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Is This Iowa High School Teaching Students Communism Is Better Than Capitalism? See the Flyer

(Updated information on this story has been added to the end of this article.)

This curious flyer was handed out to students studying the history of the Cold War at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa.

What do you think the lesson was supposed to be?

 

Iowa Students Taught That Communism Is Better Than Capitalism

Let’s review.

The CAPITALISM side of the flyer shows workers in tattered clothing, chained to a machine that delivers all of the money produced to a cigar-smoking man who is also much better dressed.

Over on the COMMUNISM side, there is no boss and the smiling workers are better dressed, don’t have chains on their legs and the money goes back to them.

This gem was discovered by Simon Conway of Iowa’s Who Radio. A listener who is a parent of a student at the high school, sent the hand out to the radio host. Conway read the words of the flyer verbatim:

“Communism stands for equal sharing of the work according to the benefits and ability. But in Capitalism an individual is responsible for his works and if he wants to raise the ladder, he has to work hard.”

He continued to read and clarify further:

“While the profit of any enterprise is equally shared by all in Communism, the profit in the Capitalist structure belongs to the private owner only.”

Conway contacted Roosevelt High School for an explanation and was told that only person who could speak for the school on this topic is the principal. The Blaze has also reached out to Principal Kathie Danielson for comment. As of this writing, the principal has not responded.

 

UPDATE: Several calls to Roosevelt High School have gone unanswered. However, the school’s website did post a formal response. We are posting the entire statement from the school, unedited.

RADIO TALK SHOW MISREPRESENTS CLASS LESSON ON COLD WAR

A talk show on WHO Radio has unfortunately misled listeners about a class lesson about the Cold War. The radio show posted, on its web site, only a selectively edited part of a class handout – entitled “The two sides of the Cold War” – in order to give a false impression that students were being taught to support communism.

In light of the misrepresentation caused by this talk show, we have posted the handout and assignments here on our web site so that people can see the complete document for themselves. Furthermore, the class, 20th Century History, was studying the Cold War and propaganda, looking at some of the arguments both sides made about why their system was best on a range of topics, including their economies. The handout simply highlights the differences between capitalism and communism, and some of the arguments made during the period of the Cold War.

It is unfortunate that a talk show host decided to mislead his listeners in order to generate false criticism of our schools and our teachers.

To see the unedited lesson and assignments, click here.

 

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  • The patriot.
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:47am

    That‘s why they want to control the school they have to go after the next generation we know the truth so their propaganda doesn’t work on us. Why do you think that teachers unions fight so hard that how they win by teaching next generation that freedom and liberty doesn’t work and capitalism is evil
    that‘s why they have to get rid of private schools and homeschooling it’s a threat to them they can only win if we allow them to teach the next generation with their propaganda

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:19am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_zEHR0N8f4&feature=BFp&list=FLU9l5FNUIafCCgmzWMvBfrg
      you think capitalism is in even popular culture wise anymore?….
      you are old you have no idea- us socialists are everywhere

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:30am

      And MMC will be one of the first one’s shot when the ideology he advocates for is put in place. Don’t think so? Trotsky didn’t either.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:29am

      MC, we know and we take your number. Why is it, do you think, we buy extra extra ammo? To give our argument with an extra weight when time comes.

      Even if you “progressives” are successful in seizing the power, two things happen.
      1. Purges within your ranks. The less conformist elements, idealists, and those deemed malcontents (thouh useful idiots in the initial stage), will be squashed like cockroaches.
      2. People that had a smidgen of illusions about the socialism/communism will lose them pretty quickly. They’d realize the truth in ” All people are equal. Some people are more equal than others.” While under capitalism, the upward mobility s possible, in socialism when fully implemented, the society splits on two strata that solidify and there is very little movement between them. The upper caste, the nomenclatura, becomes a hereditary oligarchy (=aristocracy). I’d give it max 10 years for the nomenclatura finding itself swinging involuntarily from natural or artificial platforms.

      Czechs were forgiving towards their nomenclatura because they knew they were puppets of SU, with a little will of their own. Hungarians less so in 1956, due to their more excitable nature. Romanians opted for a “mussolini” approach as Ceaucescus were concerned. Americans, when they get really pi$$ed off, boy, you have no idea!

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    • Linda2955
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:07pm

      thats right . its happening more and more

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    • onemansthoughts
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:49pm

      mr molotov cocktail…..the only thing about your pride, is it blinds you…….

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    • mdsnod
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:30am

      Both sides use propaganda. The use of propaganda isn’t new nor is it only one sided. Besides, no one is trying to get rid of public schools or homeschooling. Both are far more wide spread than they were even 10 or 20 years ago. If you don’t like what is taught in the schools, then just teach your kids what you believe to be true. As parents, you have far more influence over your kids than any of their teachers do.

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    • bob169
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:52pm

      I would suggest that you actually READ the entire lesson.

