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North Carolina public high school proselytizing for Islam in vocabulary lessons

Dec 19, 2014 6:04 pm By Robert Spencer

“We discovered that the vocabulary lesson was taken directly from a state-adopted supplemental workbook published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.” This kind of thing is happening all over the country — partly because national textbook companies are promoting this proselytizing material. When questioned about it, school officials say it comes from the state, and that they can’t do anything about it. But more and more parents are catching on now, and this clandestine proselytizing is being exposed.

“New Details: Viral video alleges Pitt Co. high school promoting Islam,” WNCT, December 19, 2014:

GREENVILLE, N.C. – Pitt County Schools has responded to a viral video that alleges a Farmville Central lesson plan is promoting Mohamad and Islam.

The video, created by Dianne Lynn Savage, asserts that the plan is a vocabulary lesson for the eastern North Carolina high school. In it, Savage urges the audience to share the video as widely as possible and to not ‘just sit back and allow this’.

Brock Letchworth, the spokesperson for Pitt County Schools, said Friday afternoon that school officials looked into the matter and released the following statement about the lesson plan, “Late last night, it was brought to our attention that there were questions about a vocabulary assignment in a senior English class at Farmville Central High School. The course is designed to accompany the world literature text, which emphasizes culture in literature.

Concerns expressed to us were related to the religious nature of sentences providing vocabulary words in context. After an investigation, we discovered that the vocabulary lesson was taken directly from a state-adopted supplemental workbook published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. This workbook includes a series of weekly vocabulary lessons, and the lessons are used to teach vocabulary in context. Lessons are divided into a trio of topics including expression, civilization, and the environment. This particular lesson was pulled from the civilization section of the workbook.
Our school system understands all concerns related to proselytizing, and there is no place for it in our instruction. However, this particular lesson was one of many the students in the class have had and will have that expose them to the various religions and how they shape cultures throughout the world.

The vocabulary lessons apply to the following Common Core Standards for English Language Arts:
CCSSELA-Literacy.L11-12.4.A: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

CCSSELA-Literacy.L11-12.4.D: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
CCSSELA-Literacy.L11-12.6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

The Farmville Police Department also commented on the video Friday saying, “I want to let everyone know that I have seen the video post about Farmville Central High School and it is being looked into by the PCSO. The safety of your children is of the utmost importance to FCHS, the Farmville Police Department, and the PCSO. I would ask that instead of continuing to share the post and fueling the fire, that you allow those agencies involved to handle the situation.”…

By burying it? No, thanks.Pitt High School 1Pitt High School 2

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  1. Ann Inquirer says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    So who is paying to produce these books? The Saudis? Who writes these books? Islamist? We need to know who is behind this mish mash of indoctrination as English lessons .

    • terry says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      After reading the two pages, there is no doubt in mind it’s proselytizing.

      Islamic conquest is in full swing, it’s even promoted in public education, It’s good news that some people are vigilant and care about future generations.

      The bad news is that some are still trying to defend, justify the presence of such material or minimise its effect.

      I think this matter should be fully investigated to reach the bottom of things, so not to be repeated. If not and given the relentless attacks and defamation of anything Christian by the academic establishment, complete and sweeping Islamic conquest of the west would be a sure thing

    • Darren says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      The stealth jihadists learned from the best, the communist/progressives. They are following the same playbook, what’s worse they have mountains of petro dollars they can throw at things. You think they buy into institutions because they care about American education for instance? Just like how any organization George Soros funds has a different objective than the one stated, as does any islamic charity, civil rights group, or them buying into the education establishment. Even Fox News, has fell victim to this. A Saudi prince owns a rather large part of the parent corp of Fox news NewsCorp. Then if you factor in elected prostitutes accepting campaign contributions and bribe err lobbying money and the picture painted is that much worse.

      • particolor says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 5:22 pm

        Do those two words go together ?.. Islamic and Charity ??

        • Darren says

          Dec 21, 2014 at 12:29 pm

          True it is an oxymoron. Sadly they fool much of the west who thinks those organizations that claim to be charities are and are able to be 501c ones. As anyone on this site knows they are simply fronts, to either raise money for jihadists, or engage in stealth jihad. I’m preaching to the quire here though. Compared to many on this site I am but a Padawan anti jihadist. Some of the master Jedi’s on this site even speak the language.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    THIS IS JUST ONE INCIDENT OF STEALTH JIHAD EFFORTS BY CAIR & OTHERS.

    THEY GOT CAUGHT BUT THE WORK TO SUBVERT YOUNG MINDS IS CEASELESS..

    Exploiting “All religions are equivalent” fantasies of naïve educators, there is a continuing river of lies and pleading to get Islam put in a positive frame of reference in American schools.

