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School recommends pornography for reading assignment

Posted  by on Jan 10, 2014; http://joeforamerica.com/2014/01/school-recommends-pornography-for-reading-assignment/#kOdTCC0fKygwVbJw.99

Thanks to a few attentive parents, we know that at least two Common Core Text Exemplars, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Dreaming in Cuban by Christina Garcia, contain pornography and vulgar language.

For details on these books, go here and here.

Dutchtown High School in the Ascension Parish School District of Louisiana  recommended both The Bluest Eyeand Dreaming in Cuban to students in 2012 as part of a required summer reading assignment. In addition to these two books, several others on the school’s summer reading list contain sexually explicit material, sexual themes, graphic violence, and profanity. Some of them recommended reading, some required.

 

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As shown in the screen shot above, 11th grade English III AP students were required to read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This book was previously banned for offensive language and sexually explicit content.

Another required text from the Dutchtown High School list is Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  Sounds harmless enough (and boring), right? Hardly.

In this book, Foster jumps immediately into race baiting his readers, in the Introduction no less, by comparing white people to the devil.

Many pages, including a chapter titled It’s All About Sex, are dedicated to “finding the sexual component in literature”. Readers are taught to look for sex in everything — such as identifying lances, swords, guns and keys as phallic symbols and chalices, grails and bowls as symbols of female sexual organs.

Unfortunately, CCSSO and the Obama administration have cunningly managed to evade accountability for The Bluest Eye and Dreaming in Cuban by way of liability waivers and by labeling these trash texts as ‘recommended’ and the standards as ‘voluntary’ and ‘state-led’.

States and districts, however, can and should be made accountable for this obvious attack on our children and on parental authority.

As explained here, at the heart of the Common Core State Standards is a political and social agenda. These standards are a means to further infiltrate and then take over schools for the purpose of indoctrinating and controlling our children, a vital step in an attempt to decimate the social and moral fabric of our country.

Ascension Parish has long been a politically conservative district boasting some of the highest performing schools in the State of Louisiana. The district recently ranked 7th out of 70 in the state. Today, however, it appears to be the district most enthusiastic to embrace the morally corrupt agenda of the Common Core State Standards.

Read more about Common Core in Louisiana and Ascension Parish here.

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Teacher’s 3rd grade lesson presents messianic view of Obama – literally

Posted  by on Nov 26, 2013 in

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And – surprise – it’s Common Core-aligned.

The lesson plan and accompanying visual presentation were authored by Sherece  Bennett, and is for sale onTeachersPayTeachers.com. It’s all based on  a book titled, “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,” by Nikki  Grimes.

The book is read aloud in the video below.

In one passage, a young Obama sees beggars and wonders, “Will I ever be able  to help people like these?”

“Hope hung deep inside of him,” the book adds.

Another excerpt from the book reads: “Before dawn each morning, Barry rose – his mother’s voice driving him from dream land. ‘Time for learning English  grammar and the Golden Rule. Be honest, be kind, be fair,’ she taught him.”

The story continues: “One morning, he slipped on the name he’d been born  with. The name of his father, Barack. For the first time in his life, he wore it  proudly – like a coat of many colors.”

Uh oh – another Obama-inspired Biblical reference in a government school! But  there’s no controversy here. Leftists will use God and the Bible, in instances  such as these, when it appropriately fits their propaganda purposes.

messianicNo story about Barack Obama would be complete  without mentioning his work as a community organizer. The book describes those  days in dramatic fashion:

“The work was grueling, with stretches of failure, and puny patches of  success. Door-to-door Barack went, early mornings, late nights, pleading and  preaching, coaxing strangers to march together, to make life better for  everyone.

“He worked as hard as a farmer, planting the words ‘Yes, we can!’ like seeds  in spring.

“Impatient, Barack kept wondering if those seeds would ever sprout. He  worried that the hope in him would fade away.”

This mythical interpretation of Obama was the #1 New York Times bestselling  picture-book biography of Obama, according to Amazon.com.

Bennett’s lesson calls for students as young as third grade to read Grimes’ book and do a number of activities, including making a collage of Obama:

“Have students bring in magazines and photos of President Obama. Have  students create a collage about Barack Obama based on the information from the  text. The collage should represent pictures and words about Barack Obama.”

Grimes’ book and Bennett’s lesson plan are more fitting for an authoritarian  regime in which children are taught to deify and praise their dear leader.  One can almost envision teachers in Cuba, Venezuela and Iran using similar books  and lessons.

Thankfully, that’s not the American way, which makes these learning materials  completely unsuitable for our classrooms.

Still, given the large number of activist teachers in the U.S., there’s a  very real possibility this is the version of Barack Obama’s history many of our  young students are learning in a school near you.

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Detroit is a “Conservative Utopia”???

Posted by http://joeforamerica.com/2013/07/detroit-is-a-conservative-utopia/

 

The Ed ShowIt is truly a sad thing to think that some people rely on MSNBC for their “news”.  After hearing some of the ridiculous stuff spewed by a few liberal family members, I am pretty sure they are avid viewers.

MSNBC is a disgrace.

Over the weekend, Ed Schultz, host of “The ED Show” on MSNBC had the following to say:

“Detroit, Michigan used to be, really, a symbol of industrial strength and manufacturing in this country, but thanks to a lot of Republican policies, the city is now filing for bankruptcy…”

Yes, he really did say that.  Don’t believe me?   Watch the first 2 minutes of this for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAzDbPumhA&feature=player_embedded&t=31 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAzDbPumhA&feature=player_embedded

 

Then the moron goes on to say:

“…earlier this year, (Governor) Snyder appointed emergency city manager, Kevyn Orr, who has taken over Detroit’s finances.  This, bottom line here, is an unelected official who began selling off public assets and slashing public services.  Detroit has just 1/3rd of its ambulances in operation.  The average emergency response time for Police in this city is 58 minutes.  And when you have horrible public services, no one wants to live in the city, which means less tax revenue to fix all of the problems and the needs of the public.  It is a very vicious cycle.  It’s the Republican way, and Snyder’s emergency city manager is to blame.”

Let us examine what Stupid, sorry, Ed, is trying to pawn off on his viewers.  Democrats have been in charge of Detroit since 1961, when the City’s last republican mayor lost his reelection campaign.  Since then, the city has had Democrat mayors and Democrat policies.  “Earlier this year” (ie: at most, less than 8 months ago), an emergency city manager was put in place by the Republican Governor of the state, and since he was unable to fix 52 years of Democrat destruction in 8 months, it is the Republican’s fault!

What on God’s green earth is this moron smoking?  How does this idiot have his own television show?  How stupid do you have to be to believe the crap coming out of this man’s mouth?

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