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  • Artisan
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:47am

    The problem is that all the hippies from the 1960′s have weasled their way into our government offices and learning facilities. They are getting around retirement age and will be moving out of the way soon. Good thing is that most kids don’t listen to these imbeciles or even know what communism means. The only kids these ex-hippies reach are the Occupy idiots that have no clear message and smell like pot smoke while wearing a metal bar through their nose. 5 to 10 more years and these hipsters will be retiring and getting out of our establishments.

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    • marhee9
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:08am

      These people will never give up. It’s amazing that after all the history clearly showing the very low standard of living that takes place under a communist system, that there are still people that think life would be so much better. These people need to be removed from the job of educating our kids.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzy7c0JUWEA

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:10am

      These little union commies will only stop indoctrinating our kids, when we install cameras in the classrooms …. With audio, we have the technology and its cheap !!!!

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    • muddpuddle
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:16am

      You remove them one by one with your decision to school at home.

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    • Shupp
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:16am

      Have you met my generation? I call it Generation I….for Gerneration Indoctrinated. My generation is unfortunately the very first to be fully indoctrinated by the liberal education machine into thinking they all deserve something for nothing. It has a piss poor if any work ethic. 90% of them smoke pot. Which to me is not a bad thing in itself but you brought that up. Almost all think of democrats for the people and the betterment of society, and republicans as rich whale supporters out to take from them. How do you think Obama got in? My entire gen voted for him based on 2 things…1: “he’s not Bush or a Republican” 2: “He’s Black and therefore it would be a great step for this country.” not one of them could name a single policy he stood for in his platform for president. They are a gullable mass of retarded special kids who blindly follow what the LEDIA, Government, and Europeans tell them to do. They have no concept of self responsibility or actions thereof. So your theory of the hippies retiring and not being around. Yeah they wont be because they achieved their goal of brainwashing the youth who will take over their cause and support them in their old age.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:24am

      Shupp:
      I hear what you are saying, I feel sorry for your generation. However, my 14 yr old knows the difference between communism and capitalism as she was taught that from me, along with other things. I grew up in the 70′s and was taught responsibility at an early age. My point is it begins at home, and obviously your parents brought you up well, my hat off to them.

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    • vox_populi
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Oh don’t worry KentuckyPatriot, I’m sure as soon as your daughter reaches college our Communist Indoctrination Squads will add her to the roster too. You’re not the first person to think your progeny was immune to the charms of socialist revolution.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:53pm

      @Shupp
      90% of them smoke pot. Which to me is not a bad thing in itself …
      ———
      Come on, Shupp, this is the one weak statement in your comment. Drug addiction is part of the agenda. Moral anarchism works in perfect sync with communism. These kids live in an alternate world produced by habitual pot smoking. Pot affects memory and the ability to concentrate. You’ll never make an alpha male out of a weed addict. What you get are Obama-types, men lacking the drive to get this economy back on track or do anything productive in life.

      On a side note, let me clarify that the coke Obum snorted made no difference, given that he doesn’t have a brain.

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    • DebiQ1830
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:39pm

      Artisan … Nice fantasy, Art. Those same people infiltrated our academic system and have indoctrinated the masses against the values that this country was established upon. They won’t be retiring. Many of the brainwashed are extremely intelligent, hard working, business owners who think a man should work an honest day‘s work for an honest day’s pay and … that capitalism sucks and that it doesn’t work and that trickle down economics has never been demonstrated to work and socialism is the only way to goodness in our country and … yeah … no matter how smart some people are and how “capitalistic” they seem, the indoctrination is deeply ingrained, so they keep voting to perpetuate it. The OWS crowd, by and large, are rabble rousers who are saying, “yeah, you suck because … uh I have to pay my student loans and I can’t get a job because of a weed charge I got and … kill the cops because they arrest trouble makers and I should have the right to crap on the play ground and fondle hot chicks whenever and … uh, I‘m hungry Domino’s won‘t bring me a pizza because I’m broke and their capitalists. See? That’s what capitalism does, it keeps people hungry!” Did you vote, sir? “Hell no, Man. I was like out on my Dad’s new yacht.” What does your father do, sir? “Oh, well he‘s like a millionaire because he invented this thing that like everyone wanted and now he’s got like five factories and like 3000 employees. We used to be real poor, so it’s nic

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    • Bub47
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:56pm

      Having been a ‘Hippie’ and living in the SF Bay Area during the late 60‘s it is clear to me that a lot of you commenting on the mindset of ’Hippies’ have not direct experience. FWIW the original (not the johnny-come-lately druggy) ‘Hippies’ were NOT revolutionaries or communists. They were Liberitarians. They believed in live and let live and personal responsablity. Lyndon Johnson, that great socialist, was ridiculed even in ‘Hippie’ music (ref. the band Electric Flag where at the begining of a song a Johnson speech is greeted with a laugh track). This is not to say that there were not revolutionaries (the SDS for example) but they were not ‘Hippies’ and made a point of this themselves. Except for anit-war sentiment they were not especially political. Also ‘Hippies’ were always looking for the good in every person and situation. Lastly, not all ‘Hippies’ took drugs (me for example). FWIW, I am a ‘Paleo-Conservative’ (see Google) and worked for Barry Goldwater and even had a conversation in an elevator with William F. Buckley.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:51pm

      Bub47, apparently, the 5 original hippies (you amongst them) were hijacked by more drug-addled, commie-minded johnny’s-come-lately. Our sincere apologies.