    • particolor says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 4:53 am

      Winter in America is Cold !!
      Look on the Bright Side !!
      You will have Plenty to put in the Basement Furnace this Winter !!

  3. somehistory says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    I am so glad I have no children in school there and if I had children in school there, would immediately take them out and home school before that is made illegal.
    It is very difficult to read the copied text, but what portion is readable, it is clearly something not allowed by the Constitution as it is promoting a religion.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 6:32 pm

      My English composition in the last sentence of my posted comment is not the best, but I think it was adversely affected by reading the questions and statements in the lesson plan.

    • Ann Inquirer says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 6:51 pm

      It is not just “there.” Those books are everywhere in the US.

      • somehistory says

        Dec 19, 2014 at 7:05 pm

        Yes, I realize that. Holt,et al have been producers of school books forever everywhere. I was just kind of flabbergasted that they are so up front about it…so soon and will all the killing going on in the same religion. If I had kids in school…I would do what I did and take them out.

        • Darren says

          Dec 20, 2014 at 3:04 pm

          The problem is many parents are busy working just trying to make ends meet that they can’t take time to home school their children. Maybe some kind of Charter school or private school would help, but how many Americans hurting economically have that kind of money? Is it any wonder America despite investing more money per student than any other nation in the world finishes so poorly in world wide education? They are more interested in indoctrinating students than educating them, then when you add the system wanting to drug any child that doesn’t sit like a docile robot in class with power psychotropic drugs, it does make one fear for the next generation.

        • somehistory says

          Dec 20, 2014 at 4:50 pm

          Darren,
          I know how hard it can be…I was going through a lot at the time…working outside my home and teaching my kids at home…so I have been in the shoes of those you reference. I thought exhaustion would kill me before they graduated. Some parents saw what I was doing and wanted me to teach their kids too…and some took their kids out and taught them.
          Schools are not the learning environment they are touted as being…even as much as they once were. But esp now that islam is approved for indoctrination.

        • Darren says

          Dec 21, 2014 at 12:40 pm

          I am not a parent, but I can only imagine how tiring it must be especially after working all day. I agree the education system is very broken, which is sad because there are some very good teachers out there who do care and who do want to teach the next generation, but the cards are stacked against them. If they break the communist party line they even risk their jobs. You think with the resources this country has available we can easily have the best education system in the world.

          At this point in time though more money won’t solve the issue, we need to remove politics, agendas, and social experimenting and simply educate the kids. 1+1 is two and no western civilization isn’t evil. I also think children are given strong mind altering drugs like candy, and this is very harmful. I’ve read that much of hyperactivity has to do with the children’s diets more than anything. I of course am no medical professional, but I’ve read many reports by professionals who state a large number of children shouldn’t even be given these strong psychotropic drugs and that drugs should be reserved for the more extreme cases. Treat the problem not the symptoms.
          The fact you made such sacrifices to insure your children got a good education is admirable, and I am sure you will be well rewarded for your efforts.

        • somehistory says

          Dec 21, 2014 at 5:29 pm

          Thank you, Darren. I have been and continue to be.
          I now have a young daughter-in-law who is a teacher. She has much anxiety over her job requirements of the *common core* and the enforced lack of flexibility in teaching kids, many of whom are on drugs…of one kind or another. I believe that some of the hyperactivity comes from a lack of physical activity, in that recess and phys ed have been eliminated, and also, no windows in many of the class rooms…maybe no classes have windows anymore for young children. Being in a room for six to eight hours a day, five days a week, without a view of the outside world, much less actually going outside, can be, and is, detrimental to anyone, but especially to the young. Children were meant to run and play outside, to use up some of the energy they make and to see things in creation.
          I have much sympathy for the children and for the teachers who care about them.

        • Darren says

          Dec 22, 2014 at 1:43 pm

          I agree, sitting still in a room all day would make any child jittery. Also one of the negative aspects of the electronic age is many kids sit at home playing xbox or the computer instead of getting exercise, that is a good point you brought up. I am sure your daughter is not alone in feeling anxiety wanting to teach children but due to the system being unable to. I never knew recess and phys ed have been eliminated. I wonder if they are afraid of lawsuits.

          No wonder the kids can’t sit still, I had a hard enough time when I was a child and this was with recess and phys ed. I really wish we could reform the education system somehow, the next generation deserves it, and our country is doing a great dis service to them by not doing anything about this problem. The drugging of children is also an issue that needs to be addressed. It seems like society was much more healthy before everyone had a mental disorder and needed to take a pill. What did our ancestors and founders do before Prozac and Riddilin? I bet Mozart would have been deemed mentally ill by modern society and put on a drug. It really is out of hand. No windows even? It seems worse than even I thought, a shame, more proof that throwing more money at the education system won’t do a thing.

