Texas Mom Outraged After Finding Stunning Question About 9/11, Terrorism on Her Son’s 5th Grade Test
A Texas mom is furious after discovering that her son’s school is teaching students that the United States is partly to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
Kara Sands, of Corpus Christi, Texas, took to her Facebook and posted photos of the test administered by Flour Bluff Intermediate School. The test reportedly covered content in a video fifth-grade students watched in class.
Of all the questions about the 9/11 attacks, Sands was most disturbed by question three:
“Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” The answer? “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”
The school was using the stunningly controversial lesson, a part of Safari Montage, to supplement the controversial CSCOPE curriculum system that has come under fire recently, Sands told TheBlaze. CSCOPE also includes lessons asking students to design a flag for a “new socialist nation” and calls the Boston Tea Party an “act of terrorism.”
“I’m not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did anything to deserve that — over 3,000 people died,” Sands told KRIS-TV.
The irate mother immediately contacted her son’s principal and teacher and set up meetings with them. The school then reached out to the video’s distributor, Safari Montage.
“Representatives say they stand behind the video, but have already changed the corresponding quiz that may have caused confusion,” according to the report.
Sands told TheBlaze that the principal of Flour Bluff Intermediate School said that Safari Montage was being used to supplement the CSCOPE system. Mason Moses, the public information officer for the Texas System of Education Service Centers, told TheBlaze that CSCOPE is not affiliated with Safari Montage.
Another worksheet on the Bill of Rights apparently names food and medicine as “rights,” not a personal responsibility, according to Sands. She said her son’s answer was falsely marked wrong because he labeled food and medicine as the latter.
As a Texas parent, Sands said she is very concerned about what CSCOPE is teaching children. But the Flour Bluff Independent School District released a statement defending the use of CSCOPE.
Several parents are reportedly planning to bring the issue up during the next school board meeting on March 28 and Sands is encouraging more parents to get involved.
“When I teach my children that you have to work hard and you have to earn a living and they go to school and learn something different I absolutely take issue with that,” she added.
Read TheBlaze’s most recent report on CSCOPE, here.
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UPDATE: Mason Moses, the public information officer for the Texas System of Education Service Centers, told TheBlaze in an email on Friday that any assertion that the test is tied to CSCOPE is “entirely false.”
“This test has never been apart of CSCOPE and we have never had any type of relationship with Safari Montage. Safari Montage is not a vendor who has ever been associated with CSCOPE, therefore it is not possible for their material to be aligned with CSCOPE…The truth is we did not develop it and have never seen it,” he wrote.
However, regardless of whether or not the test was affiliated with CSCOPE in some way does not change the fact that the test was given to 5th-grade students in Corpus Christie, Texas. The school district discontinued use of the test after the controversy erupted.
TheBlaze is investigating further and will follow up on this story.
(H/T: Fox Nation)
This story has been updated.
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pwatkins
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:48pmhttp://danetteclark.wordpress.com/name-names-2/
You may find this interesting.
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NewCreationDave
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:37amYep, this one you DEFINITELY will find interesting!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7950634/It%27s%20a%20free%20country.pdf
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jginmt
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:48pmThank you for the good link to understand who is behind CSCOPE. Here is the email address for the principal of Flour Bluff High School. jcrenshaw@flourbluffschools.net
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MALCOLMX
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:21pmwelcome “COMMON CORE CURRICULUM” ALSO C-SCOPE; every school is now a communist / muslim indoctrination camp. GET THE FED OUT OF THE SCHOOLS OR HOME SCHOOL.
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ArmedPatriot
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:36pmWhen curriculums and lesson plans are no longer localized but dictated by the central federal government you are no longer living in a free society. You are in a totalitarian state. Liberty is finished. It’s even illegal to reveal what is being taught. These kids are being taught to embrace Marxism and reject the United States, freedom and the free market. Apparently they are succeeding. Teachers who don’t go along with this are evidently being retired or fired or prosecuted. (Just as the new Pentagon litmus test for appointment under Obama is that you be willing to fire on American citizens.)We are very very close to the time when your kids will turn you in for incorrect thought.
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ArmedPatriot
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:39pmMALCOLMX, there is a determined movement to make it illegal to homeschool. A family is about to be deported for it. Believe me, people will soon be jailed for doing it. Children MUST be under the control of the central State and taught only and exclusively what they demand. Within ten years, probably less, homeschooling will be outlawed in all states.
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American Cherokee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:13pmThe communist socialist progressive international dictatorship utopia bad junk is all around the US.
Dallas and Denton are on the Agenda 21 list. Collin and Ft Worth/Tarrant are not.
The Collin Co Sheriff is one of the ones that spoke up weeks ago and said he would allow no one to violate The Constitution or Americans’ Rights.
Although there is an agency office up the street from him. So God Bless him!
National politicians for 40 years have tried to convince American People “how much they care” by repeatedly saying they “want to improve education”.
When they said that 40 years ago, the only thing that needed improving was some good teachers making only $14,000 should have made more.
30 years ago when politicians said that; Americans Students were ranked among the highest the world. And teachers were then making $28,000 to $50,000. But politicians still insisted they “wanted to improve education”. Most Americans knew that was campaign BS and blew that off. Most said they did not need or want government intereference. But politicians ignored that.
20 years ago when American Students after years of federal interference were slipping the rankings; But doing Okay; Politicians again said they “want to improve education”.
Some politicians of course on the dem prog side; And 1 or 2 on the rep prog side again say they “want to improve education”.
Funny how All Their Years Of Doing That Has Ruined Education. Just like Many Americans Said 30 Y
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American Cherokee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:22pmNational politicians for 40 years have tried to convince American People “how much they care” by repeatedly saying they “want to improve education”.
