{"id":8458,"date":"2002-12-23T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T22:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/23\/new-york-school-textbooks-should-be-filed-under-fiction\/"},"modified":"2002-12-23T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2002-12-23T22:51:42","slug":"new-york-school-textbooks-should-be-filed-under-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/new-york-school-textbooks-should-be-filed-under-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"New York School Textbooks should be filed under fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

…An error-filled version of global geography. The
\nequator actually passes through Florida, Texas and Arizona.<\/font><\/p>\n

…On the shelves of school libraries is a biography for
\nyoung readers of the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is said to hail from the “long
\ntradition of activist ministers like Martin Luther King Jr.”<\/font><\/p>\n

…There is also a whitewash of Louis Farrakhan,
\ndescribed as a “black American of achievement” who bears a “message no American
\ncan ignore.” The Nation of Islam leader also shows a “willingness to forgive,”
\nthe book claims.
<\/font><\/p>\n

I guess the word whitewash <\/i><\/font>
\nhasn’t been politically corrected yet.<\/font><\/p>\n

…At least three schools have bought copies of “The
\nAmerican Vision,” a 2003 high school history textbook, published by Glencoe
\nMcGraw-Hill, that was one of the first to write about the terror attacks. In a
\nseven-page lesson on the massacre of 3,000 innocents, students are
\nasked:<\/font><\/p>\n

“What are the three main reasons certain Muslims became
\nangry with the United States?”<\/font><\/p>\n

“Why does American foreign policy anger Islamic
\nfundamentalists in the Middle East?”<\/font>
[Full
\nStory<\/a>] <\/p>\n

The other day their was a story about a college education being equivalent to
\na 1950’s high school education. And I thought a time machine was impossible, but
\nI guess an education time machine works. At this rate they will soon be able to
\nturn back a modern degree to a 1930’s 1st grade education. I am sertanly gwad I
\ngwaduated from a fine pubrick skool b4 day went bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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