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Little-Acorn
05-20-2014, 06:26 PM
You might recall that, in the middle East, various "Palestinian" schools teach their children that Jews are pigs or dogs, their textbooks show maps where Israel has been eliminated, etc. It's an effective technique, using bias and lies to ensure that the hatred against Israel and the desire for its destruction, will go on.

Well, that technique is taking root here in the United States. The "Common Core" line of textbooks, which the Fed govt has been pushing to be taught equally to all schoolchildren regardless of the desires of their parents, have been teaching things about the U.S. Constitution that are just flat lies.

I thought the purpose of textbooks, and of schools in general, was to teach our kids things that are true?

I've always heard the rumors of poor education, stories of questionable "facts" - such reports are nothing new. But it's startling to see one right up front.

This is just disgusting. Our schools are no longer educational institutions. Now they are being used as straight propaganda channels.

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http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/common-core-textbooks-teaching-bald-faced-lies-about-the-2nd-amendment

Common Core Textbooks Teaching Bald Faced Lies About The 2nd Amendment

By Steve Straub On May 19, 2014

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”


The Common Core teaching materials in this textbook define the Second Amendment like this:

“This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison.”

Perhaps I’m wrong but I don’t think the Constitution states that people must “register their guns” or that they are only allowed “certain types of weapons”

These liberal lies are being taught as fact in some of our nations’s public schools and if nothing changes we’ll have an entire generation of people who believe the right to bear arms comes from the government and that the right to bear arms is severely limited.

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NightTrain
05-20-2014, 06:39 PM
Wow.

That's not what the 2nd says or intends, at all.

I can see why they deleted the whole "...shall not be infringed" with the extra text in there. Hard to reconcile "shall not be infringed" when you add the rest.

Little-Acorn
05-20-2014, 06:53 PM
Anybody know the title and publisher of this book?

NightTrain
05-21-2014, 12:07 AM
Anybody know the title and publisher of this book?

I don't know the title of the book... but here's the Common Core publishers :

http://www.arizonansagainstcommoncore.com/images/blu_tri.gif Publishing Companies- Pearson, (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/04/27/30pearson.h30.html) Scholastic News, (http://www.scholastic.com/commoncore/#.USUTJ9cZXU0)MacGraw Hill, (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXQKQ7duliRk) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (http://www.hmheducation.com/commoncore/index.php)(AZ textbooks used in Public Schools are primarily from the publisher Harcourt) etc., will benefit from Common Core because they willprovide the textbooks, for training teachers and teaching students, and curriculum changes that will need to be made to implement Common Core. Pearson, the largest on-line book company in the world, announced in their 2012 Earnings Report (http://www.pearson.com/news/2013/february/pearson-2012-results.html) that "The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)...awarded Pearson and Educational Testing Service (ETS) the contract to develop test items that will be part of the new English and Mathematics assessments to be administered from the 2014-2015 school year.

http://www.arizonansagainstcommoncore.com/Who_Behind_CC.html

Little-Acorn
05-21-2014, 11:42 AM
Turns out this book is not a Common Core book. It is described as a workbook written and published by two former teachers at Grant Middle School in Springfield, IL.

http://www.examiner.com/article/school-says-it-will-edit-workbook-that-misrepresents-2a-after-defending-it

According to the article, the Personnel Dept. at the school says they will change it "if and when".

But the school Superintendent, Bob Hill, is now weaseling like crazy. He's now saying that “no place in the book does it portray that that is the Second Amendment"... even though the book actually says, "This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison."

As the article describes, Hill said that several parents have asked him to remove the book, “which I’ve told them I wouldn’t do.”

The good news is, the two teachers who wrote the lies in the book, are now "former Grant Middle School teachers".

Two teachers down, one Superintendent to go.

Office contact information for Superintendent Bob Hill, and for the Sprengfield Il Public Schools Board of Education, are listed here:
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/03/29/common-core-workbook-teaches-2nd-amendment-pertains-registered-arms/