When they said that 40 years ago, the only thing that needed improving was some good teachers making only $14,000 should have made more.
30 years ago when politicians said that; Americans Students were ranked among the highest the world. And teachers were then making $28,000 to $50,000.
But politicians still insisted they “wanted to improve education”.
Most Americans knew that was campaign BS and blew that off. Most said they did not need or want government intereference. But politicians ignored that.
And 20 years ago when American Students after years of federal interference were slipping the rankings; But doing Okay; Politicians again said they “want to improve education”.
Some politicians of course on the dem prog side; And 1 or 2 on the rep prog side again say they “want to improve education”.
Funny how All Their Years Of Doing That Has Ruined Education. Just like Many Americans Said 30 Years Ago.
Abolishing the Ed Dept would save billions. Education that is greatest is run by LOCAL PARENTS AND TEACHERS!
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recondenny
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:31pmThe scariest part of this is it happened in TEXAS!!!! The last great hope. (I live in FL)
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Mulder1
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:37pmThey hate us because we are a Christian nation that is the most powerful force opposing Islamic Jihad.
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smv803
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:02pmIt is imperative for every parent to monitor, If they aren’t already, Their child’s curriculum and get involved in the school. They need to hold school boards feet to the fire.
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RobbieTLHughie
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:25pmA determined movement to make homeschooling illegal? Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha…. Ah, oh my gosh…. AHAHAHAHAHHAHA what? Where do you guys come up with this imagined crap?
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FreeTexanDude
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:13pmNewsweek article about criminalizing home schooling:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1720697,00.html
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Keatonc333
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:04am… This is true though… We made a decision to facilitate and fully support the instatement of Israel. This had a negative effect on Palestine. This decision is why Bin Laden himself named as the reason they targeted America… To teach otherwise would be indoctrination.
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Jim S
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:12am+“Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” The answer? “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”
….NO NO NO that is one of 4 answers on a multiple choice test. If the question was 2 + 2= a)3 b)4 c)6 d) none of the above…is the answer 3 and therefore you kid is being taught incorrectly? Can you people read ? Critical reading skills are lacking at the Blaze and a students mother.
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annie-oakley
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:45pmDoes anyone know if this is also being taught in the Dallas/Ft Worth area school districts?
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Exiled
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:04amYou should know what’s being taught in your own district…
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:10amShe has a nice figure that’s for sure. Thanks for the video. Over and over.
But no, she’s right. The United States has never done anything to make other countries hate us. As you know, everything the US has ever done should make people love us. It’s just weird and irrational that other countries don’t love us like they did after WWII.
To suggest that we have engendered hatred by our actions on the world stage is simply false. Ludicrous. Sure, we overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran to install the Shah as King and brutal dictator. But is that a reason for Muslims to hate us? Sure, we supported Saddam Hussein with money and military equipment against Iran after the Shah was overthrown, but is that a reason for Muslims in Iran to hate us? Sure, we kept a brutal dictator in Egypt in power with money and weapons, but is that a reason for Egyptian Muslims to hate us?
They very idea that there are reasons that anyone in the world has any reason to hate and want to attack the United States of America is unpatriotic. It’s not like we attack other countries or overthrow their governments or anything. We are the shining light of Democracy and equal rights, just like after WWII. Still.
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Miami
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:24amSendTheMeteors
I bet you thinke Castro was elected…
How do you stand on Mao Tse Tung? Stalin? Lenin? Ho Chi Minh?
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geeman
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:15ammeatyoriface, Muslims are taught to hate america from day one.Why, because we support lsrael,and we are not muslim.WHO TAUGHT YOU.You are always against america,and agree with anything said by people that hate this country.YOU MAKE ME SICK! PLEASE GO BACK TO IRAN!
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annie-oakley
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:23amI have no children, so why/how should I know? I have asked the one teacher that I know, and he said he knew nothing about it. But then I keep seeing these stories, so I am still interested to know since I do pay very high property taxes to fund the schools, even though I have no children in those schools, and never have. So thanks for the snark, but maybe you should be nicer to people that are asking a simple question. Bless your heart.
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donkat5
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:07amThis is the information you are looking for. As landowners who pay for our schools, we should all be concerned about what is being taught even if we don’t have kids or grandkids in school. http://www.txcscopereview.com/2012/cscope-rotten-apple-award/
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:11amOh by all means MEATEEYORES…let’s forget about the US intervention to save muslims in Kosovo and Somalia and the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to muslim interests around the world.
Let’s also forget that Bin Laden was a Saudi not an Iranian..in fact, none of the 9/11 hijackers were Iranian.
Moreso…Iran provides funding and arms to Hezbollah and Hamas..two terrorist organizations.
And of course what you’re saying is that we got exactly what we deserved on 9/11 right?
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David-FL
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:13am@Send the IDIOTS,
There are many many [other] reasons Terrorists target this Country besides the three mentioned. If it isn’t obvious to you that the positioning of the answers to the question can lead a child to accept a belief, then you are dumber that dog ****.
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:15amANNIE..the time for believing that teachers are pinnacles of respectability and responsibility in the community is well over. Today’s teachers are products of the leftist machine in our schools and colleges themselves. They are socialists to the core. Rather than asking if it’s in your district, confront the principal at your school and ask to see the curriculum and keep on asking each year. IN fact, get other parents to join you. Make sure you’re reviewing your child’s homework. The only thing that will stop these lefty vipers and their brainwashing of your kids is to stay vigilant.
Also…you have an amazingly successful and astute governor in Texas in Rick Perry..write him and make him aware of this stuff.
The left got us to this point with it’s activism..it’s time to turn that table on them.
