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Hundreds of Colorado students protest history curriculum changes that would promote patriotism | Fox News

ARVADA, Colo. – Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay.

The youth protest in the state's second-largest school district follows a sick-out from teachers that shut down two high schools in the politically and economically diverse area that has become a key political battleground.

Student participants said their demonstration was organized by word of mouth and social media. Many waved American flags and carried signs, including messages that read "There is nothing more patriotic than protest."

"I don't think my education should be censored. We should be able to know what happened in our past," said Tori Leu, a 17-year-old student who protested at Ralston Valley High School in Arvada.

The school board proposal that triggered the walkouts in Jefferson County calls of instructional materials that present positive aspects of the nation and its heritage. It would establish a committee to regularly review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials "promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights" and don't "encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law."




I'm with the students on this one. Complete bs on the part of that school board. No curriculum should be biased or censored, just straight facts.
 
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Hundreds of Colorado students protest history curriculum changes that would promote patriotism | Fox News







I'm with the students on this one. Complete bs on the part of that school board. No curriculum should be biased or censored, just straight facts.

But, but, but....the wingnuts on the school board have legitimate concerns!!

JeffCo teachers, students protest proposal to promote 'patriotism' in history classes | CPR
School board member Julie Williams, who sponsored the proposal, said people have misinterpreted what she’s trying to do. She said she’s not trying to eliminate the facts of U.S. history but shares the concerns conservatives nationally have outlined – that AP History casts some parts of history in a negative light, such as the bombing of Hiroshima and slavery. - See more at: JeffCo teachers, students protest proposal to promote 'patriotism' in history classes | CPR
 
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Hundreds of Colorado students protest history curriculum changes that would promote patriotism | Fox News

I'm with the students on this one. Complete bs on the part of that school board. No curriculum should be biased or censored, just straight facts.


Hey AW :2wave:

I agree...that's ridiculous. Unfortunately school textbooks almost always have some sort of agenda, especially in regards to US history. That's why I tend to be leery of public schools these days. I understand the need for them, I do, but I hope that we can phase out of needing them sometime in the future. I think government-run education is dangerous.
 
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Students are dumb. I'll be impressed when they do the same thing for firearms.
 
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Students are dumb. I'll be impressed when they do the same thing for firearms.

Considering firearms are not part of school curriculum, why would students protesting as students do the same thing for firearms?
 
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Considering firearms are not part of school curriculum, why would students protesting as students do the same thing for firearms?

Because the whole thing is, "boo boo hoo boo free speech everyone should have an opinion boo boo hee boo, maaaaan. why be patriotic when the government does chem trails maaaaaan 911 truth is patriotic maaaaan boo boo hoo boo"
 
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Sounds like someone needs a nap
 
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The animals are running the zoo.
 
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At least they're not creationist students protesting science curriculum.
 
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Because the whole thing is, "boo boo hoo boo free speech everyone should have an opinion boo boo hee boo, maaaaan. why be patriotic when the government does chem trails maaaaaan 911 truth is patriotic maaaaan boo boo hoo boo"


I doubt anyone is promoting truthers are being patriotic.
 
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Because the whole thing is, "boo boo hoo boo free speech everyone should have an opinion boo boo hee boo, maaaaan. why be patriotic when the government does chem trails maaaaaan 911 truth is patriotic maaaaan boo boo hoo boo"

That's not really the point at all. But I suppose if you needed to get the stupid out of your arguments, you might as well dump it all into one post.
 
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And the curriculum the right wingers are promoting will ensure they get one

I don't think so. Seems to be all the rage on this forum.
 
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including messages that read "There is nothing more patriotic than protest."

These children are self absorbed idiots.

I don't blame them though. Their parents are probably even more self absorbed idiots, so it isn't like the kids had a chance.
 
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History is mostly a collection of lies created by the victor.

All history is biased. As Leftwing socialists control most public school and college history textbook publication houses, their Leftist agenda is quite apparent.

In all the history textbooks I've seen over the years, Communists get a free ride. As their agenda is hardly different than Liberals who write the books. Every single history book I've looked at will have a least one dedicated page in the WW2 section on the Holocaust, and nothing on greater number of atrocities done by the Soviets. Hitler bad, Stalin good. Biased? For sure.

Liberals have only a narrow view of what "civil rights" are. For typical, brainwashed American liberals, they believe it is still 1963 and Blacks and other ethnic groups still suffer under Jim Crow Voter Laws and the never ending problem of "racism and discrimination." Factors that will take another 2,000 years to erase, it seems.

Black liberals, on the other hand, still think it is 1864, and as oppressed slaves, they can only have "justice" when they have taken over all forms of government through revolutionary acts. This is what they are demanding in Ferguson, Mo. And what has already happened in Detroit, and so many other cities across the nation.

Would you call that "Black Supremacy" or just "Social Justice?"
 
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What are these protesting stupids, I mean, students, so afraid of? It's pretty obvious. They know that students are so goddamn stupid that they'll just drool and nod and obey whatever curriculum gets approved, unless smart students come to the rescue.
 
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History is mostly a collection of lies created by the victor.

All history is biased. As Leftwing socialists control most public school and college history textbook publication houses, their Leftist agenda is quite apparent.

In all the history textbooks I've seen over the years, Communists get a free ride. As their agenda is hardly different than Liberals who write the books. Every single history book I've looked at will have a least one dedicated page in the WW2 section on the Holocaust, and nothing on greater number of atrocities done by the Soviets. Hitler bad, Stalin good. Biased? For sure.

Liberals have only a narrow view of what "civil rights" are. For typical, brainwashed American liberals, they believe it is still 1963 and Blacks and other ethnic groups still suffer under Jim Crow Voter Laws and the never ending problem of "racism and discrimination." Factors that will take another 2,000 years to erase, it seems.

Black liberals, on the other hand, still think it is 1864, and as oppressed slaves, they can only have "justice" when they have taken over all forms of government through revolutionary acts. This is what they are demanding in Ferguson, Mo. And what has already happened in Detroit, and so many other cities across the nation.

Would you call that "Black Supremacy" or just "Social Justice?"

OP story = Right wing school board wants to censor history

Right wing take away = Liberals want to censor history!!!
 
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Considering firearms are not part of school curriculum, why would students protesting as students do the same thing for firearms?
lots of public and private schools pretend that the second amendment does not recognize an individual right and said schools denigrate hunting and other legitimate firearms use

ask any vet who served in the pacific theater circa 1945 if the nuking of Japan was a good thing
 
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Students are dumb. I'll be impressed when they do the same thing for firearms.
That's why they are students.But tehy have been taught little but negatiivity about their history so it\s natural to them that anything positive about America is just propaganda. Trashing America is their truth.

I doubt they'll adopt the same attitude about trashing other countries of the world. They'll be the victims.
 
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OP story = Right wing school board wants to censor history

Right wing take away = Liberals want to censor history!!!

OP Story = School Board wants curriculum to promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights.

Left Wing Takeaway = Right wing wants to rewrite history!!
 
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Kids might be maximalists, but at least they fight for what they consider to be right.
Reminds me of "Dead Poets Society". It's much better to think about what happens around, be involed and mistaken rather than blindly obey.
 
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