In the past I have written many articles about the crap around what is called “Charter Schools”…..these are the way that the Uber-Right has hijacked the education of our children…..I have called it education by lotto.
My friend Xena of “We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident” turn me on to a new aspect of charter schools………
It seems that a teacher in Texas gave a homework assignment of giving positive aspects of slavery……
A Texas charter school is apologizing after a teacher gave an assignment to an eighth grade American History class, asking students to list the positive aspects of slavery.
“When I first read it, I thought, this was b.s.,” said Great Hearts Monte Vista eighth-grade student Manu Livar.
Continue reading: Homework assignment asks students to list positive aspects of slavery
I know there are many that actually think there is positive aspects to slavery….but somehow I think that are deluded or just plain racist.
This is why our educational system sucks……..revisionists teaching our children.
I am not aware of ‘charter schools’. Doesn’t sound too good though.
Best wishes, Pete.
Charter schools are a way to segregate and make it sound noble some how….chuq
Ah, we have ‘faith schools’ here. Propaganda factories.
sounds similar….the GOP champions charter schools as an answer to public education
I have to whole heartedly agree with your assessment of so-called “Charter Schools” and for much the same reasons that you have listed here. I will go one step further, however. I do not like a lot of them because they sneak their own brand of religion into the curricula and force-feed it to their students.