From Free Republic: Class Syllabus "Geography" Teacher Jay Bennish. This is geography? Here's some fun things to do:
1. Count the times "political" or "social" come up
2. Find the right-wingers in this list:
· NPR (National Public Radio) 1340 AM · The New York Times
· The Wall Street Journal
· The News Hour (PBS) channel 6
· The BBC News (PBS) channel 12
· www.npr.org
· www.pbs.org
· www.guerrillanews.com
· www.tompain.org
· www.cato.org
· www.heritage.org
· www.indymedia.org
· www.freespeech.org
· www.newamericancentury.org
· www.brook.edu
· www.zman.org
3. Figure out how "Students will not be permitted to insult or belittle others in the class, respect is paramount, tolerance is also extremely important" and "Disregard for these rules will not be tolerated"
4. Try and find an instance of "geography" in there
5. Go find a political science syllabus, and see what you'd need to change to make this fit
Posted by Macabee at March 2, 2006 08:35 PM | TrackBackMy favorite syllabus features: students will learn spatial reasoning and films will be used for course assignments.
Films? I went to the wrong school.
Lousy text books and atlases...
Posted by: Portia at March 2, 2006 10:05 PM...solve for X
Posted by: Portia's other other brother at March 3, 2006 12:26 AMYou can go by "Peter," Peter. We'll put it in the About section that you're the "other, other" brother, and the better looking one...shhh. ;-)
Posted by: Portia at March 3, 2006 12:54 AMhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loos
Any true American who watches the above, free video will recognize the fact that Bush committed 9/11 the same as his grandfather's client, Adolf Hitler(Google "Prescott Thyssen Auschwitz"), committed the Reichstag Fire.
Inarguably, Bush is Hitler-redux.
Schoolteacher Jay Bennish is simply putting forward thoughts that any who claim spiritual descent from the Jeffersonian Whig Founders of the United States of America should have been realizing right after they heard GHW Bush's public statement confirming his "inability" to recall his whereabouts upon hearing of President Kennedy's assassination: W's only "qualification" for office.
Death for Treason
Posted by: Will Jones at March 3, 2006 05:53 AMplease tell me you don't have children.
Posted by: MacStansbury at March 3, 2006 08:50 AMAh. A former student of Mr. Bennish has posted.
Posted by: Dee (portia'smom) at March 3, 2006 08:52 AMIntolerance will not be tolerated.
Posted by: Captoe at March 3, 2006 09:17 AMIt's amazing that people like that claim to be brave, and then never put their real email address or links to their own blog...or their real name...
Posted by: Peter at March 3, 2006 09:59 AMWil Jones is Jimmy Carter's Alias...
This smegma posing as a Wil Jones is proof positive that ignorance, whist not solely the domain of the left, certainly has firm root there.
He can't even get his facts straight about the fire for which he claims to have knowledge about-but that further proves that he is of the left for things like facts rarely get in the way of a good yarn.
Posted by: Washington at March 3, 2006 12:21 PMThe left also believe "Facts" are the true terrorists. They distort their "truths", lay waste to their delusions, and slaughter their lies by the wayside.
Posted by: Peter at March 3, 2006 02:56 PMWe realy need more teachers like Jay Bennish, He did what many can not do. He made them think, take up a cause (regardless of the cause) and be a part of something.
What have you done to stimulate children lately???
yeah, C, he showed us that we're knee-deep in wackos who are dangerously close to teaching our kids incredibly insane things that are so ludicrous as to be only marginally believable.
he's shown us that we have to watch teachers like a hawk.
Posted by: MacStansbury at March 7, 2006 12:42 PMC:
Recently, I've engaged in tutoring a younger classmate of mine in which I expressed concern for his lack of knowledge in the subject at hand. I then asked him to think about continuing his education at a different school and posed the idea of him getting extensive ammounts of help. Albeit, this was not politically motivated, however encouraging students to think for themselves, and not telling them what or how to think, is the ideal goal. The best way to learn is to do it yourself!
Teachers like this (which I have encountered many) do not encourage independant thought, but rather force-feed ideologies into the minds of developing young people.
Case in point: I had an 11th grade US history teacher that asked "Why were the Japanese the only 'enemy aliens' put into internment camps?", to which I actually did a class project showing that some 115000 (it's been four years since I did the project, so don't quote me on that one) Italians and Germans were also interned, however, since a large majority of them were on the East coast, it was not readily reported.
Suffice to say, the teacher's question was not open ended. It was posed to make my fellow students think that the US is in the business of imprisonment.
Posted by: Peter at March 7, 2006 12:53 PM