As more and more information comes out about the radical left-wing educational scheme known as Common Core, the more is revealed about it’s hatred of America’s history and values.
Now, a new report has surfaced to show that Common Core also hates Israel and promotes terrorism against the Jewish state. WND reports:
A Boston University professor has defended to WND his creation of a Common Core-compliant lesson plan that uses role-playing workshops to teach students to sympathize with Hamas, create a Palestinian state and divide the city of Jerusalem.
Professor Carl Hobert’s “Whose Jerusalem?” project has been lauded by those at the pinnacle of the education establishment as an important work that will, in the words of Boston University School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman, “help students acquire the skills they need” in conflict resolution “to be successful in the 21st century.”
But the role-playing exercises have also come under fire recently from pro-Israel groups. One group, Boston-based Americans for Peace and Tolerance headed by Charles Jacobs, released a 27-minute documentary film last month that derides Hobert’s project as an “attempt to indoctrinate” rather than educate.
Indoctrination rather than education is standard fare for the left when it comes to the education of the young. So, we should not be surprised that this attack on Israel’s sovereignty is thinly disguised as “learning.” WND provides more details:
The role-playing games where students pretend to represent Arab, Israeli or American interests have been used in hundreds of high schools across America, Hobert told WND. Last year, the program was added to the Common Core-approved list of curricula and received Race to the Top funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The workshop is presented in many schools as part of a “global education” initiative, which is a strong focus of Common Core-compliant curricula.
The “global citizen” approach to teaching social studies has been adopted not only in public schools but many private and religious schools as well.
Hobert admits on camera in the documentary that his mission in designing “Whose Jerusalem?” goes beyond educating students. He hopes to turn them into activists.
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/common-core-program-teaches-kids-to-hate-israel-video
Common Core Program Teaches Kids to Hate Israel [Video]
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Revmitchell, May 22, 2015.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Has he complained about the Right wing scheme, to white-wash history, that's been so effectively carried out for decades?
Supporting Israel is a Christian value. It's not an American value. There are a whole lot more Americans who probably don't care about Israel than do.
Would it be okay to teach that we should be pro-Israel?
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Where should my love for the Palestinians be? I don't have a fight with the Palestinians. They are just on the wrong side of God. But so are the Israeli's.
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David Coleman, the Most Influential Education Figure You've Never Heard Of
"...Coleman, a Jewish man....is perhaps best known as the architect of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, meant to bring divergent state learning goals into alignment.....The experience of conducting a deep exegesis at age 13 framed Coleman’s thinking about education. “The idea that kids can do more than we think they can is one of Judaism’s most beautiful contributions,” he said.....These ideas, Sherman speculated, stem from Coleman’s religious background. “He grew up in a family that extremely prioritized the value and importance of a deep, broad education,” Sherman said. “Those Jewish values toward education have a lot to do with his belief system: Every child should be a smart thinker, a deep thinker, someone who’s analytical and probing.” Coleman also believes that religious texts have a place in the public school curriculum."
Wonder which religion would 'have it's place' in the program? Judaism would suit you just fine, wouldn't it Rev? -
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So which religious texts have found their place in Common Core?
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But I'll be gentlemanly and answer your question, even if you won't show the courtesy to do the same: If it were my call, if I were to include any religious texts, I'd include ALL of them. -
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So I will assume given what you just said that they also do likewise for folks in the opposite position. As such, it shouldn't be seen as a problem.
It's actually a good teaching method to cause people to think about things from another POV.
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