Colorado school board wingnuts want to teach/preach "Patriotism."

[Cyrano]

This is from today's NY Times and it's something only a fascist could love. The goal of a right wing school board is to turn students into mindless zombies who will obey authority and love capitalism. And also love a world run by the Koch Brothers. (My highlights in 2nd paragragraph.)

RVADA, Colo. — A new conservative school board majority here in the Denver suburbs recently proposed a curriculum-review committee to promote patriotism, respect for authority and free enterprise and to guard against educational materials that “encourage or condone civil disorder.” In response, hundreds of students, teachers and parents gave the board their own lesson in civil disobedience.

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Hundreds of students from Jefferson County, Colo., were outside Arvada West High School to protest a proposed review committee that would discourage civil disorder. The teachers’ union, whose members forced two high schools to close Friday by calling in sick, has been in continual conflict with the new board; the board, in turn, has drawn praise from Americans for Prosperity-Colorado, a conservative group affiliated with the Koch family foundations. In April, Dustin Zvonek, the group’s director, wrote in an op-ed that the board’s election was an “exciting and hopeful moment for the county and the school district.”

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But on Tuesday, those allegations were more than enough to draw hundreds of students into the sun. They waved signs declaring, “It’s world history, not white history,” and talked about Cesar Chavez and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leaders of the walkout urged others to stay out of the streets and not to curse, and sympathetic parents brought poster board, magic markers and bottles of water.

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Almost from the outset, the three conservative newcomers to the five-person board clashed with the two others, and a steady stream of 3-to-2 votes came to represent the sharp divisions on the board and in the community.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/us/in-colorado-a-student-counterprotest-to-an-anti-protest-curriculum.html

[RKP5637]

1. AKA Hitler's Youth! n/t

[Cyrano]

5. That was my first reaction

Forturnately, there's a lot of pushback from the teachers, students and other sane people who aren't willing to fall into goose step with the school board.

[riversedge]

2. So, the Labor movement, Voting rights for women, civil disobedience

in the early 1900's--the fight for child labor laws, etc etc would be whitewashed over! whow, just whow.

We would be back to the Great Wars--the marches up the hills, memorizing General's names, etc. etc. whow!!

[hobbit709]

3. "First God made idiots. That was for practice. Then He made School Boards"-Mark Twain.

[Cyrano]

4. I don't know if Mark Twain could have envisioned this

A school board whose only goal is brainwashing students to be obedient followers of the plutocrats who rule them.