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David-FL
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:16am@Send the IDIOTS,
There are many many [other] reasons Terrorists target this Country besides the three mentioned. If it isn’t obvious to you that the positioning of the answers to the question can lead a child to accept a belief, then you are dumber than dog dung.
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encinom
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:24amSounds like hte question was written by Rand Paul’s father Ron Paul.
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WakingSheep
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:29amI can’t say I agree with how the questions were lined up but the answer is correct.
In the past century (since the oil boom) the middle east has been meddled with. This isn’t just the fault of the US. There have been many outside nations meddling in the middle east. The CIA actually called this “blowback”. Are the wars in the middle east justified?
Do any of you know anything about the petro dollar?
I find it amazing that we can get fired up about our natural rights here in the US but deny them everywhere else. Why would we give foreign aid to these nations (dictators) for all these years if they hate us? We built most of their military equipment for them! I have seen pics of Irans flag on the side of F-16′s! Saudi Arabia denies some of the most basic human rights and we have military stationed there to defend them! That isn’t liberty! Let them decide on there own what they want to do, bring our troops home and actually defend our own borders. We are beyond screw*d and people still can’t even read their countries history for the past century.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness…
Our founders never intended to force these rights on any nation but show them through example.
We created the modern world with this nation. Liberty did not Government.
Also, we are broke. That should be
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txannie
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:32am@Annie-Oakley…they started this csope crud in the smaller school systems about 10/15 years ago as pilot programs to see if parents would notice. They have now snuck their way into the major metro areas via democrats, so more than likely it is in the Dallas area. ‘They’ are the democrat party here in Texas, courtesy of leticia van de putte and ilk, they absolutely hate all conservatives, not unlike meteor and such. They started in very small systems that had high ratios of spanish-as-a-first-language students. We checked into our system in a small town of about 10,000. Yep, there it was. We home schooled, but we have paid some of the highest school taxes in the country anyway. The home school orgs here in Texas have been warning for years and their voice is just now being heard. Everyone blames Perry for everything bad in Texas, but it is the democrats that refuse to parlay, even to the point of running to another state and hiding during sessions so there cannot be a quarum for voting. Oh, boy, you got me started on a subject I could just spit on. There is a reason they started in South Texas. They actually want to have whole schools for spanish only, saying it is ‘unfair’ to expect children to learn a whole new language! Why are they here then?! Meteor and the others will immediately attack just to try and shut you up. Ignore them. Do your homework, fight back and help keep Texas free.
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Rebalee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:36amI would say yes. Dallas is one of the cities in Texas that is heavily infiltrated by agenda 21 politians. Read Behind the Green Mask. Texas has some very disturbingly liberal hubs just like every other state. You were lied to about CSCOPE. I don’t think everyone involved lied on purpose but they were deceived to get it passed as well. It is all part of the programming of our youth to except a one world government and communist society.
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Captain77
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:45amPeople tend to think that the United States Government and the United States people are on in the same. This however is sadly not true. What the government does and what the people think the government does are two seperate things. The United States Government tends to meddle in other nations affairs. Just look at the middle east. We meddled in Lybia taking part in ousting their “dictator”. Now the flag of terrorists flies over its capital. We are currenty meddling in Syria, and come to found out the rebel fighters we are supporting are the same ones we are fighting in other nations. Let us not also forget the history of Iran where the CIA, and American Agency kicked out their elected leader in place of their own puppet, which ended up being the cause of so much angst between our two nations today. You need to wake up people. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA ARE NOT THE SAME THING. Our government is perhaps the greatest cause for our troubles today.
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denaeliza
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:58amGo to Texas CScope Review and you’ll find which school districts have applied this trash into the schools. However, some schools might use it for additional information but it won’t show up on the website. If you have notice that your child is not bring home textbooks anymore or when asked about textbooks, they tell you that they can’t bring textbooks home, then your child is probably in a CSCOPE school. If you’re concerned about this, I would do anything and everything to get this crap out. From going to school district meetings to opting out of standardize testing, or just pulling your child out and homeschool. My friend’s daughter brought home an assignment regarding Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. A page and half was discussed for Islam, 5 paragraphs for Judaism, and Christianity was not even mentioned (unless you count the Catholic Crusades – which was actually the Muslims takeover of Jerusalem). This is what is being taught and we live a rural area outside of the DFW metroplex. It’s an ugly pimple that needs to be popped. Plus it’s so secretive that teachers have to sign a confidential agreement or they could go to jail.
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WakingSheep
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:21pmI’m reading the questions and answers again… They really are terrible in how they are worded….
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Protege
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:28pmGuys and girls:
SENDTHEMTEORS is just doing his job. As a public schooled liberal Democrat with progressive socialist tendencies and obviously a lack of being well connected, this job as a Soros troll from 9 am – 4:20 pm is likely the only thing he could get in this Obama economy. We should all be happy for him and support him for at least half-a$$ed attempting to be a somewhat productive member of our failing society. Play nice with the professional trolls. I’ll give you an example of why:
If you come across a tine lizard having a bad day, and you ask him what’s wrong, he might respond “I’m being picked on, but it’s okay: I’m a Tyrannosaurs Rex on my mother’s side”, you should treat him with the respect such claim merits. It may not be true, but it may also be the only thing between him continuing the good fight and simply giving up to a shattered spirit.
Same with trolls like our here. They don’t have much to keep them going: as good people we should offer them support so they don’t just give up and end it all. I’ll give another example:
“Great post SENDTHEMETORS! Well thought out by Soros Inc! You did a FANTASTIC job of mucking up the copy-paste just enough to make it seem like it was an original thought by you! Keep up the fine trolling!”
