Kochs, the Fān crazy people are trying to take control of every level of our lives by getting voted in to every level of govt. The schools are where they are really going to try and indoctrinate our kids with their warped views of Libertarianism. We must stop them from doing this to our schools and their curriculum. We will go back 150 years if we continue to let them control the school textbooks and information.
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Ludicrous revisionist history. They may have gotten away with it in some previous era. But as this protest proves, students are ahead of the information collection game, and not only will such whitewashing attempts be scuttled, students know EXACTLY who tried to do it.
Well into adulthood.
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Right on, kids! (aka young adults)!
How impressive to see them standing up for something important and drawing national attention to the issue facing them. I wish I was as aware, organized, and motivated as a high school kid. Alas I was but a fool.
I hope the students continue to organize even larger groups and that those old enough to vote in November (and beyond) do so. You can and will shake up that school board!
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Nope. Mighty uncivil, if you ask me.
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āThe panel would be charged with ensuring that the course materials āpresent positive aspects of the United States and its heritageā and donāt āencourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.āā
Ah! Then weāll be skipping the American Revolution. Got it.
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And definitely the Civil War. Big social strife there.
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