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NEA delivers history lesson
-Washington Times
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The National Education Association is suggesting to teachers that they be careful on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks not to "suggest any group is responsible" for the terrorist hijackings that killed more than 3,000 people. Instead, the NEA recommends teachers "discuss historical instances of American intolerance."
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Lesson Plans: September 11 in the classroom
-National Review
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The National Education Association is under fire for its advice to teachers on how to spend the anniversary of September 11. The critics say that the NEA's lesson plans are too relativistic and insufficiently patriotic. Students would hear a lot about "intolerance": the need to avoid it, America's shameful history of same.
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NEA's Terrorism Tamers
-Washington Times
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Tolerance is distinctly a Western attribute that is not shared by most of the Islamic world, but is it the lesson of September 11?
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Commemorating 9-11: Blaming America, exonerating Islam
-World Net Daily
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The NEA materials not only lie... but also offer a grotesque distortion of current world affairs.
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What Are Schools Teaching About Sept. 11?
-Fox News
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This is the tip of the huge iceberg of bad advice that is being sent out to teachers and educators by the NEA and a whole bunch of other educational organizations as September 11 gets near. And it's advice that is based in relativism and a kind of lack of attention to patriotism and history. A lot of it is kind of psycho therapeutic. It worries about how the kids are feeling rather than what they know.
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NEA plan for 9/11 not backed by teachers
-Washington Times
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Teachers nationwide say they will develop lesson plans about September 11 based on students' questions and will focus on the facts to correct any misconceptions children may have about the terrorist attacks.
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More teachers shun NEA's 9/11 lessons
-Washington Times
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The New York and West Virginia affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers are the latest teachers' unions to reject the National Education Association's suggested September 11 lesson plan that cautions against assigning blame for the terrorist attacks.
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Teaching 9/11
-National Review
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In response to the NEA curriculum, which is adversarial toward Americans, concluding that we're constantly on the verge of committing ethnic pogroms, a group releases a suggested curriculum that might be more honest in its approach to 9/11.
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History in Crisis
-Fox News
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When it comes to knowledge of their nation's history, American students are as dumb as rocks.
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Study: History Still a Mystery to Many Students
-Washington Post
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Nearly six in 10 of the nation's high school seniors lack even a basic knowledge of U.S. history,
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Government education system co-opting parental authority
-F21SC
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Many parents have allowed a government-mandated educational system to co-opt parental authority over their children. As a result, parents remain responsible for the children, but the state is gaining increasing authority over how children are educated and how children are raised. This leads to a weakened family unit and is contributing to a degraded society.
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Indoctrination systems fail to prepare children
-F21SC
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Nationalized test scores show that the California education system consistently ranks among the lowest in the nation, and that the Santa Cruz County government education system ranks below average in the state.
A key reason for this low performance is that many parents unwittingly surrender responsibility for their children's education to a state-sponsored educational system that places social, political, and environmental indoctrination over basic education.
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