      • terry says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 11:54 am

        Anne Inquirer,

        What??

  4. anke says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:30 pm

    Thank you for doing this. Everyone has to know about the silent invasion of Islam influence
    everywhere. This is the destruction of our western society from within.
    Spread out the material to anyone……
    Thank you A…..

  5. mccode says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    The school district should include sentences such as the following:

    “Aisha was the 6 ____ old bride of Mohammed.”

    “Apostasy in Islam will result in your _____ being severed from your body”

    Muslims believe that _____ should be slain in according with the teachings of the Koran”

    You get the idea……

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 6:55 pm

      Like this, Monsieur McCode?

      The Holy Prophet Mohammed built a _________________ on the chest of Kinana and let it burn through his _______ to the grouind. This was done at the end of the siege of banu ___________ in order to find ouit where the ________ was hidden. Kinana was the treasurer of the banu.

      Happy Hannakuh and Merry ___________. It’s still ok to say Hannukah, I think. Unless that would offend the Moslems. Happy __________ and Merry ___________!

  6. Ayatrollah says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Why are the police looking into the video?

  7. Keith says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    What are the police looking into, the video or the lesson that is promoting Islam?

    From the sound of it, it looks as if they are looking into the video although I can see nothing wrong with it. there are no calls for beheading of non Christians, or violence against Muslims, just calls for the school system to treat ALL religions fairly.

    There again why should we be surprised, we see this all the time where promoters of Islam call for beheadings and violence against non muslims yet the police arrest the non muslims who speak out against Islam and its message, especially here in the UK.

    • particolor says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 4:59 am

      Do You think the Cops are trying to tell You Something ??

  8. Angemon says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Astute – it’s entirely possible that muhammad, a successful merchant, was astute enough to claim he was illiterate so he could claim his verses had a divine inspiration.

    Conducive – appeasing muslim demands is conducive to more and more demands from muslims, each one more oppressive to non-muslims than the previous.

    Erratic – the quran tells us that muhamma’d behaviour was erratic, since he didn’t follow what the quran mandated.

    Mosque – muhammad used a mosque as a barrack from where to plan how to fight those who refused to be oppressed by him.

    Pastoral – muhammad didn’t spread islam the same way a pastoral preacher would spread christianity. He fought non-muslims until they submited to islamic law, which degraded non-muslims’ lives so much that their only chance of living with dignity was to convert to islam.

    Quantitative – for the quantitative determination of how many people muhammad killed with his own hands and how many battles he fought in, one must study not only the quran but also other islamic sources.

    Recur – incidents where muhammad had people who criticized him killed recur in his biography.

    Requisite – warfare against non-muslims for the spread of islam is a requisite of all muslims.

    Zenith – killing and being killed in jihad is the zenith of every muslim’s life.

    • Edison says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 7:11 pm

      Great reply Angemon

      • quotha raven says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 9:18 am

        Angemon – Very well done. Just brill. Thank you. qr

      • Dayna says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 9:50 am

        That is the way the course should have been read. Great Job on the English lesson.

        • terry says

          Dec 20, 2014 at 11:58 am

          Angemon,

          I liked that!!

  9. Bezelel says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Wouldn’t it be nice IF, we could trust the proper authorities to do their job? Isn’t that how it’s gone this far?

  10. Isabella says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    Wow!
    This woman is admirable and I agree with what she said. It is very dangerous the infiltration of Islam in American schools. Jihad Watch it is a very serious matter, because mixing Islamic brainwashing with education is a real threat, the worst threat in our society.
    Mr. Spencer, do you have an article on all the threats that the American educational has faced in the last five years?. Ni indoctrination of our children at any cost.

    • Darren says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 3:16 pm

      God forbid you had a lesson even mentioning Christianity, the militant anti Christians would be calling a fatwa on the school and the teachers. I’m not even Christian, I’m agnostic but the war on Christianity is ridiculous. Christianity is a part of this nation and western civilization whether people like it or not. Why is there so much hate for an ideology that preaches love thy neighbor and pray for your enemy? Whether Jesus was the son of god isn’t the point, he very well could have been, his ideology and the way he lived his life was good and honorable and his teachings benefit humanity.

      The war against Christianity reminds me of how the Taliban tore down those Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. Some people want to remove everything having to do with Christianity completely, they are as dogmatic in their belief structure as the most devout member of the Taliban. What is to fear from a an extreme christian? What are they going to do pray for your soul to death or something? In my opinion if someone actually was extreme and tried to live their life just like Christ they would be a very positive influence on their community and those around them. Sorry for the rant, it’s just so hypocritical, what ever happened to separation of church/mosque and state? Ya we know they are simply taking that way out of context and using it as a pretext to try hurting Christianity because they are being mean and spiteful.