See? He’s happy, we’re happy, everyone gets to say something positive, and life goes on.
:)
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bennettpatches
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:27pmThe truth, even though some deny it, hurts. You’ve had other countries themselves state why they hate, HATE, the United States. They don’t want our meddling nor our occupations, after we invade them.
We had Japan beat BEFORE we dropped the A-bombs. So why drop them? To prove a point? To intimidate our countries? To show the world we have the power?
Vietnam? We used a false flag operation to enter that war. Iraq? We lied to get involved with that war.
Now we are turning on ourselves. Chipping away at our Constitution, rights and freedoms every chance they get. The government run media won’t tell you the truth, but it’s out there. You have to be willing to look for it, AND ACCEPT IT when you do find it.
Some people never will accept the truth, and that’s tragic.
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RockyMountainPATRIOT
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:33pmAnnie,
I’m in your local area (between FW & D, in a multi-city ISD) And, like you, I don’t have children to review their homework and find out what’s going on. It’s next to impossible to dig up info on C-SCOPE because the state legislature just demanded it be made public in FEB and, the C-SCOPE people don’t want us to know anything about it. That being said, I have *read* that my SBOE rep is in favor of it. I can’t say for sure but, I’m pretty sure it is in our schools. I CAN tell you the IB WORLD SCHOOL program IS. It’s another source promoting GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. The “International Baccalaureate” program is responsible for bringing a representative from AL JAZEERA into a local classroom under the guise of an advanced foreign language class. By teaching Mandarin Chinese, Hindi & Arabic, what future are we preparing our kids for? IB was originally created for children of diplomats, so it has “snob appeal.” (That explains why participating students will tell you IB means, “I’M BETTER.”) Our best & brightest, hardest working students–those who are driven to learn–are learning how to be good little global citizens. Demonize America & glorify communism.
On the UP side, the district is figuring out it costs around $40,000 per student, so hopefully it’s days are numbered.
Write your Texas State representatives & tunnel deep into your ISD websites. ‘Screen grab’ suspect pages.
And, VOTE! Local elections are coming SOON! Research the candidates
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Walkabout
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:48pm@ Send the Meteors
Mohammad Mosaddegh was not the legitimate Prime Minister of Iran. He was not elected.
“Mosaddegh stopped the voting as soon as 79 deputies – just enough to form a parliamentary quorum — had been elected”
Maybe we should form a quorum in Congress with just states from the South & Midwest. See Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 All we need is Senators from 26 states. We can just have representatives from red districts. We would have a quorum. We could conduct the nation’s business. This is in essence what Mossadegh did.
It is your silver bullet & I should say the silver content of said bullet is very low.
Maybe you should study the Black Tom Explosion or the Bhuddist Temple Explosion, or the Barbary Wars.
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Walkabout
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:50pm“Realizing that the opposition would take the vast majority of the provincial seats, Mosaddegh stopped the voting as soon as 79 deputies – just enough to form a parliamentary quorum — had been elected”
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:52pmI knew the Anti-American Troll could not stay away from this thread. Meteors are flying out of butts everywhere.
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hispanicvoter
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:22pmYes they are using this in Dallas I know for sure.
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Walkabout
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:34pm@ WakingSheep
A big concern in the 1970s & 1980s were metals like manganese. You can’t fly something as ancient as a F15 without metals that we got from Africa at the time. Now perhaps we could mine the sea floor, if liberals don’t go ape$#it and head stomp us all.
You have to deal with many nations regardless of their form of government to be able to survive. How are you going to have fortress America if you absolutely refuse to do business with any & all dictators etc when China & Russia do? That might work 3 generations tops before you are so totally owned as a nation. Iron & Carbon alone do not a jet fight or jet engine make. you got to dope the steel or it will never stand up to the high temperatures. The NAZIs worked around that to a degree, but it was a stop gap. Then again they were so strapped for metal they made jets out of wood.
Do you want us to make fighter jets out of wood?
Look up the “Heinkel He 162″
How will you build those F15s. Sure today we use composites. But to get to composites you have to last long enough to continue to research those techs. The Cold War was not cold. It was quite hot. The Russians might have had a 1st world Military with a 3rd world economy, but as Lenin said “Quantity has a quality all its’ own”.
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btdtdan
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:54pmI asked one of the teachers on the school web site(BISD) …and they never replied.
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btdtdan
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:24pmI just checked the list of schools and districts that use the program and strangely enough none of the mid-cities schools BISD,AISD,HEBISD are on the list,but good gosh almighty it is EVERY where else in the state.
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GI_Joe
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:48pmWe had Japan beat BEFORE we dropped the A-bombs. So why drop them? To prove a point? To intimidate our countries? To show the world we have the power?
Vietnam? We used a false flag operation to enter that war. Iraq? We lied to get involved with that war.
@ bennettpatches… What lib-tard history book have you ingested? Japan… if we had not dropped the “bomb” the plan was already in motion to eventually attack the main island (operation Olympic). Japan had already communicated that they would arm every man/woman/child in defense of the homeland. The estimated cost in American lives to take Japan and bring an end to the war in the Pacific theater was around 1 million, so the decision was made to use the bomb instead. Truman had only been in office less than 90 days at the time and basically knew nothing of the bomb until he had a “need to know.” Given his options, he authorized its use.
Second, Viet Nam… several things got us into that war. Among them, the French were already decisively involved (1945) because it was a French colony at the time and they wanted to break free from colonization. When Japan surrendered they were forced out of Viet Nam, which left a power vacuum. Ho Chi Minh steps in and calls for a provisional govt and asks the US to help. We said no because we were just coming out of WWII (as an ally to the French) so we started by throwing money to the French to help them, which led to “military advisors” under the Kennedy administra
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GI_Joe
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:50pm@ bennettpatches… (cont)
Why?
because Minh wanted a unified country under communist rule. The US saw that as a domino effect threat so allowed it to escalate by way of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The short story is we wanted to stop the spread of communism in French indo-china (Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia). We failed, mostly because politicians in the US tied the hands of ground commanders in country.
Let’s talk Iraq… false reasons? WMD shouldn’t have been the SOLE reason for going in. We had intel that said the WMD were there. We gave 6-9 months notice that we were coming and what we were after (WMD). We found out later, those stock piles were moved to (of all places) Syria. Now, all of the sudden Syria is said to have used chemical weapons on the rebels. More to follow on that. We could have been totally justified in going back to Iraq based on the failure of Iraq to comply with the cease-fire agreements post Desert Storm. As a result, we were forced to tell the UN why we were going in. Only now, is the media finally telling the story on those WMD and where they were moved.
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WakingSheep
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:33pm@Walkabout
I never mentioned anything about “not doing business” with anybody?
Free markets are actually the only thing that has proven to promote peace.
Example: We trade with Vietnam even after the outcome of the war. We never have even tried to give trade a chance in Iran though… Now we are at a boiling point though and there is no going back…
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Walkabout
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:26pm@ GI_Joe
We had Japan beat before we dropped that Bomb?
“Casualty predictions varied widely but were extremely high for both sides: depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for Allied casualties and several times that number for total Japanese casualties.”
“he combined Allied naval armada would have been the largest ever assembled, including 42 aircraft carriers, 24 battleships, and 400 destroyers and destroyer escorts. Fourteen US divisions were scheduled to take part in the initial landings”
wiki this “Operation Downfall”
Maybe it should have been name Operation CAKE WALK
140,000 versus a few to several million. Which is worse? Hmmmm. This is a toughie! I might need 999 guesses.
Go to SOFREP dot com & post as GI_Joe there & make you uhmmm comments. It should be uhhh entertaining.
“Iraq a Decade Later: Terrorism Stronger Than Ever”
“THE POPULAR CONSENSUS is that the Iraq War began in March of 2003, although it could very well be argued that it began in January of 1991, when the First Gulf War kicked off. There were very strict terms to the cease fire in 1991 — terms that Saddam Hussein repeatedly violated (e.g. firing SAMs at American aircraft in the no-fly zone; supporting and encouraging terrorist attacks on US soil, including the attempted assassination of President George H. W. Bush;”
sofrep dot .com /18378 / iraq-a-decade-later-terrorism-stronger-than-ever
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Walkabout
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:30pm@ GI_Joe
My apologies. My post should be directed at bennettpatches.
I would like to point out to Bennett_Patches that when you have to bring 466 warships to the party, your enemy is not beat. The Japanese were developing helicopters, had jet planes, had radar (late to the party & were developing an atom bomb at Hungnam Korea.
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Walkabout
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:40pm@ WakingSheep
I don’t believe in 1/2 a$$ing it. I believe the concepts of Judo may work on foreign relations.
If you have an embargo make it air tight, which we are not. They sell pizza & chewing gum to Iran, because well businesses want to make money & they lobbied like the biatches they are.
If you are not going to embargo, then do a 180 & flood them with goods & humanitarian contacts (no dual use stuff) & swamp their ability to control their people thru propaganda.
You can’t switch back & forth every year. Either route make take a few to several years. But once you switch, hit it hard. Shock the system.
I don’t think we are at a boiling point. Obama is a schlep. He already kicked the can down the road past June 24th.
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Sparky101
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:51pmSendinthemorons and buttpatches, no need to apologize for your luck to be living in the greatest county on earth. One thing, will both of you please get an education? It is almost humorous to hear you go on about all you’ve learned in 5 minutes of Internet searching, or a world history class that you failed (or took since the liberals tried to rewrite our history). Fact is, you both could learn alot by actually studying the rise and ultimate fall of the Ottoman Empire. Concentrate on their goals and their methods to gaining those goals. You will then notice that their goals and methods have not changed. They truly bear the responsibility for so very much of the world’s suffering. It’s time you began to learn the “real” truth and the facts that expose it. In the meantime, shut up with your denigration of my country.
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Oldsarge44
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:26pm@Bennetpatches You need to bone up on your history. The Japanese people had been told to fight the invaders, ie, the US, in every way possible and use whatever type of weapon available. It was estimated that we would suffer 1 million casulaties if we invaded the home islands. We got involved in Vietnam by honoring a treaty we had signed at the end of World War II. It was called the Southeast Asia Treaty Orginazation. Signees were the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and South Vietnam.
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MeteoricLimbo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:45pmSome people need to pay Arlington Cemetery a visit, or any others with white crosses for that matter.
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DAYWATCHER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:45pmIf you have children or grand children in a public school system it is time to talk to your kids teachers, make an appointment with the principles and speak out at the school board meetings. It is past time to get up and get started.
NO MORE EXCUSES! GET IT DONE!
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CatB
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:32amAnd if you can .. PULL THEM OU … home school or church schools … many church schools offer scholarships based on need .. check them out .. get your kids OUT of these state run INDOCTRINATION centers!
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kaydeebeau
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:05amThere should be little question for parents to find a way to get their kids out of the indoctrination centers. Sadly most “can’t” give up life’s little comforts for the sake of the children. Flat screens, the latest fashion, new cars, video games, dinner out, 500 cable tv channels, vacations etc are “necessities” that must be had.
Odd, that most will find a way to do anything if it is important enough to them – when will proper education become that important that parents will endure many discomforts to provide it?
