TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS - WHAT THE HELL? An investigation into charter schools’ dishonest and unconstitutional science, history, and “values” lessons, by Zach Kipplin: Science isn’t the only target of the religious right. The movement also undermines the study of history. About President Franklin Roosevelt, it teaches, “The New Deal had not helped the economy. However, it ushered in a new era of dependency on the Federal government.” A section on World War II suggests that Japan’s military aggression was led by the samurai. I asked one of my former professors about this. Rich Smith, an East Asia scholar at Rice University, said, “There were no samurai in Japan after WWI; the samurai class was effectively abolished in 1876, after the Meiji Restoration in 1868.” Perhaps the workbook’s best line comes when it explains that President Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam War draft dodgers out of “a misguided sense of compassion.” Instead of being taught that 16th-century Spain had a monarchy, students at Founders Classical Academy are incorrectly learning that it had a form of republican government that was superior to anything that “native peoples” had created. On the feminist movement, Founders Classical Academy students are taught that feminism “created an entirely new class of females who lacked male financial support and who had to turn to the state as a surrogate husband.” One of Responsive Ed’s schools, Founders Classical Academy in Lewisville, Texas, where Responsive Ed is based, uses a curriculum far worse even than the Responsive Ed Knowledge Units. The school teaches American history from A Patriot’s History of the United States. The patriots book is “required reading,” according to Glenn Beck, and it opens with an interview between Rush Limbaugh and the author. slate/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.2.html
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:15:57 +0000
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