…An error-filled version of global geography. The
equator actually passes through Florida, Texas and Arizona.
…On the shelves of school libraries is a biography for
young readers of the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is said to hail from the “long
tradition of activist ministers like Martin Luther King Jr.”
…There is also a whitewash of Louis Farrakhan,
described as a “black American of achievement” who bears a “message no American
can ignore.” The Nation of Islam leader also shows a “willingness to forgive,”
the book claims.
I guess the word whitewash
hasn’t been politically corrected yet.
…At least three schools have bought copies of “The
American Vision,” a 2003 high school history textbook, published by Glencoe
McGraw-Hill, that was one of the first to write about the terror attacks. In a
seven-page lesson on the massacre of 3,000 innocents, students are
asked:
“What are the three main reasons certain Muslims became
angry with the United States?”
“Why does American foreign policy anger Islamic
fundamentalists in the Middle East?”
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The other day their was a story about a college education being equivalent to
a 1950’s high school education. And I thought a time machine was impossible, but
I guess an education time machine works. At this rate they will soon be able to
turn back a modern degree to a 1930’s 1st grade education. I am sertanly gwad I
gwaduated from a fine pubrick skool b4 day went bad.