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honestynow
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:00amThis kind of thing has been going on for years, over 10 at least, via IB (International Baccalaureate- the one with a UN background) curriculum as well.
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Winedude
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:45pmCATB: You’re suggesting that the kids be pulled out of the public schools and either home schooled or sent to church schools. In my mind the home-schooling may be a good idea. I don’t see how sending a child to a religious school is any different than the brainwashing that they get in public schools…It’s just a different kind….
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antitheism
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:45pmLike the states doesn’t have a history of removing foreign democratically elected leaders.
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rose-ellen
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:44pmThey brought us to the knowledge that there could be consequences to US for our policies toward THEM-in other words our chickens came home to roost. Propping up brutal dictators for our benefit[cold war, military bases and or below market oil prices] and one sided support of European Zionist expansion] ,all of which harmed the indigenous people in their homelands but served our interests. Well they got uppity .prior to that European colonialism divided up the mid east for their benefits[giving rise to the Muslim Brotherhood] a civil rights movement for indigenous Muslims under the thumb of colonial or post colonial puppet regimes. Yes we brought this on ourselves. We pitted the different faiths against each other. prior to western colonialism the three faiths lived in peace together[Christians, Jews, and Muslims..
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Sparky101
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:00pmRose-Ellen, we are amazed at how well you’ve learned your liberal indoctrination. However, you really need to truly learn some truths. Please go learn all about the Ottoman Empire. Your statement of how 3 faiths had lived in peace until the USA came along, is about as asinine a statement ever made by the uneducated (but typical). Your handlers are probably proud of their success in brainwashing you. But, you are breathing, so there is a chance you will get an education in the facts. So many of today’s students have not learned critical thinking or discernment. You too.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:45pmThat just means that the CIA would get this question incorrect then…….because they were the ones who first identified this phenomenon (they even gave it a name):
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“Originally, blowback was CIA internal coinage denoting the unintended, harmful consequences—to friendly populations and military forces—when a given weapon is carelessly used. Examples include anti-Western religious fanatics (e.g. Osama bin Laden) who, in due course, attack foe and sponsor; right-wing counter-revolutionaries who sell drugs to their sponsor’s civil populace (see CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US); and banana republic juntas (see Salvadoran Civil War) who kill American reporters or nuns (e.g. Dorothy Kazel).
In formal, print usage, the term blowback first appeared in the Clandestine Service History—Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran—November 1952–August 1953, the CIA internal history of the US’s 1953 Iranian coup d’état, published in March 1954.”
“Blowback”
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vendingdude
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:38amWell, now it’s called just “bumps in the road” cuz, after all, we wouldn’t be able to hear the rest of the comment if O referred to this phenomenon as “blowback”
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ashestoashes
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:56amHere are some more links..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1_L30JXpaY
http://wesmantoddshaw.hubpages.com/hub/Plastic-Jesus-Rothschild-International-Banking-and-the-Next-Invasion-Lotto
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capitalismrocks
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:42pmCSCOPE needs to be BANNED nationally!!! This is liberal educational sabotage of our childrens learning and must be BANNED !!!
Is it me or are these subversive attempts happening more and more in Texas??? Anyone else noticing this pattern, that the liberals are trying to contaminate and corrupt Texan children to raise a new generation of clueless liberals and turn Texas blue??? I just keep seeing more and more of these articles and issues occurring in Texas and its really raising red flags. I know Austin is already becoming a problem as its becoming the Lone Star states version of San Francisco, a hive of liberal growth and more Conservatives need to get more actively involved in Austin and shutdown all of the liberal efforts in Austin and squash that cancer ASAP!!!
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LouisianaPatriot
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:16amThank you for stating that important issue. CSCOPE should be obliterated and Common Core as well. Louisiana is now mired in this United Nations / Bill Ayers / Gates Foundation Marxism.
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Melika
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:25amUnfortunately, Beck being the drone that he is keeps holding Texas up as some kind of shining light for Constitutionalism. Because of its size, Texas has been instrumental in deciding which textbooks have been printed & available for the rest of the country, and they have repeatedly been shown to have a slanted view of history. 10+ years ago when people complained about the content in textbooks, shoulders were shrugged and fingers were pointed at Texas for approving and using them. Beck is surprised by Cscope? It’s been around for a long time and it influences others in the US.
Texans are like another favorite state of mine – they are braggadocios but fall far short of the mark in reality. Maybe if they quite telling us how great they are, they’ll have enough time to actually practice.
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Atrum_Angelus
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:23pmIt is a poor answer to the question. The real answer is a great deal more complex than that, though it does include decisions made by the US that have an impact abroad. However, the root cause is still militant islamist who are hell bent on the US’s, and the West’s for that matter, destruction.
I also don’t have a problem with the design a flag for a new socialist nation project, IF done correctly. Having a class design a socialist flag would be appropriate after the class had learned what symbols and iconography are symbolic to the socialist ideal and how to identify them. Having a class design a flag for a new socialist nation would see if they have become familiar with them and can recognize their significance outside the classroom.
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G.E.R
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:41pmIt’s a valid question and the answer is correct. Only a person ignorant of this countries history would be upset.
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MAX0O1
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:44pmYOU ARE Beyond a AS***LE!
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MDECKER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:57pmWhat really upsets me are spelling errors.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:11amG.E.R
It’s country’s not countries. Only a person ignorant of this country’s language and grammar would make a mistake like this.
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Miami
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:15amSo why was the Marine Corps formed genius?
Islam has been at war with the world since its founding. Learn some history…!
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chingachgook
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:21amIt is clear where your are coming from the US is evil. No nation is perfect, but the United States of America has given more freedom and prosperity to the world than any other Nation, Country, Social or Political System, that has ever existed. You can puppet your progressive talking point but eventually the truth will prevail. I just hope the Nation wakes up before you have completely destroyed a Great and Good Nation.