  11. Sarai says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    This may have something to do with it –
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istithmar_World

  12. Wellington says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    As an educator for a third of a century, at first at the high school level (3 years), and then at the college level (29 years), with a year as a graduate assistant in history thrown in for good measure, as soon as I read that Common Core methodology was behind this Bozo stuff (and I suspected such even before I read the article), then everything for me was crystal clear—-oh yeah, no ambiguity whatsoever.

    Common Core is an approach to education which is turgid, tendentious, unnecessarily complicated, stupid, unproductive and, what a surprise, rooted in a great deal of modern Western leftism. Educate yourself on Common Core and then this article will be understood all the more (how’s that for rhyme?).

    There are a lot of bad ideas out there floating around. One of them is that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. Another is that Common Core is a great way to educate the youth of America. It isn’t.

    Really, for all you regular and informed JW commenters out there, if you don’t already know about Common Core, make an effort to learn about it. It’s a negative. Oh yeah. Big time.

    • RonaldB says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 9:56 pm

      Just so, Wellington. And what is the core of Common Core? Why, that a central government should determine the curriculum standards and educational methodology for every state.

      The Common Core was probably produced in the standard academic manner: a committee of mediocre professors of education developed the standards, in line with the argot of the relevant journals. They then passed it around for comment by other educational professors, all of whom review each other’s books and articles, and all of whom covertly, and not so covertly, use their academic position to shut out any student who might have the inclination to think for himself.

      The scary part is not the neutral to favorable slant on Islam: it is the strong move to bring all the states into line and eliminate any competitive educational philosophy. In truth, I’d far rather have a favorable lesson on Islam in an environment where criticism is allowed, than to have the mind-numbing mediocrity of a Common Core that is truly common to all 50 states. There would be no dissent, no analysis, and certainly no incorrect thinking allowed.

      The process by which Common Core was developed is described here:
      http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/

      Note that there was no trial whatsoever to determine the effectiveness of the curriculum before it was released. This is a push for major collectivization of all public education in the country based on standards never given an actual field trial.

      • terry says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 12:21 pm

        Wellington and RonaldB,

        Thanks a lot for this eye opening information.

        Given the Common Core approach to education, how something like the above two pages about Islam, can be removed? What measures should be taken to prevent such material, serving as Da’awa for Islam, from sneaking into classrooms?

        • Wellington says

          Dec 20, 2014 at 2:14 pm

          Informed parents, terry, who are willing to challenge the educational establishment, are the best shot for this educational cancer being ended.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Dec 19, 2014 at 11:17 pm

      Common Core is than great educration way to treach childern. Religion of all type wplay than very important part in history and culture you people are just Islamophobia which will be the ruin of thjis nation.

      • Angemon says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 11:37 am

        Brian Hoff posted:

        “Religion of all type wplay than very important part in history and culture”

        No. Just… no. If that were the case then all areas of the world would have developed in a similar fashion around the same time. But that’s not how things went, was it? Some countries/nations/regions excelled and lead innovation and progress at certain points in history while others never got over barbarism on their own. For example, Europe, which has a overwhelming Judaic-Christian tradition, survived the Dark Ages created by the rise of islam and brought us the Enlightenment. The US, who also have a overwhelming Judaic-Christian tradition, rose up to prominence and leadership on several fields, from science to culture. Muslim majority countries, like Saudi Arabia, either are lucky enough to be sitting on top of natural resources or they’re doomed to wade in poverty until the end of days. Because of religion.

        Now, I’d say that a religion that inspires it followers to improve their conditions and advance science, art, and culture is much more important and relevant than a science that orders its followers to fight others and bring them down to their level until the whole world is covered in a swamp of theocratic totalitarianism.

        • Wellington says

          Dec 20, 2014 at 2:16 pm

          Well said, Angemon.

    • dlbrand says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 2:11 am

      “Educate yourself on Common Core and then this article will be understood all the more (how’s that for rhyme?).”

      Indeed, Well, you are a poet, though you failed to know it.

  13. Sarai says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    Or this –
    http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=633777&ticker=STT&previousCapId=91031&previousTitle=News%20Corp.

  14. St. Croix says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    Arrrgh! This is TERRIBLE! Normalizing Islam to the children to prepare them to convert or accept dhimmi status. I note for the definitions they choose neutral words, not any kind of Islamic-tinged words per se–to further get it across that Islam is just a normal part of life, just like anything else. Propaganda city. And this is allowed but Christian universities have to take down crosses?

    Cultural content in the curriculum?? This is totally religious!

    • dlbrand says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 2:15 am

      ” Normalizing Islam to the children to prepare them to convert or accept dhimmi status.”

      Yup. In brief.