      Funny thing, there’s an interesting parallel. In Early October last year, some OWS-ers claimed they are libertarians and that OWS is not about Obamunism. All 5 of them. Our sincere apologies.

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    • bob169
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:54pm

      Here’s an idea, try READING the article, it‘s obvious that you haven’t.

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  • Dudley Do-Right
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:46am

    It appears their website is being scrubbed but here‘s Superintendent Nancy Sebring’s work phone, 515 242 7766 and email superintendent@dmps.k12.ia.us

    http://www.dmschools.org/departments/administration/

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:52am

      yes, their website is either getting hammered or they have brought it down to scrub it.

      Here is some info to make a polite inquiry

      Principal: Kathie Danielson
      Activities Director: Keith Ellingson / 242-7277
      P: 515-242-7272 | F: 515-242-7350 | E: roosevelt@dmps.k12.ia.us

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    • BrotherWill
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:55am

      Totally scrubbed. None of the links work for Roosevelt.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:57am

      Let’s all keep at them until they “discover” their error!!!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:00am

      I wonder if this little commie teacher tells the about the 100 million dead at the hands of Stalin, Mao and Kim ??? WE NEED CAMERAS IN THE CLASSROOM WITH AUDIO !!!!!! they will stop this if they know they are being watched !!!!!!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:02am

      We need CAMERAS IN THE CLASSROOM WITH AUDIO !!!!!

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:23am

      Gee, I wonder where they got the idea of scrubbing their website? It’s a public school and they are scrubbing “public information.”
      These are not the droids you are looking for…

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:11pm

      Detroit, Although saying put cameras in the classroom sounds good, it is more like communism, big brother and the like. What we need is the Dept of Ed gone, schools back in the hands of each local community and parents involved with local Parent Teacher Associations (PTA). The main thing is parents being more involved in their childrens lives.

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  • gbfreak
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:45am

    LOL – stupid cartoonist switched the pictures!

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:31am

      I was thinking the same thing!

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    • Rainbow Dash
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:33am

      My thoughts exactly

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:08am

      Nah, just needs a little editing and explaining. The left side of the drawing is missing the word STATE (sorry, kids, mistakes do happen). STATE CAPITALISM, aka as neo-communism is what they have in China, e.g., where people are slaves for life, and have to work their @ss off for the capitalist commie elite. The COMMUNIST SIDE, is old school, aka as Marxism, and it is portrayed to look good on the surface to useful idiots. But you are no idiots, so you get it. There is no boss because the commie dictator, Obum, for example, is always away, playing golf, throwing lavish parties and vacationing on taxpayer money. The two guys getting all the money represent his union leaders and apparatchiks. As you can see, they never sweat because they don’t work. They just collect, hence the term “collectivism” (lol). The worker is a nonentity, so he/she is invisible. As a worker you are represented by the machine, because communism dehumanizes. All that matters is what you produce for the state elite. You are erased. And there you have it, kids. Communism sucks.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:21am

      Yes, The guy with the bag under “capitalism” is dressed like a Bolshevik.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:35am

      “They just collect, hence the term “collectivism””

      Kryptonite, you won the thread!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:55pm

      @Twobyfour
      Thanks, bud. :)

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  • Tx Spud Bar
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:44am

    two words HOME SCHOOL, but I guess this is 10 words

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:48am

      On paper and in theory Communism appears to be a beneficial form of doing things. Unfortunately in actual practice the system falls apart because most people are flawed by greed, arrogance and sloth. The greedy take more than their share, the arrogant want to run other people’s lives and the slothful just want to be taken care of without working. There is no “perfect” system, some just suck less than others…..Just sayin’

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    • RejectFalseIcons
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:02am

      People are not flawed by greed. People are naturally attracted to collecting the things they need to survive. Do not mistake this natural process with the label of greed.

      Greed is only truly greed when coercion, extortion or fraud are used to attain. So long as honest value is traded for honest value and both sides consent without deception, there is no greed in the equation.

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    • Zudarmardel
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:03am

      Home schooling is looking better and better every month. The school system is broken and the Teacher Union a corrupt Union.

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    • Fletcher13
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:17am

      Big Jay, how is it the one who takes all of the risk, buys machinery and pays rent, then give people an opportunity to make a living somehow “GREEDY” if he gets the lion’s share of the profits from his investment? It is not GREED, it is what is gained HONESTLY and what is DUE!

      I never got a job from a poor man! You will not have a job long from an unsuccesful man. GREED is what UNIONS and COMMUNISTS wish to EXTORT from those who were kind enough to offer people employment!

      If a person does not think that it is fair for the owner and invester of a business to het his FAIR SHARE of the money, then they should refuse to work for anybody, get off their lazy whiney arse and work for themselves!

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:51am

      Communism doesn’t work because it revolves around suppressing the strongest drive of human nature.
      Humans naturally want to reap the benefits of our own labor.
      When we take risks, we want to be able to reap the benefits if the risks pay off.
      We don’t want to support and coddle lazy parasites.
      We want to have a say in how our society is run.

      I could go on, but those are just a few of the reasons why Communism/Socialism/Liberalism/Fascism/THE LEFT does not work and N E V E R will.
      They are but a few reasons why Capitalism is the best and most prosperous system ever conceived.
      They are also reasons why every attempt at absorbing Left leaning principles in our society has been a miserable disaster and continue to increase poverty and misery

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    • 5061304072
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:00am

      BIGJAYINPA; What is “fair share” and who determines what that is?

      American freedom and capitalism has given the world more in the past 233 years than any other civilization in the past 5,000.

      Communism hasn’t worked ANYWHERE it has been tried. EVEN China has learned to embrace capitalism of some sort. Communism brought down East Germany, it brought down the Soviet Union, it is bringing down Cuba.

      Why doesn’t it work? Because it creates tremendous shortages of EVERY necessity.

      Anyone under the age of 30 doesn’t remember what it looked like in communist countries. They’ve never seen the long lines for bread and even toilet paper. They’ve not ever spoken to anyone who grew up under the brutal dictatorship of someone like Mao, or Stalin, or Pol Pot, or Hitler or Tojo.

      They glorify Che Guevara. They plaster his image on T-shirts, billboards, and many useful idiots even have his picture as their Facebook Profile pic.

      The history of the failure of Communism has been scrubbed from our public education system.

      Mama Obama told us during the 2008 campaign that “We need to change our history. We need to change our culture.”

      WHY DIDN’T ANYONE QUESTION HER ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANT AND WHY SHE SAID IT? WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK WHAT OBAMA MEANT WHEN HE SAID, “We’re just five days away from FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING AMERICA”?

      WAKE UP GOOD AMERICANS. WE ALL NEED TO BECOME PATRIOTS AND SAVE OUR COUNRTY!

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:27am

      Communism falls apart because the motivated always float to the top. There is always a leader and always followers in any system. The leader always enjoys a better existence than the follower. For people who want the benefits of communal effort and sharing of the profit, they should look into starting their own business and working with a co-op group to sell what they produce. It is the only part of “communism” that can work and it doesn’t require losing ones rights or freedom. Buy local.

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    • nuthrdumkinsrvativ
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:40pm

      “Under Capitalism man exploits man, under Communism the reverse is true.”
      The reason Communism and Socialism always devolve into repression is a simple law of nature. In fact, it is essentially Darwinism.
      Under Capitalism, goods and services are distributed based on the relative power of individuals to exercise their will. Power is measured with money which increases as one provides goods and services and decreases as they are consumed.
      Under Socialism, money is replaced with political power which increases by instilling fear that more goods and services will be confiscated from those who object and planting the hope that more goods and services will be given to those who provide political support.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:24pm

      “…co-op group to sell what they produce. It is the only part of “communism” that can work”

      Nope. Co-ops are not a part of communism, as an idea. The origin of co-op as concept is in guilds. The co-op under communism, though used as a label or moniker for a certain structure, was rather a part of central command economy, fully plugged into the top-down system of dirigism, with no independence, and not at all voluntary–it was a part of the coercion machine and the state was the grim reaper of proceeds/profits, if perchance there happened to be some.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 3:04pm

      Home school if you can afford the supervision and time to monitor……home school a child on their own?? Or are you suggesting that one of the parents quit their jobs and lower their cost of living and the child’s so they can avoid the “current realities”? Talk with your children and get to learn what they are learning and best of all SET the example!!! Kudos to that local radio show that discovered this crap and MORE parents involved with their children’s schools will go a long way!!

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:43am

    The teacher needs to have his error pointed out to him. The BOSS in the commie picture should be armed troops with their guns trained upon the back of the workers heads.

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    • Deepdiver58
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:04am

      Wow! What a paradigm! Gotta be a progressive at heart.

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    • ReynMansson
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:08am

      You confuse theoretical communism with the primarily fascist controlled economies of Russia and early Chinese gov’ts. Neither were textbook communist systems, no more than America is a true democracy.
      Both are adaptations of theories to meet contemporary situations. We have never seen a real communist nation nor a pure democratic one.

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    • booger71
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:17am

      America is a true democracy.
      ——————-
      That is because America was founded as a Republic

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:37am

      Rey-
      Marx’s children starved to death…That is real communism. It is a theory that cannot work with real, thinking human beings. The reality of the slothful getting the same as the artisan worker is folly. Capitalism works better, if you produce, you get paid. If you don’t produce, you don’t get paid. It gives incentive to produce. The better you produce, the more you get paid…Improves the quality of the goods. The whole problem is rooted in modern mans inherent laziness and the desire to receive without doing. The world needs to abandon money and go back to subsistence farming and local barter, local craftsman. WWIII will provide the opportunity to do just that, as the systems are soon to collapse under their own weight, with the help of the termite infested support beams (aka, commies, progressives, and OWS ner-do-wells)

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:00pm

      ReynMansson, the communism is an utopian ideology. No utopian system can work, because it is reductionist. It does not take into account human nature. Communists wanted to change the human nature (let’s not go into discourse why that in itself was an expression of evil), but in order to do that, they needed to use means to the end. The moment that happens, the whole utopian construct is negated, as the stratification takes place. The actual disparities that the communism was supposed to fix get even more pronounced and this bifurcation gets sets in stone. You end up with an oligarchy in which interest is to hold reins of power into perpetuity.

      To argue that the theoretical doctrine has never been implemented is inane and a sign that your ability to think for yourself is impaired. The means to an end are the actual implementation devices, and they are described in the communism’s edifices. That should already give a pause, to say the least, to anyone who studies it.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:07pm

      REYNMANSSON, America was never established as true democracy and that was by design. Pure democracies have failed miserably in the past. Ancient Greece imploded itself with a pure form of democracy, and Rome was doing the same thing when Caesar turned it into a dictatorship. America from the beginning was established as a democratic republic for good reason. Unfortunately, the left has dragged into the muck and mire where we stand today.

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  • tomloy
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:42am

    Amazing. Anyone who is familiar with communism knows this isn’t true.

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:01am

      what is the difference in communism and capitalism both let the elite be authoritarian…
      when the few get to have it all! one set of laws for them and one set for us peons
      still no banksters in prison-seems like america capitalism is communism-
      capitalism is commumism with the illusion-that its not
      capitalism said it would fix education its failed-
      capitalism said it would make healthcare affordable its failed
      capitalism said it would create jobs it has failed
      capitalists say we believe in free-enterprise but love to privatize the profits and socialize the losses
      capitalists have not fixed one issue-
      99 percent of medications are made in universities funded by the government then patented by corporations theft-via us tax payers funding it
      99 percent of technology comes out of universities.. funded by the government theft by us tax payers funding it

      capitalism is just a inversion of communism exact same thing- just a different name
      i just love it when people say capitalism is free- i just love it when capitalists say-
      the monitary system is not socialist! who created it-the people! no one owns resources under capitalism it is leased -

      rich people do not create anything- they are the middle men who inflate and deflate the costs of services…and that is– how it is

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    • hucksqr
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:12am

      Umm, no Mr Molotov Cocktail, you are referring to socialism on both sides. True free market capitalism and socialism are not the same. If you are referring to our system of “capitalism”, that is nothing more than socialism being gamed to look like a free market. Get it right sparky, government enforced collectivism has nothing to do with true free markets. Instead of Capitalism and socialism, let’s just call them what they really are, Freedom and tyranny. Thank God we live in a place where Freedom loving people are armed and can contest the “vote” of idiot statists.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:50am

      Molotov-
      Under our system, you agree to a wage for your effort from the employer. When the employer get richer than you from the deal, you don’t have a right to complain, if you were given the agreed upon wage. If you think you are worth more, renegotiate or go somewhere else. If you can’t find someone to pay you what you feel you are worth, start your own business. It is up to YOU to be successful. If you borrow money, how can you complain about the lender? You signed the deal. Don’t want ot pay it back or have your home foreclosed on, don’t get a loan. Do it the old fashioned way, earn the money then buy what you want. It really isn’t that hard. If the bankers break the law, they should go to jail. The law should not be changed so you can put them away after the fact.
      If you want to eat, grow your own.
      If you want a nicer house, build it yourself.
      If you don’t like being poor, stop being poor. Clean yourself up, get off your duff and earn money or create the things you desire, you can never be poor unless you let yourself become so.

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    • nuthrdumkinsrvativ
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:10pm

      Thanks HUCKSQR
      People are people. There will be good and bad in any group. Their presense or claims to membership in the group does not support or negate the beliefs of the group. In many cases, people claim mambership in a group as cover for their subversive behavior: Pedophile priests, Progressive Republicans, Crony Capitalists, Abu-Graib “soldiers”, Moderates. What separates the better systems from the dangerous ones is what happens to those who are exposed. When there are no competing organizations or open processes, the subversives gain and retain control.

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  • Rightallalong
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:42am

    I think we should all call and ask for the context …

    Principal: Kathie Danielson
    Activities Director: Keith Ellingson / 242-7277
    P: 515-242-7272 | F: 515-242-7350 | E: roosevelt@dmps.k12.ia.us
    Website: Roosevelt High School

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    • Todd P
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:51am

      Thanks for the information! Very useful post!

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  • LabLovingLady
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:40am

    This is hilarious because Roosevelt is in one of the most afluent areas of Iowa. The students attending this high school are either Upper, Upper class rich white kids or poor minorities. Those upper class kids have no idea what that flyer is promoting.

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    • LabLovingLady
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:00am

      Affluent :)

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    • NC1
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:11am

      But if they start adhering to communism to affluent turn in to effluent.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:28am

      And those are the kids that go to the top universities that are bastions of socialist ideology. The first thing they do is turn o their parent though, quite honestly, their parents were indoctrinated themselves and may be okay with this crap.

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    • TheBigMike
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:46am

      effluent

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    • erock33
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:27pm

      you must live on the east or south side of des moines because Roosevelt is not affluent or rich kids by any means and the only poorer sections of town are east and south (roosevelt is central). They have as many minorities as south and east side schools as well. Which is very few considering Des Moines is >90% white. Either way the assignment is ridiculous for any group of kids. Communism is not a classless society, there are only two classes the workers and the elites and they stay that way for life no upward mobility or chance to escape to a higher income bracket. All workers are equally poor.

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  • sooner12
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:40am

    This is dispicable. This only shows how stupid these people are regarding Capitalism. What’s my concern is the principal who allowed (promoted) the handing out this flyer. Who just created the flyer? Was it a student, a teacher or the principal herself?

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  • Tx Spud Bar
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:40am

    two words HOME SCHOOL

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:40am

    They dont bother trying to hide it anymore… They are complete marxist socialists , they are indoctrinating our children….. And like i always say, WE NEEED CAMERAS IN THE CLASSROOM…. we have the technology and its cheap….

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:39am

    is the worker in the capitalist photo pantsless? lol! those greedy capitalists make you work naked!

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  • california_red
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:39am

    Communism looks great to these academics on paper. Problem is they never look into the practice of it. The only actual result of communism in practice is death, inequality, and economic ruin. Too bad they can’t look to all the examples of where is has failed or is failing.

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:14am

      who is sending america into space now communist russia ?
      or america you are a ding-bat
      capitalism is communism “a worse form of it! its the super allocation of resources to the few”~

      capitalism for the last 30 years has shown it as not workable-
      who has a better standard of living
      who has a better education system
      who has less crime
      oh yeah those bloody-red socialist countries
      who tried to break socialism- capitalists and the europeans are learning that-
      american capitalists short sold them on purpose!
      Socialism Rocks
      CAPITALISM is just the myth that we have it better~! keep watching foxs news and dream that american dream

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:14am

      who is sending america into space now communist russia ?
      or america you are a ding-bat
      capitalism is communism “a worse form of it! its the super allocation of resources to the few”~

      capitalism for the last 30 years has shown it as not workable-
      who has a better standard of living
      who has a better education system
      who has less crime
      oh yeah those bloody-red socialist countries
      who tried to break socialism- capitalists and the europeans are learning that-
      american capitalists short sold them on purpose!
      Socialism Rocks
      CAPITALISM is just the myth that we have it better~! keep watching foxs news and dream that american dream

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 3:49pm

      Cocktail

      You forgot to mention that history proves communism/socialism always collapses under it’s own weight because like Margaret said, “eventually you run out of others peoples money”. We are watching what you hold up as our future happening in Greece. History is on the side of conservatism which is why your socialist Utopia will never come to fruition in this country. Better quit watching your propaganda TV and listening to Obama because you will be very disappointed next year when you are told that the free lunch is over and if you don’t work you will starve to death. But hey keep wishing, just don’t be surprised when reality slaps you in the face.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:38am

    I will,communism= death

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:08pm

      Capitalism blows socialism communism rocks~
      capitalism is all talk no show!

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    • michael48
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:28pm

      keep believing ****…you’ll be easy…next idiot..

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:55pm

      I will pay for your one way ticket to Cuba or North Korea.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:20am

      That was addressed to Mr Bottle with Detergent and Gasoline.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:22am

      That: “I will pay for your one way ticket to Cuba or North Korea.”

      For some reason, the comments don’t chain correctly.

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    • deadend
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:50am

      You need to learn your history, communism killer more people then any other ideoligy in history, they made the nasi’s look like rookie. It failed, even the supposidly communist country nof China is capitalist,we seam to be the only idiots go to communism not running any as fast as we can. Better dead then red.

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    • Clarkquinones
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:20pm

      Communism never works.it stops people from reaching their full potential.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:05pm

      Not true. You should have seen nomenclatura kids. Sky was no limit. For everyone else. — shared equality of grey, mind-numbing misery.

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  • notreally
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:38am

    Test

     
  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:37am

    Having been on or very near the former East German and Czech borders way too many times. I can honestly say from my observations that the Communist side of the flyer should be the one on the left. Naturally too. But there would be no boss collecting the money. They were always inefficient and even figuring a way to produce much of anything with actual value. A better change to the pic should be the boss standing behind the forced laborers with a bull whip.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:53pm

      I grew up inside the Iron Curtain (CZ). Despite the indoctrination at school, at the age of 10 when I was able to analyze the system and form my own conclusions, I knew already that the whole communist construct is a con job. Nothing that followed could dispel it, just the opposite. At the age 25 I’ve had enough. It took me 5 years and several trials to get outta there.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:17am

      TWOBYFOUR, Congrats to you. During my first of three tours in Germany we had the chance to visit the main crossing from West Germany into Czechoslovakia. The moment we stepped off the buses and before approaching the shallow stone wall which is as far as we were allowed to go, we got a briefing from the Cav unit there. We were told that we were being photographed from the Czech side with very high powered cameras, and to think well before we made any movements especially when moving our hands. They were waiting to be able to distort any potential photograph into an international incident. Parents were warned to have their children keep their hands in their pockets. This was taken so seriously that flipping the bird would almost be a hanging offense. Later I was stationed with an NCO who did flip the bird at an aircraft while stationed in Berlin. He was on his way to Hohenfels within the hour. They sent the contents of his room later, and he came to his with only the uniform that he was wearing on duty earlier. Anyway, while watching the Czech side of the crossing through binoculars it was nothing but depressing in appearance. As bad as that seemed, it appeared to me that the East German side was far worse. Glad to hear that you made it out of there safely.

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  • notreally
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:37am

    Teachers are not too bright, so we have to expect this to happen.

    The “2000 Profile of College Bound Seniors,” a report from the College Board which administers the SAT, tracked what majors 10,280 Michigan high school students chose in college. The highest SAT scorers shunned education majors, the lowest scorers chose education majors. Of the 6 percent of students who selected education as a major, their average math score was 35 points below the state average and 26 points below in verbal scores. Would-be teacher majors tied with “home economics” majors. And the results of their performance are obvious, to the whole world:
    12/7/07 Washington Post: “The scores from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment showed that U.S. 15-year-olds trailed their peers from many industrialized countries. The average science score of U.S. students lagged behind those in 16 of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based group that represents the world’s richest countries. The U.S. students were further behind in math, trailing counterparts in 23 countries.”

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:37am

    Another example why the government shouldn’t be in the business of teaching our kids,the public school monopoly needs to go extinct.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:54am

      Pretty soon the dollar will be worth Monopoly money. The whole country is in serious trouble!!!

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:37am

    my teachers in high school used to CONSTANTLY talk about how great Europe was because of all the vacation and early retirement. kids would buy into, because, who wants to work? right?

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  • rotcarpenter
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:36am

    Its missing the part where the Government shoots you in the head and steals your land.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Eminent domain is half there. The missing component is shooting in the head. Give it time.

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  • Godfather.1
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:36am

    This article provides absolutely no context for the flyer. Who handed it out? If it was indeed during class, was there any type of ongoing class discussion or exercise?

    Only showing the flyer doesn’t prove anything. But then again, the only purpose of posting this article on this cite is to stoke fears that communism is being promoted by public schools.

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    • carl1000
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:39am

      Go to an Occupy protest. Many would love communism. How in the world you can be born in the USA and still think communism is great is sickening Some people are just mental.

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    • Mannamomof4
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:47am

      I must agree with Godfather. Yes, we need to know what is being taught in the public schools, but more investigation should have been done before writing and releasing this article. “They haven‘t responded isn’t enough of an excuse. Get the full story, then tell us about it. Readers of The Blaze want the truth not catchy headlines.

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    • constitutionaldirective
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:47am

      OMG!!!.. Don’t get out much ? Ever heard of the “Story of Stuff”?

      I could name a others but that probably already exceeds your attention span!

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:48am

      Communism was being subtly fronted back when I was in school – over a decade ago. I see no need to assume that today is any different.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:57am

      Godfather1….did you not read the entire article? If you did, then you would have seen that both the Conway and The Blaze tried reaching out to the school and they basically blew them off….that should tell you something! Oh wait, you are probably a typical liberal and you all only take what supports your point of view.

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:03am

      @carl1000

      How you can make the jump from my comment to thinking I support communism is pretty incredible.

      To reiterate, all I said was that before anyone makes a judgement, the full context of the drawing needs to come to light. Without that, this drawing really means nothing. For all you know, it was used as an example for an exercise in propaganda or shown as example of the flyers distributed in the USSR.

      Without knowing more, it is no more likely that this drawing was used to promote communism than it was to criticize communism.

      Also, doesn’t Glenn tell you to do your own homework? Apparently Blaze writers know that most of you don’t do your own homework and just jump to a conclusion from whatever is posted on this site, regardless of how little information or facts are included in the article.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:05am

      Did you actually READ the article? Did you SEE the picture? Do you have a CLUE what communism is?!

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:11am

      @Popp40

      Let me get this straight, because the school has not given a response, you assume that means that it was using this promote communism? Sure, that seems like a reasonable inference to make. I mean, we all know that a non-answer could only be for one reason, right? Do you not think the school administrators have more important work to do than to respond to the Blaze?

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:19am

      @Popp40

      Also, it’s quite funny that you say that I must be liberal who only listens to things that support my point of view, when in the same breath, you are making an inference that only supports your view. I said that without more information, you can’t jump to any conclusions on this drawing. You, however, decided that this drawing could only mean one thing – COMMUNISM IN OUR SCHOOLS!!! Now who is the one who can only see things that support his point of view?

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    • moriarty70
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:46am

      The funny thing is that the article does provide some context that, combined with the quality of the drawings, tells me what was most likely going on.

      From the FIRST sentence in the article “This curious flyer was handed out to students studying the history of the Cold War”

      So odds are this was an old piece of Cold War propaganda in favour of communism. So it actually makes sense. When we studied the 50′s in high school we watched everything from “Duck and Cover” to “Rebel Without A Cause”. This was all about getting an understanding of the time by looking at it’s artifacts.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:51am

      Godfather.1…..how hard would it be for the school to simply say what the flyer was used for? If it was used as some have suggested on here to show Soviet Propaganda then it wouldn’t have even taken 5 minutes to explain this. After all shouldn’t the Principal know what is being taught in her school. How hard is it for her to walk down to the teacher’s room and ask? Sorry but there is a very hard push in our public school system to indoctrinate and push socialism/communism. If you do not see this then you are completely blind. Now you point out that the Principal may be “too busy”, however, what about the concerned parent who brought this to the local radio station? Is she “too busy” to discuss this parent concerns? I’m sorry but to say they are “too busy” is nothing more than a copout.

      As for me stating you were a liberal..that was wrong of me to assume because I don’t know you. However, as I said above…it would not take this school 5 minutes to give a response and there have been countless examples of teachers promoting liberal/progressive/socialist/communist views in our public schools.

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  • Joisey
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:35am

    Is he teaching a history course on Soviet Propaganda?

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  • pma_guy
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:34am

    Communism is equal sharing Kathie Danielson. Equally sharing the misery of countless millions.

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    • babylonvi
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:54pm

      Then she should be paid the same as the custodians and teachers(all employees paid the same), after all, everyone must share equally.

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  • noleftturn
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:30am

    …. what in the US of A is going on? Has everyone gone nuts?!

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    • mils
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:35am

      An interview with this teacher would be appropriate here…
      And please tell us the countries where communism has worked so well…

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    • noleftturn
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:44am

      …. I’ll be waiting… patiently.

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    • Christhefarmer
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:50am

      Funny thing is millions of Americans believe that picture. You would think that being the world has tried this multiple times and that communism always gets to the point were workers are chained to machines in tattered clothes they would know better. In a country were 1 in 7 are on welfare and 1/2 get more from the government then they give communism could never work. The only way communism could ever work is if all people’s favorite thing was working and had the morals not to cheat the system. Funny thing though if that was true then capitalism would still out preform it in all ways. No to have true communism the people have to be robots, much like an ant colony. Being that most people don’t carry their own weight now, the state would have to trim the useless fat and for the most part thats the people that want income redistribution. One thing I find interesting about the other side they hate those that believe their lies and if given their way they would remove them from the gene pool.

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    • NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:54am

      Our chickens have come home to roost! We’ve been headed in this direction for decades. The communists, socialists, marxists and other 1960′s radicals all hid in the colleges and univerisities, teaching their “crap” to us and our children. I guess their “Bat Signal” went out 3 years ago when Obama was elected. Now they are unleashing their propoganda at full spead.

      I get so tired of these marxist, pseudo-intellectuals who keep thinking the “grand utopia” is the only answer. They also keep forgetting (conveniently) that it ALWAYS FAILS! Please! Where is our McCarthy?

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    • Popp40
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:26am

      NOKOOLAIDDRINKER…..You fail to realize that those who are truly pushing for Socialism/Communism will not suffer. They have positioned themselves to reap all of the rewards. And they have “educated” (aka brainwashed) everyone into thinking that it is great. These individuals will not realize how bad it is until it is too late.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:43pm

      Popp40, actually, not so clear cut. Many of the “pushers” are actually useful idiots kind. They are for a big surprise, if it ever comes to pass. Some of them may not survive the first 5-year plan. They will be ones considered by the state apparatus to be subversives (after all, they already displayed that trait and established these creds, didn’t they?) and disposed off with prejudice, through show trials, or through no trials at all, rewarded by a work opportunity in a gulag/work camp.

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    • bob169
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:04pm

      You might try reading the WHOLE thing before commenting.

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:31pm

    Spend a week in Moscow and then talk to me… ( I did…)

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  • barber2
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:28pm

    “WE ARE LEGION : FOR WE ARE MANY.” OOh, Sounds so ” evil spirit-like ! ” Is that an honest to goodness threat ? Are we , ” non-legion ” people supposed to quake in fear ? Or are you just a big bunch of verbal bullies ? Thanks for the heads up and the warning. I will be sure to pass this information on to those who need to be ready for you ! ( bet you’re breaking out those black hoodies and your Molotov cocktails…shades of Communism and anarchy… too bad your parents din’t raise you better..what a waste of my tax dollars – both on your sad education and your future incarceration ) You are being destroyed by hate. Hope you wake up and realize it ..

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