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Thread ID: 18602 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2005-06-09
2005-06-09 18:11 | User Profile
Philly schools to require African history class
PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia (AP) -- City high school students will be required to take a class in African and African American history to graduate, a move that education experts believe is unique in the nation.
The requirement in the 185,000-student district, which is about two-thirds black, begins with September's freshman class, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday.
The yearlong course covers subjects including classical African civilizations, civil rights and black nationalism, said Gregory Thornton, the district's chief academic officer. The other social studies requirements are American history, geography and world history.
Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, an advocacy group for big city school districts, said Philadelphia appeared to be in the forefront with such a requirement.
"Courses on the subjects are offered as electives in other cities," he said.
Some parents opposed requiring the course, including Miriam Foltz, president of the Home and School Association at Baldi Middle School.
"There are other races in this city," said Foltz, who is white. "There are other cultures that will be very offended by this. How can you just mandate a course like this?"
While acknowledging it would be better to have courses adequately reflecting all cultures, district officials said African and African American history had been neglected too long.
"We have a whole continent that has been absent from most of our textbooks," said Paul Vallas, the district's chief executive officer.
[url="http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/06/09/african.history.ap/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/06/09/african.history.ap/index.html[/url]
2005-06-09 22:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Philly schools to require African history class
PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia (AP) -- City high school students will be required to take a class in [B][I]African and African American history to graduate[/I][/B], a move that education experts believe is unique in the nation.
The requirement in the 185,000-student district, which is about two-thirds black, begins with September's freshman class, The Philadelphia [I]Inquirer [/I] reported Thursday.[/QUOTE]I suspect fluency in Swahili, or, at the very least, Ebonics, will be next. One of the great minds of Temple University will be the desired expert. Get ready for black intellectual primacy. I wll not buy the [I]Inquirer[/I], but will read it grudgingly. I await their editorial position.
2005-06-09 22:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE]The other social studies requirements are American history, geography and world history.[/QUOTE] You mean they actually still teach these subjects?
2005-06-10 00:41 | User Profile
African history: the shortest subject on Earth.
2005-06-10 01:04 | User Profile
Well that's better then Jewish history, wanna bet that's next?, because that would be the longest subject in the world.....they would problably try to take it back all the way back to Adam and Eve and it would last till the last Goy dies on Earth....... what a joke :jester:
2005-06-10 01:55 | User Profile
But are they going to teach it in Spanish?
2005-06-10 12:56 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]African history: the shortest subject on Earth.[/QUOTE]
There is an endless supply of fiction for the subject.
2005-06-10 13:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=BlueBonnet]But are they going to teach it in Spanish?[/QUOTE]
A lo mejor, pero los negros deberán eseñar en Ebonics.
2005-06-10 13:53 | User Profile
[url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5270[/url]
Philadelphia schools to require White history class
by Hugo Drax
City high school students will be required to take a class in European and European American history to graduate, a move that education experts believe is unique in the nation. The requirement in the 185,000-student district, which is about two-thirds White, begins with September's freshman class, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday. The year-long course covers subjects including classical European civilizations, civil rights and White nationalism, said Gregory Thornton, the district's chief academic officer. The other social studies requirements are American history, geography and world history.
Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, an advocacy group for big city school districts, said Philadelphia appeared to be in the forefront with such a requirement."Courses on the subjects are offered as electives in other cities," he said.
Some parents opposed requiring the course, including Miriam Foltz, president of the Home and School Association at Baldi Middle School."There are other races in this city," said Foltz, who is white. "There are other cultures that will be very offended by this. How can you just mandate a course like this?" While acknowledging it would be better to have courses adequately reflecting all cultures, district officials said European and European American history had been neglected too long. "We have a whole continent that has been absent from most of our textbooks," said Paul Vallas, the district's chief executive officer.
WHAT? Sorry, it's not true.
The above story was a REAL story on CNN that had all the occasions of African and black replaced with the words European and White.
Imgine the outrage, the furor, the firestorm. Fox and CNN would be on this 24/7 with every black faced activist and Hebrew lawyer they could drag up, sreaming bloody murder from the rooftops.
But, read the REAL story at CNN. No one will even blink at the real story. Typical Americans, in their TV induced stupors will sit in front of their TV sets and wave their little (Chinese-made) American flags and cheer "Yay America! Yay Bush!".
The world I was born into 45 years ago no longer exists.
2005-06-10 15:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]A lo mejor, pero los negros deberán eseñar en Ebonics.[/QUOTE]
Lollllllllllll good one, and something else......I wonder if they will be told that the Jews were the main reason why they became slaves.
Five to one that no part of this will be shown.
2005-06-10 16:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]A lo mejor, pero los negros deberán eseñar en Ebonics.[/QUOTE] :thumbsup: