re: D. C. 6th grade homework assignment. Let's hear the responses.

Odds this union teacher is fired?

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Equally ridiculous assertions.

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Was my point, and I don't live in Jersey, think way South, and know no teachers who teach like this representation.

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Are you feeling okay? I think that's the first time I've seen you post and not refer to yourself in the third person.

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I don't know if I should be flattered that you read my posts on the OT or insulted that you've never noticed that I've never posted in 3rd person on the Poliboard.

My political opinions are that worthless?

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I thought Hitler used an attack on German soil as a justification to go to war against people who had nothing to do with said attack. Is that not true?

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Well, no. He made up an attack - Operation Canned Goods - that he then used as justification to attack Poland.

A better (although not exact) comparison would be LBJ and the Vietnam War - the facts of the Gulf of Tonkin incident remain hotly disputed and, even if it was an attack, could probably have been resolved diplomatically - and there was no loss of life on the U.S. side of the inicident.

Bush, on the other hand, was relying on an actual terrorist attack in taking action in Afghanistan. The fact that Americans inferred that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 is not the fault of the Bush Administration, although I agree they were not emphatic enough in separating the 2 operations.

Hussein was a UN Resolution defier, funded terrorists, invaded neighbors on multiple occasions - I was fine with him getting got. The "how" is always the problem.

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I thought Hitler used an attack on German soil as a justification to go to war against people who had nothing to do with said attack. Is that not true?

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I want to say no, wasn't his excuse that the Polish were oppressing Germans IN Poland?

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I don't know if I should be flattered that you read my posts on the OT or insulted that you've never noticed that I've never posted in 3rd person on the Poliboard.

My political opinions are that worthless?

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He's clearly on mobile and can't see Scruffy's sig quote.

Not a surprise, considering the source.

The more that Bush is demonized and vilified in the Zeitgeist of today's USA, the easier it is to blame Bush for all time to come.

The easier it is to Blame Bush, the easier it is to prop up your own Democrat POTUS because you can explain away ALL of his deficiencies by Blaming Bush.

It is VERY important to the Left to keep Demon Evil Bad Bush prominent in our Zeitgeist now and, if possible, forever. This political weapon the Left will wield with fervor. They will never willingly surrender this weapon.

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You think this is the only example of this?

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there are probably teachers across the country that do stupid things similarly to this

there are teachers that break the law, such as sleeping with underage students

but I also think that it's a matter of social media, 24 hour news cycle, etc and not an epidemic or a sign that our country is failing

so I don't overreact like a baby when stories like this come out

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I'm not.

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Is that a 6th grade assignment?

Is it targeted to JrHigh students?

If not, then WTF is your point?

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but on one hand I'm kind of impressed at the critical thinking that an exercise like this would cause 6th graders to employ. We never had these kinds of free form and conversation-inducing exercises until I was in college or grad school. Just wish the example was not retarded.

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You can't separate the exercise from the indoctrination since the assignment was meant to reinforce the indoctrination not question it. And just what was the "activity" in class the next day? Do you think the students were encouraged to challenge the teacher's definitive statement that Bush abused his power?