SC Teacher Used Limbaugh's Book To Teach Third Graders About Slavery

[pismoe]

I'm going to get the books , read them and if they are good I'll send them to the Grandkids

 

[whitehall]

Give it rest lefties. She "used" the book while apparently adhering to the school's curriculum. Next the radical left will start book burning fires like their nazi heroes and outlaw the Bible in schools. Oh, they already did that?

 

[MarcATL]

Doesn't bother me at all.

I guess this is why so many self-proclaimed Conservatives don't like teachers

Can you believe this crap?

SC Teacher Used Limbaugh's Book To Teach Third Graders About Slavery

Are you cool with this? Is this OK w/you?

If it was accurate, and given that Limbo's idea of history is childish and cartoonish, I suppose so.
I shrug my shoulders at it because at that age most of the history indoctrination the kids receive isn't any better.

Mainly it'll be lefty idiots who have a problem with Rush's book being used as a teaching tool. Shocking I know.

I have taken notice of the hyper partisans in the thread who are totally cool w/it.

Noted.

 

[MarcATL]

The fat lush is an amazing phenomenon. That book is about 75% fiction as is the garbage he spews on his show. And, the RWs just eat it up. They actually don't care that he lied about Paul Revere and that he ADMITS he lied.

OTOH, they feel the same way about faux - they know they're being lied to and they love it.

And, why is John Boehner so terrified of that fat drug addict? Why does he call him for his marching orders? That's an ineresting relationship but its failing because Ted Cruz is in charge of the House now.

The Republican party is just a hot mess.

Sadly, you are right.

It's crystal clear to see, at this point, that the radical right simply have no sense of decency, fairness or even common sense.

They are drivel by pure, rabid, partisan ideology.

Nother else matters to them. Nothing.

 

[Agit8r]

"I used that as a way to introduce the Civil War, you know, because we were about to enter a discussion on the time when slavery existed in our country, but because of what you said in the book and the way that you explained the Founders' passion for our country, it was because of that that slavery inevitably was abolished," she said. "So I felt like that would be a good way to get some conversation going."

Ah, truthiness...

 

[JWBooth]

If it was accurate, and given that Limbo's idea of history is childish and cartoonish, I suppose so.
I shrug my shoulders at it because at that age most of the history indoctrination the kids receive isn't any better.

I have taken notice of the hyper partisans in the thread who are totally cool w/it.

Noted.

Yep, just dripping with hyper-partisanship.....

gimmie a break...

 

[Dad2three]

Mainly it'll be lefty idiots who have a problem with Rush's book being used as a teaching tool. Shocking I know.

Did you ever wonder why they are called ditto heads? It is because they can't critically think for themselves. Poor poor lemmings of an angry white man who is seeing his world view collapse around him.

Nobody has done more to destroy our future than Rush. Children do not want to read a book written by a gasbag. Children deserve better than lies and demagoguery

Have you read the book and are you ready to point out the "lies and demagoguery" you seem certain lie within?

First, I have a degree in history (Minor Cal Poly) , second TIME TRAVEL AND A TALKING HORSE? lol

Pilgrims and Puritans are not interchangeable.


As Rush sees it,“The true story of Thanksgiving is how socialism failed.”

BZZ

Right Wing Continues to Push “Socialist Pilgrims” Myth


Despite a comprehensive repudiation by historians of the belief that the original Pilgrims were socialists who only began to succeed and prosper once they turned to capitalism, on this Thanksgiving conservative leaders and writers continue to spread the urban legend that the settlers were almost doomed by their socialist-ways.

Some background: according to real historians, the Pilgrims held their land in common “in the interest of realizing a profit sooner, and was only intended for the short term; historians say the Pilgrims were more like shareholders in an early corporation than subjects of socialism.” But the settlers, who came from different part of England, “spoke different dialects and had different methods of farming, and looked upon each other with great wariness.” Because of such difficulties, the colony scrapped the land arrangements in 1623, yet the colony held the first Thanksgiving in 1621 and the original “arrangement did not produce famine.”

But that hasn’t stopped the Right from propagating the myth that the failures of “socialism” forced them to embrace capitalism


Right Wing Continues to Push ?Socialist Pilgrims? Myth | Right Wing Watch


Leave aside the question of whether this country is on the march to socialism (conservatives say yes, and blame the Democrats). What does the record say?

Historians say that the settlers in Plymouth, and their supporters in England, did indeed agree to hold their property in common — William Bradford, the governor, referred to it in his writings as the “common course.” But the plan was in the interest of realizing a profit sooner, and was only intended for the short term; historians say the Pilgrims were more like shareholders in an early corporation than subjects of socialism.

“It was directed ultimately to private profit,” said Richard Pickering, a historian of early America and the deputy director of Plimoth Plantation, a museum devoted to keeping the Pilgrims’ story alive.

The arrangement did not produce famine. If it had, Bradford would not have declared the three days of sport and feasting in 1621 that became known as the first Thanksgiving. “The celebration would never have happened if the harvest was going to be less than enough to get them by,” Mr. Pickering said. “They would have saved it and rationed it to get by.”

