New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks…

Believe it or not, this article seems to be fairly even handed and not another example of the media pushing an agenda. I did however, find  it somewhat whimsical when

Glenn Branch, the Deputy Director at the National Center for Science Education stated; “In everyday conversation, a theory is a hunch or guess,””That’s not how scientists use it. For scientists, a theory is a systematic explanation for a range of natural phenomena.” 

 

A new Florida state law allows parents, and any residents, to challenge the use of textbooks and instructional materials they find objectionable via an independent hearing.

Keith Flaugh is a retired IBM executive living in Naples, Fla., and a man with a mission. He describes it as “getting the school boards to recognize … the garbage that’s in our textbooks.”

Flaugh helped found Florida Citizens’ Alliance, a conservative group that fought unsuccessfully to stop Florida from signing on to Common Core educational standards.

More recently, the group has turned its attention to the books being used in Florida’s schools. A new state law, developed and pushed through by Flaugh’s group, allows parents, and any residents, to challenge the use of textbooks and instructional materials they find objectionable via an independent hearing.

Flaugh finds many objections with the books used by Florida students. Two years ago, members of the alliance did what he calls a “deep dive” into 60 textbooks.

“We found them to be full of political indoctrination, religious indoctrination, revisionist history and distorting our founding values and principles, even a significant quantity of pornography,” he says.

The pornography, Flaugh says, was in literature and novels such as Angela’s Ashes, A Clockwork Orange and books by author Toni Morrison, which were in school libraries or on summer reading lists.

Flaugh says he’s just as concerned about how textbooks describe U.S. history and our form of government. “I spent over 20 hours with a book called ‘United States Government,'” he says.

He found more than 80 places where he believes the textbook was wrong or showed bias, beginning with the cover. Its subtitle is “Our Democracy.”

“We’re not a democracy, we’re a constitutional republic,” Flaugh says.

He believes many textbooks downplay the importance of individual liberties and promote a reliance on federal authority, and what he calls “a nanny state mentality.”

Members of Florida Citizens’ Alliance have other concerns, including how some textbooks discuss Islam. Others take issue with science textbooks and how they deal with two topics in particular: evolution and climate change.

Flaugh says the law, which was signed by the governor on June 26, is intended to make sure scientific theories are presented in a balanced way.

“There will be people out there that argue that creationism versus Darwinism are facts. They’re both theories,” he says.

Science educators say that’s a familiar argument and one that fundamentally misunderstands the nature of a scientific theory.

“In everyday conversation, a theory is a hunch or guess,” says Glenn Branch, with the National Center for Science Education. “That’s not how scientists use it. For scientists, a theory is a systematic explanation for a range of natural phenomena.”

Cell theory, gravitational theory, and evolutionary theory are all evidence-based, well-tested explanations of aspects of the natural world.

Another member of Florida Citizens’ Alliance, David Bolduc, is most concerned about protecting the U.S. Constitution. But he also sees bias in how textbooks deal with science, including climate change.

“It seems to me it’s very slanted in one direction,” Bolduc says. “That man is at fault, and that it’s definitely happening and that it’s real. You know the Al Gore lines.” Bolduc also believes parents should be able to challenge how textbooks deal with evolution.

In Florida and nationally, it’s those last two topics — climate change and evolution — that have sparked the greatest interest. Branch says the bill clearly was formed with those issues in mind.

“In affidavits submitted to the legislature in support of the bill, they said, ‘we complained that they were teaching evolution. We complained that they were teaching climate change and they wouldn’t listen to us. So that’s why we need this new law,'” he says.

Under the law, school districts will still have the final say. Even so, some worry the law will have a chilling effect.

Brandon Haught, a high school environmental science teacher and a member of Florida Citizens for Science, says “a science teacher might feel like, ‘argh, I’ve got all this heat coming down on all of us teachers. Maybe we should just not teach it as strongly, maybe just briefly cover it and move on.'”

Florida’s Department of Education is developing guidelines for school districts on how to comply with the law. The state school board association says one thing is clear — more challenges to the textbooks adopted by Florida schools are likely.

They Just Don’t Get It..At The Expense of Lives

I read the “Unbiased” Florida Today Editorial Board’s OUR VIEW in Sunday’s paper;

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/22/brevard-must-show-parkland-students-arent-actors-its-time-we-act-our-view/358288002/

As predicted, the board slammed, (they like labels) the majority of Americans that do not agree with them..  (..i.e. ” those opposed to gun control..conspiracy theorists..and..spread[ing] lies, [i.e. liars]..”). Well, at least the paper is still the same progressive rag it has consistently been through the years. But since they targeted the conservative, 2nd amendment citizen, the constitutionalist and threw the first stone, then, lets look at the facts;.

