An Arizona charter school is being criticized for using textbooks that "actively promote religious interpretations of American history." The main texts for U.S. History classes at Heritage Academy in Mesa are two books by Glenn Beck's spiritual predecessor,
OT, but I was just thinking last week: If there hadn't been a Civil War, how long (or whether) it would have taken to abolish slavery in the South. This was after a conversation with a Brazilian friend that, even though slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, people out in the country kept slaves until the 1960s.
<i>&quot;...and when the white boys had to put on shoes and go away to school they were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates.&rdquo;</i>
&quot;Religious books, including the Bible, may be used in public schools as long as they are part of an academic class and not a religious lesson.&quot; --DeAnna Rowe, executive director (!) of the State Board for Charter Schools.
Sure . . . if that academic class is &quot;History of Religion&quot; or &quot;Comparative Religion&quot;. But &quot;History&quot;? Why not &quot;Biology&quot; or &quot;Geology&quot; while you&#039;re at it, you numbskull? Yet another religious nut who&#039;s weaseled her way into a statewide school post, and yet more proof that &quot;charter&quot; is thin camo for &quot;Christian&quot;. Let&#039;s hope she&#039;s kicked to the curb in short order.
The Confederacy would have eventually collapsed because it had an unworkable system of government and a backward, outmoded economy. The remnants would have either petitioned for readmission into the United States or would have survived for awhile as a series of short-lived, unstable banana republics*. The United States would have eventually invaded and occupied the region in order to secure its own southern border and to keep other countries from moving in and taking over. After twenty years or less the political and societal situation in the former Confederate states would have been largely the same as they were following the Civil War and Reconstruction.
* Southern leadership was certainly well-qualified and capable of setting up and running a country, but sustaining one on a plantation economy while being largely devoid of industry would have been quite difficult at best. Operating a country under the predominant hardcore &quot;states rights&quot; ideology of the Southern political class at the time would have been all but impossible, as the Davis administration learned during the short time that the CSA was viable.
<i>&quot;...[slavery] was beneficial to African Americans ...&quot;</i>
That&#039;s why so many of them signed up during the annual recruitment drives. And why the Fugitive Slave Law was never actually enforced because slaves never tried to escape.
Damn that Common Core!
maybe he was concieved in Michigan?
or at least until we bought it
Good old Ev Mecham- along with Fife and Jan, we sure can pick &#039;em
OT, but I was just thinking last week: If there hadn&#039;t been a Civil War, how long (or whether) it would have taken to abolish slavery in the South. This was after a conversation with a Brazilian friend that, even though slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, people out in the country kept slaves until the 1960s.
<i>&quot;...and when the white boys had to put on shoes and go away to school they were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates.&rdquo;</i>
Everyone envied the freedom slaves enjoyed.
&quot;Religious books, including the Bible, may be used in public schools as long as they are part of an academic class and not a religious lesson.&quot; --DeAnna Rowe, executive director (!) of the State Board for Charter Schools.
Sure . . . if that academic class is &quot;History of Religion&quot; or &quot;Comparative Religion&quot;. But &quot;History&quot;? Why not &quot;Biology&quot; or &quot;Geology&quot; while you&#039;re at it, you numbskull? Yet another religious nut who&#039;s weaseled her way into a statewide school post, and yet more proof that &quot;charter&quot; is thin camo for &quot;Christian&quot;. Let&#039;s hope she&#039;s kicked to the curb in short order.
We don&#039;t want them. Sorry, no take-backs. I say this as a particularly pissed-off History teacher. Asshole.
I keep forgetting that there is no more racism. Except for liberals of course.
Computer network designers?
Oh it&#039;s still around. It is perpetrated by liberals and civil rights advocates, from what I hear.
I just have this hunch that such books would have been quite acceptable in a predominantly right wing historical context too.
The Confederacy would have eventually collapsed because it had an unworkable system of government and a backward, outmoded economy. The remnants would have either petitioned for readmission into the United States or would have survived for awhile as a series of short-lived, unstable banana republics*. The United States would have eventually invaded and occupied the region in order to secure its own southern border and to keep other countries from moving in and taking over. After twenty years or less the political and societal situation in the former Confederate states would have been largely the same as they were following the Civil War and Reconstruction.
* Southern leadership was certainly well-qualified and capable of setting up and running a country, but sustaining one on a plantation economy while being largely devoid of industry would have been quite difficult at best. Operating a country under the predominant hardcore &quot;states rights&quot; ideology of the Southern political class at the time would have been all but impossible, as the Davis administration learned during the short time that the CSA was viable.
<i>this charter school has a history focus</i>
Eeeeesh! Even if you sent them back to the stone age they&#039;d only be losing about 6 months.
<i>&quot;...[slavery] was beneficial to African Americans ...&quot;</i>
That&#039;s why so many of them signed up during the annual recruitment drives. And why the Fugitive Slave Law was never actually enforced because slaves never tried to escape.
If someone claimed that &#039;The 5000 Year Leap&#039; sounded Maoist, would the Heritage Academy still consider using it?