  15. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    Well then, my grandson should be way ahead of the game when he gets to high school, because I am giving him an in-depth education in Islam.

    Of course, his mom and dad think it’s totally unnecessary and grandma thinks it’s just a terrible idea. Grandma has ordered me to STOP on several occasions to which I reply “I WON’T” – so there you have it.

    The grandson and I are presently going over Muhammad’s time in Mecca. Pretty boring for him at this point, because we haven’t gotten to any action yet, but I figure if he can learn thousands of things about Pokémon, he can learn something about the enemy he is going to have to deal with for the rest of his life.

    I am emphasizing “uswa hasana” at the moment, which I believe is the key to understanding Islam.

  16. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    Our children will not benefit by learning such bland vocabulary words as “astute, conducive, erratic, pastoral, quantitative, recur, requisite, zenith”. Let’s have more practical words, like “taqqiya, rajam, naskh, jizya, milk al-yamin” to live in the world of the future under our Islamic overlor– er, I mean, in a world of multicultural diversity.

  17. Dave J says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    Outrageous! This is a blatant example of the invasion of our country by the jihadists and their ME financiers. It is our civic duty to expose, denounce and reverse such obvious attempts at brain washing our own children by government Muslim sympathizers.

  18. Jay Boo says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    They should teach Islam in school.
    Vocabulary words: Beheading, Honor Kill your daughter at school day, false prophet, etc.

    Children
    When Muhammad came up without for a plausible answer of why he worshiped partners of Allah, how did he claim the devil made him do it (BLANK)?

    Answer: The Satanic Verses

  19. Salah says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    This is why I keep saying: the whole system is corrupt. All of it. Both parties, the MSM, our academics, elites, poll centers, universities, campuses, judiciary, etc.
    You don’t beat a dead horse; it’s DEAD.
    I’ll say it again; You (the free peoples of the West) have 3 solutions:
    1- A massive popular uprising (to peaceably remove the traitors from office.)
    2- A bloody civil war (which you may or may not win.)
    3- A total and humiliating surrender.

    It’s still time for solution #1…I hope.

    • dlbrand says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 2:21 am

      Amen, Salah.

      ‘ agree with you on all points stated above, except your final one: I believe we are down to options above, 2 and 3.

  20. MR says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    Just tell the kids that there’s no Christmas in the Islamic world that Mohammad preached about. That’ll very quickly kill the kids’ interest in it.

  21. bicky says

    Dec 19, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    Well done Diane !!!

  22. Colin says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 6:02 am

    Call the police? A true story from England. A television company secretly filmed a mosque speaker advocating extreme punishments on shariah lines. The local police decided to investigate the TV company for islamophobia.

    • cs says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:26 am

      It was the open mosque TV thing? The police end up apologizing, ridiculous.

      • particolor says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 6:33 am

        What next ? 5 Years no BAIL nor Parole for being a Cheeky Infidel ??

  23. cs says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 6:25 am

    We should not be close minded and bigots, what a shame, I think we could use the concept for good purpose.
    we could include nice words on this vocabulary, thus enriching it, such as:
    Rape
    Violence
    Killing
    Conversion by force
    Forced marriage
    hypocrisy
    Self serving
    Delusion
    Conquest
    Invasion
    Slavery
    Bigotry
    Slandering
    War

    and much more.

    • particolor says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:39 am

      Thanks for the Short List !!

  24. Laura says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 6:49 am

    Does the school in question have a majority muslim student roll?

    • particolor says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:55 am

      It probably hasn’t got any ?? They are Softening You up !!

  25. Kepha says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 8:01 am

    All the more reason for my thinking that the ACLU is just a pack of nihilists who’ll fight tooth and nail against the nurturer of American liberty while fawning over its real enemies. Had this involved describing a self consciously Christian culture, they’d have been screaming bloody murder and hauling people into court.

    It’s also why, working in the world of American public education, I often think of myself as a professional swindler of the young rather than as a teacher. Sure, I can drop in snippets of truth, but otherwise I work inside a great roaring factory that produces boredom, immaturity, crime, and lying so-called “narratives”.I sometimes wonder if Horace Mann, John Dewey, Antonio Gramsci, and Muhammad all lie fairly close to each other in the same pit of you-know-where.

    • Darren says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 4:03 pm

      The ACLU cares as much about civil rights as CAIR cares about interfaith dialog. Just like George Soros organizations who do the opposite of their stated intent, the ACLU isn’t what they seem to be.

  26. Richie says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 8:55 am

    The history books are worse, often saturated with fiction painting Muslims as victims and as the original occupants of the lands they now occupy

    • Darren says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 4:07 pm

      Every time someone mentions the crusades to paint Christianity and western civilization in a negative light, simply tell them the battle of Tours happened in 732 AD over three and a half centuries before the first crusade happened in 1096AD. The muslim armies got defeated by the French men Charles Martel as they were driving into southern Europe. So you had centuries of muslim conquest and expansion before the first crusade even happened. Something no history book in grade school or high school mentions, I wonder why? We need to educate not indoctrinate.

  27. BC says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 11:27 am

    Can anybody tell me how to read these pages? I tried zooming and it is still illegible

    • Davegreybeard says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 1:54 pm

      I just left clicked on the page and it reappeared in a larger, more legible size.

  28. Jae M says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    They need to take legal action against the whoever put that paper together, whether State, School or Teacher. This is outrageous.

  29. Edward says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    I haven’t read any of the examples of the Common Core project, but I can tell that majority of the commentators reject its worth which is a good indication that it doesn’t resonate with the individual’s innate wisdom.

    People in their right mind would not succumb to subliminal messages. Reception of subliminal crafted text will actually have a hypnotic effect. Case in point, the Koran is obviously is written in such a format that we are now seeing the devastating effect it has on the Islamic adherents….causing great atrocities without any hint of remorse, In a sense no evidence of guilt (which is a natural attribute of a human). Sans this God given attribute one would be regarded as a sub-human (savages).

    Reading all the commentators posts gives a generalized idea of how the Common Core based workbooks are designed……the concept (like filling the blanks), target words (ill suggestions) and phrases that will serve to re-mold a young person’s mind that will cause aberrations in their objecting/sub-objective thinking.
    Sadly, that young persons will eventually loose their dignity and autonomous attributes of their free-thinking processes……in lockstep with a central source of convictions.

    Subliminal – “existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual” – Dictionary.com

    God help us to overcome the effects incurred by these meddlesome and maligned backroom planners of our societies!

    [Alpha-Omega]

    • Edward says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      Edited version of the last sentence of my above post –

      God help us to overcome the effects incurred by these meddlesome and maligned backroom planners of our societies who may be oblivious or at least un-expectant of the introduction of the Common Core program.

  30. Rich says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    As a retired educator, these complaints are nonsense. Try looking at the NYS global history syllabus. It includes learning about all major religions….. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the social philosophy of Confucius. NYS schools have been reviewing these core belief systems for over 15 years…. Before that they used a Global Studies Syllabus which reviewed the same thing.

    This item under complain was done in a high school class. A good teacher would allow for objections and lead objections into a class discussion on the subject. Would you object if the vocabulary words used hindu terms? buddhist? I think not….

    • Jay Boo says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 5:48 pm

      Did you actually watch the video.
      Those LEADING questions where not about vocabulary but to sanitize the woeful stench of Islam.

      • quotha raven says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 6:06 pm

        JayBoo – You got that exactly right. Rich appears to be comatose or at best oblivious to the difference between propaganda and a vocabulary lesson. Quotha

    • quotha raven says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 5:53 pm

      “…Would you object if the vocabulary words used hindu terms? buddhist? I think not….”

      Rich –

      I certainly would not object; the religions you mention, and I will add Christianity and Judaism and just about any other religion on the planet, do not have at their core numerous and repeated orders from Allah and his spokesman, Mohammed, to dominate, tax and/or behead infidels, apostates, maligners of the “religion of peace” et al. Fact is, Islam is the only religion extant to embrace and carry out the vilest crimes humans have ever known. Pick up a Qur’an and try to focus. The ambitious goals of Islam are daily demonstrated and repeated over and over throughout the world, and you, Rich, seem numb as a hake about stealth jihad, which is a reality. Your thumb is in an inappropriate place, Sir.

      • particolor says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 pm

        Paul Revere shouted….”MAHAMMAD IS COMING !!”

      • quotha raven says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 6:38 pm

        Rich et al:

        Actually, in the heat of the e-moment, Rich, I misspoke. In fact, I WOULD object to inclusion in any state curriculum any religious context like the one presented in the video and being discussed here. I don’t believe even survey courses about religion belong in public schools; indeed, this is a fairly recent addition to public school curriculums. I believe deeply in the separation of Church and State as prescribed by the Constitution, i.e. no establishment of a State religion, but NOT in the current popular, intolerant culture which has sought for years to remove the ten commandments from in courtrooms or Xmas trees at Xmas, in front yards of public buildings. They want to obliterate any trace or suggestion of our Judeo-Christian ethic, tradition, culture or religion. ACLU and Madeline Murray, or whatever her name was, are extremists with an extreme, leftist agenda wrapped up in animosity towards the liberty and freedom afforded by the Constitution. Yes. Exactly the opposite of how they try to cast themselves. That a vocabulary lesson is brazenly fashioned into this Islamist propaganda and dictated by Federal Government entities to be fed to American children is appalling and deeply worrying.

