assignment asks 6th graders to compare Bush to Hitler

[platoonDaddy]

Only in the nations capitol, how friggin sad!


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/10/dc-public-schools-homework-assignment-compare-bush/

[JBecker 72]

Get them young and they're yours for life.

[BBossman]

My understanding is that this assignment was not for history class or even social studies, but for English class.

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[Eurodriver]

Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson late Wednesday tweeted, “No DCPS curriculum says to make these comparisons in any way. A deeply apologetic teacher used poor judgment & will apologize to students.”


Poor judgment?!? What on earth is that lady talking about?

Poor judgment is stepping out in front of traffic when it's a little too close. How can anyone who is not part of some agenda sit down and say "Okay, now we are going to compare Hitler with President George W. Bush."?

I'll bet hard currency that if that teacher had the exact same lesson plans and reading assignments but it was about Barack Obama she would not have come to the same Venn-Diagramming conclusion for her lesson.

[Spurholder]

Well, bad as it was...at least it wasn't a lap dance. :)

[Caeser25]

I had a hs English teacher that thought our English class was a classical literature class.

[docsherm]

A more realistic look would be between Hitler and the current "leader". If you have read " Mein Kampf" you can see very similar tactics and ideals......but that is asuming that the teacher in DC could read.....

[Ick]

Clearly this teacher is in the wrong job.

She should apply for an immediate transfer to a McDonalds for a $20/hour minimum wage position. She should also get free healthcare and 30 days mandatory annual paid vacation time.

I bet she thinks that is the way things should work.

[Mauser KAR98K]

Get them young and they're yours for life.

This!

[brickboy240]

Hitler and his national socialist movement has MUCH more in common with Obama than either Bush.

[Honu]

would have been good if someone said OK compare to bush very little now our current president WOW its scary how close they are

[Shao]

A more realistic look would be between Hitler and the current "leader". If you have read " Mein Kampf" you can see very similar tactics and ideals......but that is asuming that the teacher in DC could read.....


I came in there to post just that... Wrong president. Should have been Obama. But that wouldn't be PC, now would it?

[docsherm]

I came in there to post just that... Wrong president. Should have been Obama. But that wouldn't be PC, now would it?

Absolutely not........

[Abraham]

If you can: Home School

[Moose-Knuckle]

A more realistic look would be between Hitler and the current "leader". If you have read " Mein Kampf" you can see very similar tactics and ideals......but that is asuming that the teacher in DC could read.....

X-ring right here.

Compare Adolf's Mein Kampf with Barry's Dreams of My Father . . . he even has the same effect on crowds during public speaking engagments.

[platoonDaddy]

My final curtain is in free fall and I wonder what my great grandchildren will read about my generation. How friggin sad!

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson responded to the controversy late Wednesday on Twitter, saying no curriculum intended to make the comparison “in any way” and that the district and unidentified teacher are “deeply apologetic” about the matter. Henderson said the teacher has been ordered to apologize to the class.

“No DCPS curriculum says 2 make these comparisons in any way,” Henderson wrote. “Teacher used poor judgment & will apologize.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/11/sixth-grade-school-assignment-ask-students-to-compare-bush-to-hitler/

[Denali]

A more realistic look would be between Hitler and the current "leader". If you have read " Mein Kampf" you can see very similar tactics and ideals......but that is asuming that the teacher in DC could read.....

Checkmate...

[MorphCross]

If you can: Home School

I'm a product of Home Schooling, latter nine years were spent following daily lesson plans. I would also participate in activities with other home schooled children in my area. My dad was a public high school teacher (freshmen physical science). It was a mutual decision after seeing the education one of my older sisters had received in middle school. Then again my dad's thoughts may have also been slanted by teaching at a school with a "reputation," one of which was it's own on-site daycare (not for the teachers children).

[montanadave]

X-ring right here.

Compare Adolf's Mein Kampf with Barry's Dreams of My Father . . . he even has the same effect on crowds during public speaking engagments.

Personally, I found Dubya's public speaking absolutely mesmerizing. In that "I just can't seem to look away" kind of way. :laugh:

[thopkins22]

Personally, I found Dubya's public speaking absolutely mesmerizing. In that "I just can't seem to look away" kind of way. :laugh:

At least he pressed on when he couldn't find the right word as opposed to saying "ummm" a million times, or doing nothing but scanning directly from his stage left prompter to his stage right prompter.

Obama is not a good public speaker. Nowhere near in Hitler's league. Hitler tapes are played in public speaking classes. Obama and Bush tapes will be too...but for different reasons.

Anyone who remarks that Obama is well spoken is simply acknowledging a pre-existing racial bias or is simply in love with his stated policies.

As John Mackey found out though, it's bad form to point out that Obamacare is fascism.

[MountainRaven]

Comparing and contrasting world leaders is clearly a horrible, horrible thing.

Up next: Parent complains after student asked to compare and contrast JFK with Vladimir Putin. Or Genghis Khan with Tony Blair. Or Nero with Obama.

So horrible. It's just poison in the veins of these kids, this compare/contrast business. It should be banned. For the good of the children.

[uffdaphil]

Did I miss the contrast part?

[Koshinn]

Hm let's see, to compare:
Leaders of a nation
White
Male
Started leadership period in peace, ended in war
Political parties have red as primary color

Contrast:
Hitler was a great speaker
Hitler successfully invaded more than two countries
Hitler was a mass murderer

[Sensei]

Hm let's see, to compare:
Leaders of a nation
White
Male
Started leadership period in peace, ended in war
Political parties have red as primary color

Contrast:
Hitler was a great speaker
Hitler successfully invaded more than two countries
Hitler was a mass murderer

You missed their important similarity: both are socialists at heart.

You also missed their greatests difference: Hitler believed in German superiority and national greatness; Obama works to undermine American Exceptionalism.

In otherwords, one was a national socialist, the other is an international socialist.

[SteyrAUG]

Comparing and contrasting world leaders is clearly a horrible, horrible thing.

Up next: Parent complains after student asked to compare and contrast JFK with Vladimir Putin. Or Genghis Khan with Tony Blair. Or Nero with Obama.

So horrible. It's just poison in the veins of these kids, this compare/contrast business. It should be banned. For the good of the children.

I think you know very well this wasn't an exercise in compare and contrast so much as indoctrination designed to suggest Bush was very similar to Hitler. If we were reading about schools in DC doing a similar exercise such as comparing Obama to Nero the school would probably get investigated by Eric Holder, the racist teacher would be fired and their property vandalized and the school would likely be burned down in the ensuing riots.

Then of course you have the fundamental problem that the children involved know virtually nothing factual or accurate about either Adolf Hitler or George Bush other than Hitler killed 100 million Jews and George Bush crashed planes into the WTC.

If any kid from the class could tell me anything about the Weimar Republic, The Treaty of Versailles, The Patriot Act or actions of Al Quida prior to 2001 then I'd be more than willing to accept the compare and contrast exercise as a form of education.

Might as well compare Joseph Stalin to gerbils for all they will benefit in terms of actual education.

[montanadave]

Hitler was the better painter but Bush, in my opinion, selects more interesting subject material and employs a more personal, interpretive technique.