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*party decries education as an indoctrinating force* ---three-quarters of Paulites are desperate college grads, Santorum wants to bring people to the churches and forces baptisms on his children, and Romney is a Harvard JD/MBA with the dean of Columbia Business School and a tenured Harvard professor as his main economic advisers.
Wait, gwayneco didn't think my joke was funny. I don't even know what to think any more. My entire world has been turned upside-down and inside out. Kinda like how I turned his mom over that way.
We should erect a wall in the center of the country and put all those cray leftists on the other side of it!
Teacher is stupid. I don't think 8th graders can compete with the investigators hired by every political opponent of a particular candidate. This assignment is straight out of Nero's playbook! Run!
regardless of the source or the OP, I can see how in a civics class or an english class teacher would make an assignment and split their groups up into pros and cons. from the article it says the teacher didn't do this or give an equivalent assignment on the weaknesses of Obama. if you are teaching compare and contrast for a class presentation, you're going to have to have two sides of an issue and splitting the kids up into each group is the only right way to go about this. obviously the article is slanted to reach the emotions of GOP readers, but perhaps the class didn't get far enough in the semester to get to the anti-Obama side of things...
from the article: I agree with the principal. Bad judgement by the teacher. As a sidenote, wouldn't it have been a much more interesting and useful assignment to find strengths of the candidate and write a paper on how to showcase those in the best light? Or possibly how to respond to weaknesses. We've enough negative campaigning. Too easy. Too lazy. Too ugly. And adds to disillusionment with politics overall.
Very likely. At this point in the school year, testing and test preparation leave little time for teaching.
Back in my day one kid would take one side of a topic and another kid would take the opposing side, and then they would give presentations on their topics. It's too bad that mushy-cushy "fair and balanced" and it's associated warm-and-fuzzy "everybody's a winner" belief has escaped our society. Now it's only about the oneside; at least in one school in Fairfax County, Virginia. And a darn good economist at that: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
This reminds me of that movie where the president of America prepares to speak to American schoolchildren in a televised address broadcast to them at school and then the parents went all crazy and decided that the president of America speaking to American school children amounted to "indoctrinating" them. And then I woke up. oh, wait