        • quotha raven says

          Dec 20, 2014 at 6:42 pm

          …Make that “curricula”, just for the halibut…qr

        • romney says

          Dec 21, 2014 at 3:01 pm

          It is all up to “enough”. I have had enough, getting enough patriots to fight back in EVERY way, enough action against the enemy (we know who they are), enough anger toward the enemies, enough love of freedom, enough determination toward removing those who bring death, murder, rape, theft, lying, domination abuse to America. Next time one of “them” kills one of us we should make that a 20 to 1 revenge. There are millions more of us than them. Are you just going to take it. The government (all levels), media, even churches are becoming our enemies. Look up all the non muslim denominations who are caving to islam. Go to ISNA to confirm or contact you favorite denomination almost any one of them.

    • jay says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:19 pm

      I’m glad you’re retired then because these weren’t social or historical lessons or were even written in a way they could be used as objective educational material, they’re propaganda.

    • Wellington says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:23 pm

      Perhaps, Rich, you should ponder what Bertrand Russell, a real liberal guy and an atheist, said about Islam almost a century ago in his The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. Russell in that work asserted that Islam is the only religion which is totalitarian in structure and ideology and Russell in that tome of his and in subsequent works by him went on to compare Islam to fascism and Marxism, two other totalitarian ideologies, except secular ones instead of a spiritual one.

      You see, Islam is not just another religion and when it is in any manner taught as such, and know full well that in many instances it is given leeway far more than a religion like Christianity is, this in and of itself is a deception. Islam is inimical to liberty and equality under the law. In Islamic doctrine, any Muslim who converts to another religion is to be killed. In Islamic doctrine, any criticism of Islam, the Koran or Mohammed is to be met with severe punishment or death. In Islamic doctrine, non-Muslims are the equivalent of human waste and thus are not deserving of equal status with Muslims in Islamic law. No school of Islamic theology to the present day has repudiated these doctrines, not the Hanafi school, the Hanbali, the Shafi——-none.

      I have to wonder if you knew any of this, Rich. My guess is that you didn’t. But if you did, then I would appreciate a response from you why, pursuant to modern educational guidelines in America, Islam is taught as just another religion. Reconsider, Rich. That is if you’re able.

      • terry says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 10:50 pm

        “In Islamic doctrine, non-Muslims are the equivalent of human waste and thus are not deserving of equal status with Muslims in Islamic law.”

        I wish all westerners had the same level of knowledge that you have about Islam, especially our leaders and governments.

        As graphic and ugly the above stated fact about Islam’s view of non-Muslims, the”Kuffar”, may seem to be, it is so true, in the absolute sense, something that almost all non-Muslims, living in the west, are not yet, even, able to start to comprehend.

        Why it seems that there no people in positions of power, in western governments, academia, media and other influential agencies, who have the same level of knowledge about Islam as you, Wellington, Robert Spencer, IQ Al Rassooli, David Wood and many others, who also comment on this site and have, at least, this same level of that knowledge?

    • Alissa says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:37 pm

      As a retired educator, these complaints are completely valid. She is telling the truth. I strongly urge parents everywhere demand from the school division a FULL reveal of ALL curriculum taught in schools throughout the division. Listen to her. Believe her. This is happening. Parents must get organized. This is a stealth jihad initiative and it’s successful because parents are not on the ball.

    • Ice Star says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 7:10 pm

      Why use religion or religion inventors as examples?

      The statements could be as follows

      Jane was astute when barging for jeans at the Barter Store.

      Thomas Kinkade was famous for painting pastoral settings.

      The drunk driver was erratic on the freeway.

      A mosque is a place where Muslims worship.

      Bringing in leading examples is completely unnecessary.

      • quotha raven says

        Dec 20, 2014 at 7:22 pm

        Ice – Now that I’ve calmed down a bit from my first response to Rich, I concur 100% with your perfectly acceptable sentences to demonstrate or test vocab words with neutral, objective affect.
        But…could we just change the last one to: mosque – a building where Moslems advance jihad.
        LOL. Of course, you’re absolutely right in what you say. Quotha

        • particolor says

          Dec 21, 2014 at 12:58 am

          All that I saw down at the Mosque was a Bearded Clown in a Nightie Spewing Hatred of Infidels at a Mass of Brain Dead Bearded Elmer Fudd’s ??

    • John says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 2:06 pm

      but you, particolor would object if everything or fill-in word was about Jesus Christ !

  31. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Thanks Darren, excellent point!

    Charles Martel stopped the Muslim hordes from driving North, out of subjugated Spain, over 300 years BEFORE the first Crusade.

    I shall mention this fact to my grandson, at some point in our discussions.