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My Two Cents
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:32amRadical Islamists and liberals have at least one thing in common. They both teach children to hate America.
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G.E.R
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:52amSo 2 of you are more concerned about a typo and not the point of the comment. If I get you a flat screen will you get sterilized.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:29amThere were two points there, G.E.R. One pertained to you saying CSCOPE’s question and answer was correct. The other point was your smugness of not being ignorant of this country’s history, while you are so very ignorant of it’s language.
Was your statement of “If I get you a flat screen will you get sterilized.” a question? In THIS country, we put question marks (?) behind sentences to let the reader know we are asking a question.
May I suggest you attend an English 101 class, available at any University, State school, or online University? Your Cyber-Warrior bosses would be SO proud.
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G.E.R
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:16amApparently your spell checking is selective or else you’d be posting comments on every thread. It’s also difficult to take you seriously when you have a Paul Hogan avatar. He like your thinking is out dated and obsolete. You will not be missed.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:08am“Radical Islamists and liberals have at least one thing in common. They both teach children to hate America.”
Let us not leave the Liberal-tarians out of the education equation where America blaming, hating and apologizing is concerned. They were preaching the same thing from their rooftops (and here on The Blaze) while Ron Paul was preaching it from the town square and stump. Let us not forget who holds hands with Islam and progressives when it strikes their isolationist fancy.
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annie-oakley
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:04amOk, so let’s say it is a valid question. It is not, however a valid question to ask kids in grade school. This might be a valid discussion to be had in a university, but NOT in grade school. Same goes for the “white privilege” bunk as well. Again, not for grade schoolers.
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AUsername
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:54amgood test and more schools need to tell why USA is hated by people abroad for its foreign policy of mass murder and invasions.
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:06pmSo GER…why do you lefties find it so difficult to say we got exactly what we deserved on 9/11?
You duplicitous vipers always seem to stop short of saying it. You gleefully say we’ve asked for it, we interfered, we intervened, we interrupted, we did this, we did that to muslims around the world. You vociferously say the muslims are merely lashing out for what we’ve supposedly done to them. You rationalise it, you justifiy it, you embrace it. But you always stop short of saying we deserved it. You make it clear that we had it coming to us (according to your and this test’s propaganda). You make it clear that it was inevitable because we’ve supposedly done so much to offend, insult, belittle and attack the muslim world. Yet…you never say we deserved it.
In any other instance it would be a given..we had it coming to us, we asked for it and we deserved it..except this one for some reason? Why?
I’ll tell you why…because to admit it openly as a group, you begin to destroy all those years of unhampered propagandizing in our schools that the left has enjoyed. All of sudden you begin to look the spiteful, hateful creatures lefties really are..and let’s face it..benevolence is the mask the left likes to wear the most.
N’est pas?
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:11pmANONYMOUS…you hit a nerve with GER and as a result he had to alinsky you.
His perception of himself got bruised. As a liberal elitist he likes to believe he’s certainly more intelligent and educated than the “neo-con” rubes he has to sully his hands with each and every day here and the other websites he infests for keepers’ agenda.
N’est pas GER?
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MAX0O1
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:40pmBASt**ds!
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Colklink1957
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:39pmI recently spoke to a teacher in a local school system. I asked her about cscope, she told me the local school board rejected it, and said that common core was being considered. I told her that common core was just as bad, gave her some links and info. We have to fight this, she is doing her part, its up to the rest of us to do theirs.
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missdagnytaggart
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:05amI’ve heard a lot about common core lately. Will you share those links with me?
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spfoam1
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:25pmThe people behind this BS should be worrying about their lives. They know CSCOPE is so loaded with crap that there is no way to clean it up lesson by lesson. Get rid of CSCOPE completely NOW.
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NovoCombo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:20pmThe school is confronted with the fact that their curriculum has clear, blatant errors and their answer is, “Mrs. Sands is the only one who has complained.” Huh? Fire these educators.
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ThorLoser
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:20pmMy wife and I took our daughter out of public school 2 days ago and started home schooling her.
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freemama
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:35pmCongratulations! Make sure to connect with other homeschoolers near you so you don’t have to go it alone.
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Hmschlmom
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:44pmAPPLAUSE!!!
You will never regret it.
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bigdaddyt46
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:47ami found out just the other day that my nephew got in trouble for having sex with his teacher, the worst part is that he’s home schooled. GIT ‘ER DONE.
Larry The Cable Guy
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tradcatholicgirl
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:18amGod Bless You!
There is probably website for info on homeschool laws for your state too, but a local homeschool group can held out a lot with all your questions.
Depending on your faith life, there will even be a group with similar values.
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Carlinpa
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:12pmAmazing again.. just when you think things in the Government schools couldn’t get anymore crazy or Anti-American, this happens.. There are really unashamed and out in the open about there hatred and ignorance.
Things like this have been happening for years. It was much more subtle. I remember reading a text book from a younger sister in law that had descriptions of Winston Churchill is slightly negative and it had Hitler described in positive attribute in describing their demeanor and countenance. It was very nuanced, not blatant.
Very dangerous and persistent these whack jobs are.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:16am“TheBlaze also reported that teachers were “asked to sign a contract that would prevent them from revealing what was in the CSCOPE lessons or face civil and criminal penalties.”
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If they have to hide what is in the lessons, then you know something is afoul. This lesson plan should be transparent, but it is more in line with Zero’s administration in hiding what they are doing. If they cannot/will not show you what they plan to do, run like hell from it. Do not trust people like this.