The competing versions of the story note Bradford’s writings about “confusion and discontent” and accusations of “laziness” among the colonists. But Mr. Pickering said this grumbling had more to do with the fact that the Plymouth colony was bringing together settlers from all over England, at a time when most people never moved more than 10 miles from home. They spoke different dialects and had different methods of farming, and looked upon each other with great wariness.

“One man’s laziness is another man’s industry, based on the agricultural methods they’ve learned as young people,” he said.



Bradford did get rid of the common course — but it was in 1623, after the first Thanksgiving, and not because the system wasn’t working. The Pilgrims just didn’t like it. In the accounts of colonists, Mr. Pickering said, “there was griping and groaning.”

“Bachelors didn’t want to feed the wives of married men, and women don’t want to do the laundry of the bachelors,” he said.

The real reason agriculture became more profitable over the years, Mr. Pickering said, is that the Pilgrims were getting better at farming crops like corn that had been unknown to them in England.

As for Jamestown, there was famine. But historians dispute the characterization of the colony as a collectivist society. “To call it socialism is wildly inaccurate,” said Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a historian at New York University and the author of “The Jamestown Project.” “It was a contracted company, and everybody worked for the company. I mean, is Halliburton a socialist scheme?”

The widespread deaths resulted mostly from malaria. Tree ring studies suggest that the settlement was also plagued by drought.

But the biggest problem, Professor Kupperman said, was the lack of planning. The Virginia settlers came to the New World thinking that they could find gold or a route to the Pacific Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay, and make a quick buck by setting up a trading station like others were establishing in the East Indies.

“It was just wishful thinking,” she said, “a failure to recognize that these things are really, really difficult.”

The Tea Party’s take on Thanksgiving may have its roots in the cold war.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21zernike.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Dad2three]

"I used that as a way to introduce the Civil War, you know, because we were about to enter a discussion on the time when slavery existed in our country, but because of what you said in the book and the way that you explained the Founders' passion for our country, it was because of that that slavery inevitably was abolished," she said. "So I felt like that would be a good way to get some conversation going."

Ah, truthiness...

Founders passion? Oh you mean the first 4 of 5 Prez who owned slaves, but LOVED freedom....

 

[whitehall]

Get the book bonfires ready. The modern Nazis in the democrat party are ready to destroy the 1st Amendment for good.

 

[Mac1958]

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Lots of anger, name-calling and insults, of course.

And a nice helping of hatred of America's history and Founding Fathers, as usual.

Has anyone read the book? Perhaps you can point out the historical errors and we can discuss.

.

 

[hjmick]

Mainly it'll be lefty idiots who have a problem with Rush's book being used as a teaching tool. Shocking I know.

Did you ever wonder why they are called ditto heads? It is because they can't critically think for themselves. Poor poor lemmings of an angry white man who is seeing his world view collapse around him.

Nobody has done more to destroy our future than Rush. Children do not want to read a book written by a gasbag. Children deserve better than lies and demagoguery

Have you read the book and are you ready to point out the "lies and demagoguery" you seem certain lie within?

He'll reply just as soon as Rachel Maddow tells him what he thinks...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Progs don't even have to read the book to know its full of Capitalist misinformation. The American started a system where the proles had no power; rich white man used black as slave labors to build a nation where they could chew tobacco and create manmade global warming

We need to reform our educational system. We're paying for our cultural suicide

 

[JoeB131]

If Rush had a Time-Travelling Horse, maybe he could go back in time and prevent his arrest for soliciting a male prostitute in 1973.

 

[JoeB131]

As long as it's accurate I dont have a problem with it at all.

It's better than this crap no doubt...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFC1qFCgyA

No more scary than this..

 

[Lumpy 1]

To the right Rush is as legitimate a source of information as anything. Of course they are cool with it.

Democrats trust Obama's word .. how utterly stupid and ridiculous is that...

 

[Mad Scientist]

I guess this is why so many self-proclaimed Conservatives don't like teachers

Can you believe this crap?

SC Teacher Used Limbaugh's Book To Teach Third Graders About Slavery

Are you cool with this? Is this OK w/you?

Have you read his book Mark?

 

[Political Junky]

As long as it's accurate I dont have a problem with it at all.

It's better than this crap no doubt...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFC1qFCgyA

No more scary than this..

Can you imagine sending your child to a group like that?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

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Lots of anger, name-calling and insults, of course.

And a nice helping of hatred of America's history and Founding Fathers, as usual.

Has anyone read the book? Perhaps you can point out the historical errors and we can discuss.

.

No, I have not read it, but pardon me for being skeptical that a book written by Rush Limbaugh is an appropriate education tool, just as I don't believe it's appropriate for schools to be showing Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth as a scientific aid.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

As long as it's accurate I dont have a problem with it at all.

It's better than this crap no doubt...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFC1qFCgyA

No more scary than this..

Can you imagine sending your child to a group like that?

No, I find that kind of behavior incredibly disturbing.

 

[Jackson]

No more scary than this..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdt_f0hwUg

Can you imagine sending your child to a group like that?

No, I find that kind of behavior incredibly disturbing.

Religion should be free of politics. Do the parents know what this camp is doing?