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scaeagles 09-10-2009 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer (Post 298347)
Problem (or not) is, by the time they reach that age your views will be so ingrained in them that they will think the other views are wrong and they won't have the tools to be able to understand that people do have different views because they won't be exposed to anyone with different views.

To the complete contrary!

I was completely immersed in certain philosophies until I went to college. I certainly do NOT share much in common with my dad.

And guiding them through different views does expose them to the fact that there are other views. We don't pretend there aren't any.

scaeagles 09-10-2009 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 298346)
I'm sure Leo's fine. I'm just trying to stoke the flames of his inner liberal fireplace.
:D

That used to be MBC's job. I feel so....so.....rejected.

Ghoulish Delight 09-10-2009 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 298346)
I'm sure Leo's fine. I'm just trying to stoke the flames of his inner liberal fireplace.
:D

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Originally Posted by scaeagles (Post 298354)
That used to be MBC's job. I feel so....so.....rejected.

You're mistaken, MBC was trying to get some flaming liberal inside of you. Subtle, but substantial, difference.

flippyshark 09-10-2009 03:15 PM

All well and good, but, what I can't get my head around is, even before they changed the lesson plan, was it really THAT BAD? It seemed thoroughly innocuous to me, just boilerplate elementary school civics. (Heck, I was assigned to write a letter to President Nixon, along with the rest of my classmates, back in the fist grade. Pretty similar stuff - tell the president what you like best about the country, what you want to see happen in the future - I'm sure we all wrote that we wanted a longer recess and Slurpees in the school cafeteria.) If I've understood correctly, the contentious line, which was changed, was "write a letter to yourself about how you might help the president," and that even in the original version, this, in context with the surrounding material, clearly meant "help the president realize his goal of increasing the number of college graduates." Now, really, what the F is wrong with that?

Motorboat Cruiser 09-10-2009 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 298360)
You're mistaken, MBC was trying to get some flaming liberal inside of you. Subtle, but substantial, difference.

Precisely.

Motorboat Cruiser 09-10-2009 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 298362)
All well and good, but, what I can't get my head around is, even before they changed the lesson plan, was it really THAT BAD? It seemed thoroughly innocuous to me, just boilerplate elementary school civics. (Heck, I was assigned to write a letter to President Nixon, along with the rest of my classmates, back in the fist grade. Pretty similar stuff - tell the president what you like best about the country, what you want to see happen in the future - I'm sure we all wrote that we wanted a longer recess and Slurpees in the school cafeteria.) If I've understood correctly, the contentious line, which was changed, was "write a letter to yourself about how you might help the president," and that even in the original version, this, in context with the surrounding material, clearly meant "help the president realize his goal of increasing the number of college graduates." Now, really, what the F is wrong with that?

Absolutely nothing, which is what makes this outrage so silly.

BarTopDancer 09-10-2009 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 298360)
You're mistaken, MBC was trying to get some flaming liberal inside of you. Subtle, but substantial, difference.

From a discussion on right-wing paranoia politics to toasters.

Only on LoT.

sleepyjeff 09-11-2009 11:06 AM

Leo, I am with you in spirit....


Carry on:)

Gemini Cricket 09-12-2009 01:37 PM

Yeah! We're #37!

Betty 09-12-2009 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 298543)

Shameful!


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