SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio charter school has apologized after a teacher asked students in an eighth grade American history class to list the positive and negative aspects of slavery. The Great Hearts Monte Vista teacher who distributed the worksheet titled “The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View” was placed on leave and the school said it would audit the textbook associated with the lesson, said Aaron Kindel, the superintendent of Great Hearts Texas, which operates 28 public charter schools in Texas and Arizona. “To be clear, there is no debate about slavery. It is immoral and a crime against humanity,” Kindel said in a statement posted Thursday on the Great Hearts Facebook page. He said the school’s headmaster plans to explain the mistake to the history class. Scott Overland, a spokesman for Pearson, which published the textbook, said the company didn’t create and doesn’t endorse the worksheet assigned to the students, KENS-TV reported . “We do not support the point of view represented in the worksheet and strongly condemn the implication that there was any positive aspect to slavery,” Overland said. A parent of one of the students in the class posted the worksheet Wednesday on Facebook. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro drew attention to the issue on Thursday when the Democrat tweeted that the worksheet was “absolutely unacceptable.” “Asking students to complete such an assignment challenges the reality that slavery was utterly dehumanizing,” Castro said in a statement. He also called on the charter school network to review its history curriculum. https://apnews.com/95a731ccf60341c49d3db65c07fc1bed
The amusing part is that the worksheet is part of the Common Core standards -- which are pushed by liberals. In this particular situation the lesson worksheet is associated with a new Common Core approved textbook published by the largest textbook company, Pearson. The intent of Common Core when it comes to history is for student not to remember history (names, dates, wars, presidents, etc.) but to look at both sides of contentious historical issues and debate them. This worksheet is part of the curriculum distributed directly from the Common Core Foundation (http://www.corestandards.org/) but this is never mentioned in the article.
Facts are liberals cryptonite All they care about is a sensationalized headline to spoon feed their sheep.
Of course, blame the liberals and ignore the truth Scott Overland, a spokesman for Pearson, which published the textbook, said the company didn’t create and doesn’t endorse the worksheet assigned to the students, KENS-TV reported . Make a racist worksheet that had nothing to do with the textbook, a part of history that would have been taught anyway and the racist Texas Con would have made a racist worksheet whatever the standards were and then blame it on the liberals. Also https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brow...ore-how-conservatives-gave-rise-to-obamacore/
This is hilarious, supporters of Trump, the biggest liar known to man who lies about everything and anything - from his networth to crowds at his inaugration are boasting about 'facts'. And AP News is sensationalized from the same turds who quote Breitbart and GatewayPundit all the time. Low IQ dumb Cons and their projection is at epic proportions.
Leftists crying about a thought exercise. No surprise. It’s too difficult for them. Too busy reaching for tissues. Pussies.
The entire series of worksheets ("Balanced View" series) come directly from the Common Core Foundation (http://www.corestandards.org/). The worksheets are typically Common Core exercises associated with chapters in text books published by Pearson (which are approved by the Common Core Foundation). So yes, Pearson did not publish the worksheet they published the text book. The Common Core Foundation directly published the worksheet based on a chapter in the text book. However the bottom line still is that your deliberate ignorance and misdirection on this thread is appalling.
It is even worse - Leftists crying about a thought exercise that their own Common Core Foundation published and pushed into the K-12 education system.
So? You think the racist Texas Con would not have found other ways to insert his 'slavery is good' viewpoint without the common core standard? The deliberate deflection to defend a fellow racist is noted, blaming standards that conservatives pushed until they found it too 'liberal' because any education is liberal in the low intellect world is your ilk's problem. Don't pretend common core is the reason for your side's racism.
Yes, common core forced the Texas Con to sing the praises of slavery, without the Common Core, racism would have simply died away. You cons are always good for a laugh with your pathetic arguments.