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braddock66
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:07pmWhat a joke! America is the last best place left on earth. Will we do anything about it? Wolves in sheep’s clothing are among us.
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TerryJ70
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:04pmJust another reason why the Department of Education needs to be terminated. They have been putting this kind of garbage in our kids’ education, ruining a generation. This has to be controlled by the states.
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wordweaver
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:21pmYes. Abolish Education and Energy and funnel the money to Defense until Congress eventually pulls its head out and overhauls our budget. Hey, it could happen.
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Mil Mom
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:46pm@wordweaver
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:21pm
Yes. Abolish Education and Energy and funnel the money to Defense until Congress eventually pulls its head out and overhauls our budget. Hey, it could happen.
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But under john kerry, do you think it will go to protect our nation or be funneled back into the same subversion?
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:03pmLast year my granddaughter brought home definitions of communism, socialism, and capitalism. The former two were “nice” little systems that help people. Then they had to choose what system would work best for different people…i.e. the young single mother with 3 kids, who needs all that wonderful government help.
So guess what the child chose for that: communism, of course! And other such questions were posed.
I still need to make waves about this.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:34amYou are still unaware that you presently live in a Communist country though:
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2. “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.” (U.S. Constitution: 16th Amendment, ratified Feb. 3, 1913)
5. “Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.” (Federal Reserve Act of 1913, December 23, 1913)
Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto (Proletarians & Communists)
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Mornwood
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:00pmThat one was caught but just think of how many things like this are not caught.
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Patriot Z
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:00pmdo decisions have effects on tothers..of course, only fools would think otherwise. however only a much greater fool would think that other countries would not make decisions in their own interestes over ours any day.
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MistyMountainGranny
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:58pmBill Ayers…. Makes Obama look like an amateur… They have turned the tide successfully. All because America was too busy to pay attention.
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sarahsnow
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:33ambilly and 0sama and 0bama sitting in a tree, set us up for 9/11//2001 and droned the twin towers…(9/11 had to do with the carbon trading Green, Kyoto agenda Chicago climate exchange and selling phony carbon credits,,or how did we get a no name one term do-nothing community dis-organizer with ties to Saudi/Hamas/Ayers and every other anti-American group in the world in our whitehouse??? (1152 people in direct competition with the Chicago climate exchange were killed in the twin towers…
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welovetheUSA
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:57pmSome parents are paying attention…….most are not…to busy working and paying the tax money to these idoits trying to destroy our country through our kids…….go get them now.
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Listen_then_think
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:49pmThe terrorist liberal left have been cramming that garbage into college kids for decades, now it has disseminated to the grade school level. They would be in jail if they taught that garbage in the 50′s.
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nweb
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:03pmI was attending college when 9/11 happened. The day after the attacks, I had my history class and the professor spent at least half an hour talking about how we had brought this on ourselves and we had no right to be upset by the lives that were lost because that attack was our fault and no one else’s. I say she spent at least half an hour, because after half an hour, I stood up, glared at her and told her that she was wrong and walked out of the classroom. I was not the only one that left.
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missdagnytaggart
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:07amHats off to you nweb!
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elsiedinsmore
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:45pmGet out of c scope and/or common core-they are communist doctrine and anti-american
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SUNTZU
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:42pmEvery action has a reaction. Just
being yourself sometimes is enough.
Good or bad thats right.
However
Its crazy to say
Food,meds.housing,etc are rights.But when you say
Right to work They go crazy
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spirited
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:11pmVery excellent.
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Max jones
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:40pmThis typical progressive subliminal propaganda….and we are just now noticing……This type of insidious crap has been going on under our noses for a while now.
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AMERICA4EVER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:46pmThe new “history.”
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:18amSome of us have noticed this propoganda for quite some time…
Two weeks from the day we were attacked on 9/11/01 (while rescue crews where still trying to locate survivors in the rubble of the twin towers) Ron Paul took to the floor of the House to explain why we had just been attacked, pointing his finger squarely at American policies for bringing about what had occurred just two weeks before, almost justifying the attacks that had just killed almost 3,000 Americans.
Let us NOT forget. Ron Paul may be gone… but his warped sense of reasoning rests with his former acolytes who are still here (just like a Liberal education) spreading their America blaming and pro Islamic seed from whatever spider-hole they can find.
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njoelhickson
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:25amI am not sure where so many of you can find the fault in that question. Let’s review a little bit of history shall we? Fact: Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1951. He was in power by the will of the Iranian people. Fact: The United States organized a coup which ousted the rightful leader of Iran and replaced him with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (The Shah).
The United States government has been meddling in the affairs of the Middle East ever since. The United States government has interfered in the politics of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and other middle east and Arabic countries for about three quarters of a century.
Any yet….you have the nerve to call us conspiracy theorists and “anti American” when we point out that the government has blatantly ignored George Washington’s exhortation to refrain from inserting ourselves in the political affairs of foreign countries. You are not stupid…you are willfully ignorant of history and the fact that actions have consequences.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:29pmNJOEL. So what you’re saying is that it wasn’t beyond foolish and borderline treasonous to be parroting the taking points of the Islamic enemy as the cassus belli as their justification to slaughter over 3,000 innocent American civilians using civilian airliners as missiles?
A presidential candidate used the Al Qaeda statement of justification for 9-11 as a reason to blame ourselves for the attack and therefore change our foreign policy as a result is beyond forgiveness.
Such thinking would demand we apologize to the Imperial Japanese for provoking their bombing of Pearl Harbor because our naval base there threatened their Pacific expansion. Ron Paul and others would have us apologize to Al Qaeda for provoking them into attacking us because we had troops in a nation he was exiled from at the invitation of the Saudi government.
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