aphanon_meme | part 355 fireflies flying around

part 355 fireflies flying around

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/student-walk-outs-possible-at-pomona-arvada-west-and-ralston-valley-high-schools-tuesday

According to the proposal from Jeffco School Board of Education member Julie Williams, the committee would make sure that U.S. history materials "promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights. Materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law. Instructional materials should present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage. Content pertaining to political and social movements in U.S. history should present balanced and factual treatments of the positions."

Uhh do these people not know US history at all, or.

I'm trying to think of a major social advancement that can't be traced to disregarding laws and civil disorder.....

"Instructional materials should present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage."

The whole thing is terrible, but side-eyeing this part particularly hard.

Guess we're still ignoring what the atomic bombs did to Japan, among other things, like Vietnam and Iraq.

"APUSH is new. This is important to state because some may not know it is NEW. It came into existence quite recently under dubious and secretive circumstances (just like the Common Core). If fully implemented, APUSH would greatly modify and standardize the teaching of US History in every high school in America," she continued. "APUSH rejects the history that has been taught in the country for generations. It has an emphasis on race, gender, class, ethnicity, grievance and American-bashing while simultaneously omitting the most basic structural and philosophical elements considered essential to the understanding of American History for generations. Let me give you some examples of who is omitted: Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin with not even a mention of Martin Luther King, Jr. who was on the forefront of the civil rights movement. It ignores lessons on the Boston Tea Party, Lexington, Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the list continues."

no clue how accurate the last part is, but she still seems full of shit despite trying to claim she's not promoting censorship

"Wehhh, you're just jumping to conclusions, we didn't alter the curriculum YET, we were just thinking about doing it, why do you have a problem?"
Because you and your brainless ass were going to change it, you slime. You're just sad you got caught before you could get anywhere.

And really, how are you even going to teach history if you're avoiding civil disorder and social strife.

As someone who took APUSH... gender, class, ethnicity, and other not-so-nice things were definitely covered in old APUSH. And they should be. They need to be. Jefferson, Adams, Dr. King, Boston Tea Party, etc., were also covered, so I don't get her gripe that they weren't. I can't even tell if Williams is talking about APUSH before or after her proposals. Yes, she's very unclear, and definitely not someone I want in charge of rewriting curricula right there. And if she's worried we didn't take the 'right lessons' from the Boston Tea Party, etc., taking that in the light of her disgusting proposal, I want none of it. Fuck you, Williams.

The fact that this comes after we hear President Obama talking about being "pulled back by an undertow of instability" just smells wrong.

Materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law. Instructional materials should present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage.

Instructional materials should present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage.

...yeahhhhh I'm a little creeped out by this. Wtf? Quite frankly history classes are already biased in favor of America because, well, we're in America, so to act like we need to make the teaching of history more "positive" toward America seems pretty damn shady. What the fuck does this "should present positive aspects" mean? Less talk about segregation and the civil rights movement? Of the heinous acts committed against the native people of this land? Of the consequences of our actions abroad?

The faults and injustices of a nation are exactly the part that students SHOULD be taught. The issues and problems and moral questioning surrounding controversial actions the US has taken are exactly what students SHOULD be discussing, debating, and thinking about. So trying to say that history needs to focus on "positive aspects" rubs me the wrong way.

At what point do we cross the line between "teaching" and "indoctrinating"?

I hope that parents speak up as well. I didn't have time to read/watch the full thing, but I'm really pleased to see that all these kids didn't just go home and do nothing, they're all standing there all day getting their message seen. And I hope that their families are supporting them and joining them,

At what point do we cross the line between "teaching" and "indoctrinating"?

Oh, we're far beyond that already. Pledge of allegiance, anyone?

But yeah, +1 to all of this. I bet my old high school history teacher is/would be mortified if he knew. He was always saying we need to know our history so we don't make the same mistakes again...

I never realized how bizarre the pledge of allegiance was as a practice until I went to college and met foreign kids.

I stopped saying it in high school. At the time I was mainly pissed about the "under god" bit, but now... it does kind of bother me.

At my schools we said the pledge of allegiance and sang the star spangled banner every morning. I still like the anthem, but the pledge creeps me out now too. I'd rather sing the anthem again than state the pledge for the nth time. At least the anthem is pretty and has cultural significance, and is sung frequently at important events to this day. The pledge... doesn't seem nearly as well liked to me now, in comparison.

Destroy this cartoon

Is there a petition against this going on yet? Is this viral on Tumblr yet?

Because here's a good instance of when Tumblr's snowball effect could be put to good use. This shit should be talked about all over Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube - all those spaces where teens congregate. These kids should bombard this school board with messages - and they should pressure their parents, family members, friends, government officials, etc etc to do the same.

This committee needs to be bitch-slapped back to reality because I don't know which decade's ass they've shoved their heads into but in 2014 people are not going to stand for a step backwards like this.

I don't think so. it was trending on Facebook but idk about Tumblr.

Found this: http://micdotcom.tumblr.com/post/98307241731/hundreds-of-colorado-students-are-fighting-back

Not a lot of notes by Tumblr standards. Imo people need to be angrier about this and make more of a fuss to nip this sort of thing in the bud. Scrapping over the relative "problematic"ness of this or that fandom thing is one thing, but changes to the education system of this type and on this scale are a far, far more dangerous event.

I don't want to make a post about it myself but I'll reblog others' posts and hopefully there'll be more uproar about this in the near future.

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