Our
children already do that. Children are able to make up their own
minds if you give them FACTS and not public school programming.
“Critical thinking” only gives teachers and textbooks the opportunity to
lead them in whatever direction their philosophy dictates.
Public
schools need to teach our children the FACTS and allow them to form their
own opinions. This phrase “critical thinking” might be well intentioned,
but public schools do not have the right to play mind games, to lead our
children to discern through their philosophies, under their frameworks and
guidelines. Public schools are teaching our children to filter everything
they are taught through what the school considers “rational.” The entity
of “public school” revoltingly has deemed itself to be a god, equipped to
program our children how to think.
The “thought
provoking questions” are asked of children after they are given a biased
version of a religion and led to respond the way it slants, repeating and
instilling public schools view on it. Our children should be learning
FACTS, to the best ability of the school to provide them.
Critical
thinking may be appropriate in other applications, but definitely NOT
religion. Teachers could not possibly grasp in full different religious
beliefs and are not qualified to determine the validity for our children.
The word “teach” means to sway a child to conform to the teachers way of
thinking, therefore teachers need to be limited to FACTS. In the “Bias
in Textbooks” section at BlessedCause.com, HUGE examples can be found
where the textbook imposes it’s own biased ideas as truth to children.
This absolutely must stop. Parents have the right to share faith with
their children without public schools atheist philosophies taking
advantage of unprotected innocent young minds and imposing atheist or
Islam beliefs.
This “wolf
in critical thinking” has been ravaging our children for years. The
outcry over the editing of our Pledge of Allegiance proved some of us
still remember what our nation was founded on, but if we continue to teach
our children untruths and “critical thinking,” what made this country
great will be gone. As the atheist in our local paper stated about
omission of God from the pledge,
“America
isn’t ready for it yet. We tried too much too quickly.”
Atheists
working against America and what she stands for have been slowly and
methodically dismantling our precious heritage and openly admit their
agenda. Will we continue to allow others to “get us ready for it?”
-JenT
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Most states have similar state standards or
worse. Many States follow the lead of California, Texas and Florida. FOX
News reported the following regarding textbooks on July 17, 2003
"What gets approved in three of
those adoption states — Texas, California and Florida — could have a
massive impact on what the rest of the nation's schoolchildren read.
"Those three states have a very
significant impact on textbook publishing. What happens in those volumes
wind up being at least the basis of national editions sold throughout the
country," said Stephen Driesler, executive director of the Association of
American Publishers school division.
As Driesler explained, that's
because Texas and California alone account for almost $1.5 billion of the
$4.5 billion in textbook publishing revenues. As the largest share of the
market, publishers and authors produce books that aim to please those
states."
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