The Obama Admistration’s Project Hope, allowed criminal behavior to go unreported so Grant money would be funneled to the Broward County school district. Why? So  the ratio(s) of prison inmates would be changed.

The FBI ignored 2 separate warnings about killer Nikolas Cruz.

There are varying numbers according to how many times Mr Cruz was investigate. I have read/heard 23-44. Fox2 News offers a sampling of the “government system” failing the students of MSD.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/nikolas-cruz-missed-warnings

Gun Free Zones in Schools was passed by the Progressive, Democrat congress in 1990.

 

The responsibiltiy for the failure to protect the students and faculty of Mayjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and the many other mass shootings in Gun Free Zones, rests squarlely on the shoulders of the big government, anti-constitution, anti-gun liberals of our nation. It rests on the backs of the MSM(main stream media), that choooses to ignore the facts;

 

 

FLORIDA TODAY BURIES TRUTH OF THE DEATH OF 7 YEAR OLD GIRL..

Again, due to the pure hatred for President Trump, Florida Today, through inclusion of  parent company’s USA TODAY article, has again decided to bury facts, and mislead the public. The very public that Florida Today claims to fully inform,

Notice the headline;

“Family of migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody disputes agency’s account of death”

First, the child and her father were Illegal Aliens. They chose to make a long and perilous journey, that included walking across desert. As a father, I feel for the father of this young lady. I can’t imagine the pain.

Trying to imagine his loss does not however negate some facts;

You do not become severely dehydrated to the point of seizures in an 11 hour period, without mitigating factors such as (lack of food and water) before arriving at the detention facility.

I found the statement by Ruben Garcia of Annunciation House, to be puzzling at best;..“She had not suffered from a lack of water or food prior to approaching the border,”  When did the illegal aliens begin “approaching the boarder”? Was it when they took their first steps thousands of miles ago. Was “approaching the border’, 100 yards, 100 miles or 1000 miles out ?

As a Physician Assistant, I can assure you that a child who is in the custody of US authorities for only 11 hours, does not suffer severe dehydration to the point of seizures in those 11 hours! 

It boils down to this..

“Once again, we are begging parents to not put themselves or their children at risk attempting to enter illegally. Please present yourselves at a port of entry and seek to enter legally and safely. We cannot stress enough the dangers posed by traveling long distances, in crowded transportation, or in the natural elements through remote desert areas without food, water and other supplies.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/15/family-migrant-girl-dispute-border-patrols-account-death/2326221002/

 

 

JUST FOOTBALL…

Mr. Goodell,

For a very long time until recently, my family and I have enjoyed the NFL. 

We, like many other fans and their families, have found your support of Colin Kaepernick’s political views disturbing. Kaepernick is welcome to be “brave” and bash America, but don’t do it on my time.

I TUNE IN TO WATCH FOOTBALL NOT POLITICAL OPINION!  

We don’t care what you think about how great he is; we don’t care how honorable you think he is !  We don’t tune in to a football game to be told/shown how rotten you think our country is.   

This is not why we tune in! We tune in for one thing ONLY; a football game!

Except for the Super Bowl, our national anthem isn’t normally televised. Now, because of your anti-America actions, every time one of your players takes a knee or raises a fist, by God you are making sure we’re gonna see it!

Whether it’s a Kaepernick phony display, slogans on fields and jerseys, or you denying others the same “right”, Americans are voting with their feet. We will continue to not patronize your agenda driven broadcast and revel in the NFL’s bottom line decimation.

Your anti-America denial of other requests that do not fit into your agenda is very visible to us all, like your refutation to honor the 5 officers murdered in Houston.

We Patriots revel that the NFL, under your leadership is hemorrhaging money, with viewership down 14% and continuing to plummet.

AMERICA IS VOTING WITH IT’S FEET!!!

C. Hamilton boone

A 14 YEAR OLD AND THE DEEP STATE LOCK DOWN AMERICA.

Trump tested positive for C19.


6’ Social distancing, lockdown of America and destruction of the economy is the product of Laura Glass, a 14 year old HS student computer simulation. Put numbers in getting desired results out.
Laura and her father, Robert J. Glass, who is void of medical, immunological or epidemiological training, co-authored “Targeting Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza”(2006).

The American Institute Economic Research lays the insanity bare.

The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea