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Topics => The "Educators" => Topic started by: oldcoastie6468 on November 10, 2013, 09:02:57 AM
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Jewish dad questions homework assignment, gets investigated for being a 'neo-Nazi'
By Todd StarnesTodd's American Dispatch
Published November 06, 2013FoxNews.com
Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., wants to know why the president of the local teacher’s union thinks he’s a neo-Nazi after he complained about a classroom assignment that he believed to be biased.
“I’m Jewish and my wife is half-black, half-white,” Barry told me in a telephone interview. “I am the furthest thing from a neo-Nazi.”
Last week, his daughter’s eighth grade American History class at East Pennsboro Middle School was asked to analyze a New York Times story about the recent government shutdown.
Barry, who said he is a registered independent, read the story and then read a list of questions his daughter was required to answer and he immediately determined the assignment was “grossly slanted.”
The worksheet included questions like “To what issue do House Republican leaders insist on tying the federal budget?” and “Whom do you hold most responsible for the government shutdown?”
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“The objective was not to promote any political agenda but to work on non-fiction reading skills,” the teacher wrote in an email obtained by Fox News.
Barry was not satisfied with the explanation.
“You will not indoctrinate my child,” he wrote. “If you are going to present articles with a slant to one side you are morally and ethically required to present the opposing views, to give an opportunity for the student, your captive audience, to come to their own conclusions.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/11/06/dad-questions-homework-assignment-gets-labelled-neo-nazi/ (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/11/06/dad-questions-homework-assignment-gets-labelled-neo-nazi/)
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Must be Common Core.
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“I’m Jewish and my wife is half-black, half-white,”
So what's up with the appeal to moral authority on the bases of race/religion? Who cares? It's not going to ward off the neo-nazi card and it will attract the race traitor label.
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It's meant to sharpen the incongruity of the moment. You're right though - it's offered as an inoculating agent (blacks can't be racist; Jews can't be antisemitic, etc). Remarkable (remarkably sad) how many buy that crap.
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It's meant to sharpen the incongruity of the moment. You're right though - it's offered as an inoculating agent (blacks can't be racist; Jews can't be antisemitic, etc). Remarkable (remarkably sad) how many buy that crap.
But it's done often and it never works. "I can't be a racist, I have Black friends, a Black wife" doesn't matter to the Left who proclaims that Blacks can't be racist but Thomas Sowell is an Uncle Tom because he isn't. ::outrage::
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Teacher is the fascist, as usual the trash calling people a Nazi is a Nazi themselves!
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Teacher is the fascist, as usual the trash calling people a Nazi is a Nazi themselves!
One of these decades, the DSM-5 will classify 'projection' as the mental disorder it truly is.