    It may also be of benefit to note that for 600 years or so, Jews and Christians largely “owned” the Middle East from Turkey to Spain and from Germany to Egypt. But within a hundred years of the coming of Muhammad, all of the Middle East and North Africa were under the bitter subjugation of Islam.

    (Suggestions for more accurately or elegantly restating the state of world affairs before the rise of Islam are welcome.)

    • Wellington says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm

      Arguably just about the greatest tragedy for the northern part of the African continent, Davegreybeard, which you alluded to, was the transformation of that region from a Christian-dominated area to a Muslim one. Many of the finest Christian minds in the first half millennium of Christianity came from Africa, not the least being Tertullian and Augustine. In fact, North Africa led the way for Christianity respecting the fusion of Greek philosophy with Christian theology. I have often wondered if the Mediterranean all around had remained Christian, how much better off not only North Africa but the Syrian/Palestine/Asia Minor region would be today. A great opportunity lost, courtesy of Islam. Well, so many opportunities have been lost courtesy of Islam, now haven’t they?

      Hope you and those you hold most dear are doing well. Merry Christmas to you and those you love and a Happy New Year too.

      • Davegreybeard says

        Dec 21, 2014 at 10:49 pm

        Merry Christmas to you and yours also, Wellington.

        I always enjoy your insightful and well written posts.

  32. jay says

    Dec 20, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    Whoa, what? Please tell me these are an elaborate hoax. What is going on in the south and bible belt? You’d think more liberal areas would have these kinds of problems but it’s always in these traditionally red and evangelical areas.

    • quotha raven says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 6:54 pm

      Jay – It takes a while to sink in, but I believe this is the sort of thing that can happen when the Fed Gummint thugs assume superiority and legal dominance over states in the matter of education…or anything else. Federal control makes matters such as propaganda do-able in a very efficient way, insuring that the message bends as many young minds as possible. No, it’s not a wild hare or a joke; it is atrocious and just another example of life in post-Constitutional USA, where bloated, cancerous Government is destroying us.

    • Wellington says

      Dec 20, 2014 at 8:12 pm

      Well, jay, and this is contrary to what is regularly put out there, the “traditionally red and evangelical areas” of America are actually, I would argue, way ahead of “more liberal areas” respecting what it will take to preserve America as a sane and strong leader in the world for the cause of freedom; a cause, I submit, which, in importance, is second to none in our time on this tiny globe that we all inhabit.

      Modern liberals in America and throughout the West have really fallen down on the job over the past half century or so. Actually, modern Western liberalism has, with each passing decade, taken on more and more of a deeply disturbing totalitarian tone—–you know, self-righteousness aplenty, refusal to consider alternative opinions, demonization of those who disagree with the “received wisdom,” hate-speech nonsense, and a rank sentimentalism respecting sympathy for most anything non-Western (which is nothing more than an updated version of “going native”) since the West is the exception to the multicultural rule that all cultures are equal. Yes, Western Civilization, which produced greater results in more spheres than any other civilization in history is, per the modern liberal Western mindset, the one civilization that you can excoriate with impunity and with no consequences for doing so. Ah yes, I say welcome to the Age of Nonsense (the guy presently occupying the Oval Office is a wonderful representative here of this Age’s “thinking”).

      As I opined here at JW a few years ago, I would far, far rather have the people of West Virginia for the next decade, some 1.5-2 million in number, deciding American policy, both domestic and foreign (including educational policy), than 1.5-2 million people residing in Manhattan. No contest I would argue. But I have zero doubt that in places like the Upper Left Side in Manhattan I would be a very lonely and reviled creature (perhpas not even a safe creature) for publicly saying so. Which, I might add, would tend to prove my overall point.

  33. TTT says

    Dec 21, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    A group of volunteers and subject matter experts conducted reviews on 32 Social Studies textbooks under consideration in the 120p School districts identifying over 1500 errors, many related to Pro-Islamic/anti-Christian and anti-Judaism themes.

    To learn more visit http://www.truthintexastextbooks.com

    Hundreds of changes were made by publishers because parents and others got involved.

    You can email us at truthintexastextbooks@gmail.com to learn more.

  34. Bruce Hachey says

    Dec 21, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    I am from Canada and I have watching things like this for a while .It seems that those in authority either have no conscience or they just do not or will not concede to the idea that islam is [like old Rome ] being attacked from within. I am making enough noise here in Canada about it so I appreciate what you people are doing in the U.S. Time to stop all this garbage.now.God bless .

  35. John says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    If it was about Jesus Christ there would be more complaints———–from the teachers, school officials & no doubt the government for sure

  36. Gene1357 says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 8:14 am

    Let us promote “Uncommon Core”
    Definition of common includes “coarse; vulgar; low”.
    I prefer that US States promote the exceptional “Uncommon; especially in a superior way”.

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