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Oct. 17, 2011 11:44am Meredith Jessup

Blaze reader Erick D. from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., shares with us this vocabulary list from his 9-year-old daughter’s 4th grade class and his personal story of concern:

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bosley4
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 6:32pm
Brillo, this is all very interesting. But what lesson was your daughter being taught where these vocab words were brought up? And you’re talking about taking your daughter out of this school. Is this the only reason or are there others.

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brillo
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:05pm
Hey guys thanks for all the support and tips! I am the father of this 9 yr old! Unfortunaly this is a big problem down here. Just to give you guys an update I spoke to the principal of the school (she became VERY annoyed w me) and told me that the words where chosen bc it was Columbus day! I laughed in her face and told her “I highly doubt that.” After going back and forth with her for a while I realized that I was not going to win this battle…Sadly I dont know what I should or can do next.

Luckly my daughter is smart and understood better then I was expecting why I disapproved of her vocab list. Now the problem is what now? My wife and I both work and we can not afford private school for both kids. We are thinking about looking into some of the charter programs in the area. Hopefully I can find one that does not have a Union to pollute the kids. What are your opinions on charter schools? Are they just as corrupt?

@GadsdenGurl, thanks for all the links! Truly unbelievable!

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- tharpdevenport
  Posted on October 18, 2011 at 2:53pm
  You make the whole thing very, veyr, VERY public. Like posting ehre. Contacting the Blaze (or askraj@gbtv.com). Wrtie down what was said. Make YouTube videos, do any news interviews, except CNN — where you’re gonna get attacked.
  
  Don’t lay off. Find other parents with the same problem(s) in that school, or other problems. Keep going. The last thing left-wing or lib’s want is national attention drawn to themselves and what they do. It’s like turning a light on in the kitchen and watching the cockroaches scatter.
  
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- danielsangeo
  Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:10pm
  So, is the problem that the school is NOT advancing an ideology?
  
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1389AD
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 9:03pm
Notice the slanted and sanitized definitions of these words. No mention of the damage that unions, strikes, and boycotts often cause to the companies or organizations that they target, to their own workers, to the political parties and governmental bodies that they corrupt, and to the public as a whole.

Given that these words are in the news, there is nothing wrong with explaining what those words mean, as long as the definitions do not push a left-wing, pro-union agenda. The definitions shown above are pure propaganda.

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- danielsangeo
  Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:51pm
  What is left wing or pro-union about these definitions?
  
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tharpdevenport
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:59pm
Look at #4. You don’t get to “choose” to become a citizen of a country; you can choose to TRY and be one, but you are GRANTED citizenship. I bet we find mroe crap if we look around that school.

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- danielsangeo
  Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:53pm
  You can most certainly choose to be a citizen of a certain country, even if it’s not your country of birth. I can choose to be a cable TV installer if I do what is necessary to become one, just as I can choose to be a citizen of a country if I do what is necessary to become one.
  
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TruthSpeaker
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:35pm
PARENTS !! save your children – if you cannot home school or afford private schools, you MUST challenge each and every time an lying fact is presented to your kids. Be annoyingly in their face and don’t back down. If we do not start demanding truth from education out children will become those at OWS.

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GadsdenGurl
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:35pm
@unescoNOW : Brainwashing your children, day in, day out. http://t.co/DvMVKT4y @iborganization @ib_news

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GadsdenGurl
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:14pm
http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/images/ib_stuff.jpg

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GadsdenGurl
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:10pm
Check out the school papers on this: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=55505285&ref=ts#!/media/set/?set=a.608822538146.2104725.55505285&type=3

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GadsdenGurl
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:07pm
This is the kind of stuff they promote.. http://blogs.ibo.org/ibonline/2011/10/07/help-an-ib-school-send-a-tweet-to-president-chavez-of-venezuela/

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GadsdenGurl
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:02pm
Oh dear you ain’t seen nothing yet! You wanna see social justice agendas in the public elementary schools? Florida is MOST egregious in that they employ the UN’s IB program. I can show you TONS of papers that will shock you from the ‘learner profiles’ they drum into the kids all day.

Check out http://www.ibo.org

BINGO!!!!!
http://www.browardschoolsmagnetprograms.com/elementary/themes/international-primary

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TangoBravo
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:27pm
Drop the dept of education, we don’t need it.

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Slapweasel
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:10pm
Allow me to add one more:

protest (v) – a cacophony of useful idiots whose ignorance is only surpassed by their stench.

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- Slapweasel
  Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:16pm
  Sorry… “protest” is a progressive (n), not a (v).
  
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- danielsangeo
  Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:14pm
  That’s not a nice thing to say about the Tea Party.
  
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FEMALL
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:01pm
Dad, the answer is yes.I suggest you come up with a vocab list of your own with definitions like:
work ethic
illegal immigrant
free market
upward mobility
philanthropy

O=Occupy the White House

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- Anamah
  Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:34pm
  Would you add Treason and Impeachment?
  
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- TangoBravo
  Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:26pm
  good one!
  
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pandora
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:50pm
The government curriculum is right there to indoctrin…er, educate your children. Be “right thinking” now children – today’s vocabulary word is conspiracy – a false assumption that people have banded together to do bad things. In my day, we saw films about Hitler to show what evil is possible in the world. I bet classrooms in the “New America” will show films of Glenn Beck to try and brainwa…er, teach kids the same thing.

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youngred
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:29pm
Exactly why schools should be privatized. I wish more private (and more affordable) owned schools were opened. 1% you have the power to educate america. DO IT.

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- danielsangeo
  Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:20pm
  Well, that would be up to the free market, wouldn’t it? If more want private schools, more would open, right? Or are you going to force someone to make a choice?
  
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