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New school social studies books have a different definition for the 2nd amendment

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#1 ·
I was going over the constitution with my 8th graders recently and I got to the People's Bill of Rights. I started to read what the 2nd amendment stood for. I immediately got p**sed. I couldn't believe my eyes. They omitted a word. Guess which word? They wrote in that communist book that our second amendment was "The right of the people to keep arms". They forgot the word bear. I checked further down to see if it was just one error but it wasn't. History is being rewritten our rights are being rewritten without us knowing it. Our kids are being taught distorted revised versions of our rights as Americans. Has anyone else come across this?
 
#9 ·
I used to think that the Bill of Rights granted rights, but after further study, and time spent on this site, I now know the truth.

While I disagree with the "God given" bit, and I fail to see how rights can be pre-existing, I also recognise that the Founding Fathers declared the existence of rights. The Bill of Rights recognises those rights and implies their prior existence.

If I were to draft a Bill of Rights for Australia, I would explicity state the rights as, while I think the the US Bill of Rights is a great document, it's not quite strong enough.
 
#11 ·
You should print a corrected version and hand each one out to the students with frames and all. As a memory lesson you could even require a memorization requirement where they have to go up in front of the class and site the correct version. I remember having to recite the Gettysburg Address as a child to pass the 7th or 8th grade.
 
#13 ·
Well I can't say I'm shocked you'd encounter something like that in a new textbook. Who is the publisher and the author? I'll bet if you checked em out you'd fine out that have plenty of reason to have a bias opinion. I'm also wondering how they changed the wording or description for other items in 'The Peoples Bill of Rights.' Do they ever refer to the USA as The Peoples Republic of The United States? The best way to compare just how bad things have gotten would be to compare a 20 year old textbook to the one your using today, and I'll be the subtle and not so subtle differences would shock you.
 
#16 ·
While I agree with this being ridiculous, please tell me this is not the first time you, as a history teacher, have noticed BS history in textbooks....

Do you teach that Columbus discovered America?

Do you teach the proper history of the slave trade where rival black tribes brought the slaves to the whites who barely left the beach?

Textbooks on history have always been full on nonsense. I realized this at a young age and even caught some trouble a time or two for calling it when I saw it.
 
#22 ·
Isn't it the state board of education that selects textbooks?

http://www.isbe.net/

http://www.isbe.net/news/2004/newsclips/040206.htm


"Q: Another issue that perennially surfaces in the legislature is gun control in general and a possible ban on assault rifles in specific. Downstaters have a much different view of the Second Amendment than in Chicago, where handguns are already banned. Is there a middle ground?

A: I have mixed emotions about that whole issue. There was an incident in Chicago where this guy shot a burglar in his house, and they charged him with possession of a firearm or handgun.

However, guns have taken so many lives. We're not in the old Wild West where one carried firearms. If you do not have the pistol, tempers would not play up as much, and one would not feel they could resolve the problem by pulling out a gun. And too many kids have been killed because they found a gun in the house. But then you look at that other incident I just told you about and say maybe the guy in Chicago should have a gun. Or maybe he should've shot the burglar with a rifle. Assault weapons should be banned. I don't see why anyone would have to have an assault weapon to go hunting. "
 
#25 ·
Assault weapons should be banned. I don't see why anyone would have to have an assault weapon to go hunting. "[/B]
Unfortunately, this is the same view espoused by many rifle-owning, liberal democrat hunters in my area....

....they take positions that are against themselves. Only liberal morons can manage that.
 
#23 ·
I was going over the constitution with my 8th graders recently and I got to the People's Bill of Rights.----

They wrote in that communist book that our second amendment was "The right of the people to keep arms". They forgot the word bear. I checked further down to see if it was just one error but it wasn't. History is being rewritten our rights are being rewritten without us knowing it. Our kids are being taught distorted revised versions of our rights as Americans. Has anyone else come across this?
Yet people think I'm a nutter when I try to tell them that our education system has been taken over by lefties and commies.
 
#30 ·
Actually Texas is usually the driving factor behind what textbooks the rest of the states buy. Texas is the single largest buyer of textbooks so what they buy ends up being the cheapest so other states follow suit. Before you declare Texas a spin free zone you better go look at some textbooks! Also, wasn't there a recent (i.e. yesterday) headline about a Texas classroom forcing their students to memorize and say the Mexico pledge of allegiance?
 
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That's nice for your family Mike, but you're still a tax-paying voter, and at least theoretically, a potential employer of kids being educated in your local district. You still need to keep aware of how your tax dollars are being used or mis-used, and the quality of education being bought with them.
 
#48 ·
If you're paying taxes, you have as much right to be concerned as anyone, people tend to forget that. The trick to dealing with the "your kids are grown, this doesn't affect YOU" crowd is to make sure you attend things like school board meetings with like-minded friends, coworkers, or church family who DO have kids in the local system. Also keep track of performance and vote accordingly. I've had occasion to vote for a home-schooling parent that was running for office (but still checked out other information about him - being resource-minded is fine, hug a few trees, just don't be in bed with socialists!)
 
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