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Date Posted: 18:42:19 03/06/06 Mon
Author: chrys
Subject: Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth
In reply to: GarlicSoul 's message, "thanks for the new Nazi Youth" on 11:13:17 03/03/06 Fri

i am totally fine w/people thinking that this history teacher's statements aren't okay, as long as the same would be true if he said the reverse, as long as he'd get in just as much trouble for saying that the US is the greatest country in the world. that would never happen though. that gets siad in history classes and elementary school social studies all the time, and is just as arbitrary a statement, if not moreso.

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[> Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth -- light, 20:51:39 03/06/06 Mon [1]

Well yeah, Chrys. But I suppose US history classes in elementary schools are like CC/AS forums... as long as people are saying they're as great as can be, everything is fine ;)

Honestly, I have a hard time imagining there are many HS history classes where professors go on long rants about the US being the greatest country in the world. If that was happening, I think some people in most communities, if they were alerted to it, would have a problem with that too. It's not teaching, it's preaching. In any case, I don't think anyone here is saying that they believe that Bennish should have gotten in trouble for this.

Amadaun and Twan, my position has nothing to do with the mental maturity or intelligence of HS-age people. It has to do with having a solid base of knowedge about situations before having to draw or listen to conclusions about them by the person who is in charge of presenting that knowledge.

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