Discussion: Students, Teachers To Storm School Board Meeting In AP History Fight

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Again we have the right wing trying shove their ideology and view of life down our throats. This action by these three right wingers can not be allowed to go forward.

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Am I the only one who saw that sign the girl on the left is holding and thought, “Based on her sign spelling, please for the love of the FSM, do not censor her right to learn! She needs it so badly!”

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The teachers got a break here. By itself, the proposed compensation package would not have stirred up the “moderates” whose opinions have been shaped by years of propoganda by the Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, etc., that nefarious unions are the cause of low student achievement. But the school board over-reached when it endangered families’ pocket books by taking away AP credits from their kids.

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I think that the educators and students involved would agree that teachers "getting a break’ is not the significant question here and that “family pocket books” are not all that important either. By far the biggest issue is WHAT is taught and how it is conveyed. I’m a retired Texas teacher/administrator with many years of experience teaching AP classes, and I would have found another profession very quickly if any of the school boards I worked under had tried to impose their biases in this manner. Very few elected school board members know ANYTHING about actual curriculum and classroom teaching methods, but most are smart enough to leave those things to professional educators.

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I wondered about her as well - is this girl actually taking advanced placement courses? AP spelling? A great course for the fuddy duddies to review, since discouraging originality is right up their alley.

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I in no way meant to diminish the centrality of the censorship to the teachers’ and the public’s opposition to the school board’s actions. I was merely pointing out that if the school board had not attempted to introduce both a draconian contract and the censorship at the same time, the public’s reaction would not have been as strong. And I do believe that when the College Board said that they wouldn’t recognize a bowdlerized version of the AP history course for AP credit, a certain segment of the public became engaged in a way that they otherwise would not have, in part because they’d perhaps have to pay for a “remedial” history course for their kids when they get to college.