I just receievd this in an email - it shouldn't surprise me, with the "controlled" system we have in place today, but somehow it does surprise me. I cannot believe to what lengths the "system" has gone to re-educate/control the populus. Read on -

"This for us American's, but all are welcome...

My daughter is in the 4th grade, and she left her American history book at home. The book starts in the 1950's, post Korean War. It makes no mention of any war, to include our independence before this, to include the Korean War. It's all about the great economy and industry and of America for the next several chapters. When it gets to the 60's and 70's, no mention of the Vietnam War, or even the equal rights movement.

It talks about Martin Luther King, Jr., and his ideology of equal rights and what not, but not the back story, or why he was even doing it. It was like blacks were treated equally from the beginning. There is no mention during these time periods of the 1950's to 1980's of the Cold War. It talks about the space race, and that's it. When it gets to computers, it talks of Steve Job's being the inventor of the first Apple Computer, and basically the inventor of all computers, and how Apple is so great.

It speaks of Windows in the opposite tone, and how it lead to uncertain economic times, and is mentioned heavily as being part of the 2008 economic crisis.

So I continue going through this book, and get to the part of where these two towers should be and how it all happened and the start of the war on terrorism. Apparently, the destruction of the Trade Center Towers was an unfortunate accident, and makes no mention of terrorism or anything, other than "There is much controversy over the accidental destruction of the World Trade Centers." It ends there. NOTHING!!!

So it side steps the first part of the WoT in Afghanistan, and goes straight to 2003 with the invasion of Iraq, and how it was a political war, but not part of the WoT. Any kind of further shock this book could present is gone at this point. For the next 4 chapters, it goes on about how the War in Iraq was a poltical war, designed to remove an extremist government, of course some parts on oil, and how the war brought democracy to Iraq and the country is living the life of peace and freedom and AWESOMENESS!!!

We get to the 2008, and economic crisis...what caused the economic crisis? Banks? no. Poor lending standards? no. I'll take RESIDENTIAL FOR $200? no. Windows computers, Tobacco and Alcohol, illegal drugs, and the war in Iraq.
Windows Computers = unstable, unpredictable computers costed businesses billions in revenue to maintain them because windows used dirty marketing tactics to bully Apple computers in to a hole and pushed their crappy computers on to everyone.


Tobacco and Alcohol = because dying livers and lung cancers consume the federal government's resources
Illegal Drugs = because they make people less productive (agreeable) and not have jobs (not true...completely)
War in Iraq = because more people died in Iraq than any other war...wait...what? no seriously, WTF OVER? this book makes no mention of any war before this? And compared to other wars the US has been, Iraq wasn't that bad.

so what did I learn?

The PC System has seriously consumed the schools. Its so PC it makes me vomit blood...that, or everything I learned as far as American history has been a complete lie... "

Too bad he didn't post the name of the history book his daughter was reading.

4th grade is too young to be learning/reading regular history. Shouldn't they be learning geography first or at least about Christopher Columbus, the Mayflower, and the Pilgrims. I can't remember what I learned in grade school and when I learned it, but my kids went to Waldorf up until 8th Grade, and they learned mythology, saints, geography, the explorers, local history, etc.

This is how it should be taught in elementary school -

Discover Waldorf Education: The Teaching of History –

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The history curriculum generally follows these lines:

Grade One: Fairy Tales. “History” is not a separate subject.

Grade Two: Legends and stories of saints. “History” is not a separate subject.

Grade Three: Stories of the Jewish Bible. “History” is not a separate subject.

Grade Four: Norse mythology. History is taught as part of an introduction to the cultural geography of the child’s local surroundings.

Grade Five: Ancient History. The peoples of India, Persia, Egypt, Babylonia and Greece: their myths, their monuments and their everyday life.

Grade Six: Roman History, from Aeneas to the decline of the Roman Empire and the crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor.

Grade Seven: The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The Age of Exploration.

Grade Eight: From the Reformation to the Age of Revolution. American history. Twentieth Century history.

(After Waldorf, my youngest daughter went to the local elementary school, and I always read her History and English books to her, so I could give her a balanced perspective and correct any mis-information.)

LOL -

Guess the laugh is on me for poor grammer.

"Populace", not populus - unless we're talking about schooling woody plants, which we 'aint.

Don't want to post any names or links, but my daughter who is now a freshman at a state university just sent me a link to one of her art professors Vimeo page of videos - pure pornography. So I said to my daughter - who told you this is her, are you sure this is your professor, don't tell anybody about it or you'll get her and you in trouble.

Then my daughter told me - the professor herself told the class that it's her and that's her 'other job'. So we're paying for the degradation of society and demoralization of our children.

That Waldorf School curriculum is fantastically politically incorrect. I kept expecting a section called: "Sub Saharan Africans Actually Invented Everything Including the Internet." But alas, it never came. What a relief.

Feel free to e-mail me the link to the prof's vimeo page. I promise I won't do anything with it other than gaze upon its mediocrity. Totally understand if you want to keep things confidential. You piqued my interest though!

On second thought, maybe I was hasty to call it 'pure pornography'. It was really the professor lady doing various sexual acts and simulating having sex with a male with an attached apparatus on that was a replica of his you-know-what. And another video of a stuffed cloth male dummy with a stuffed cloth you-know-what and she was doing things to him and simulating having sex with him and his cloth you-know-what. So maybe that was 'art' and it wasn't pornography at all. Maybe I'm a prude, but I was shocked that her teacher would make that kind of video.

Just got an email from my daughter about the professor -

"She says she's a "performance artist". It has to do with modern art."

So I guess I'm just behind the times.

I'd have to see it do judge. Art is subjective though, what one considers worthy another will view as trash.
My art loving friend posted this the other day. Take note of the $10,000-$15,000 estimate.

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We had a little discussion about that. I offered to send him some of my 6 year old's work, lol. He said he'd be glad to have it, how much should I ask for it d'ya think?

I think we're being played. I was at the modern art museum in Chicago and they had an exhibit of Jeffrey Coons and people were just laughing. A basketball submerged in a fish tank? And the funniest part are the accompaying plaques: "This demonstrates a static fluidity..."

A dot on a colored background, a few stripes. I went to a Lichtenstein exhibit at the Art Institute last year--now that was interesting. He had a Warholian Pop Art period (probably his best-known with the comic strip style) but other periods with interesting images. Reminded me of Klee...

And Piscasso was amazing this spring but even he had stuff on the walls that I questioned inclusion in the exhibit. Scribbled drawings that looked like they took a minute to complete. Oh well, he was so versatile that I was still totally blown away.

My friend was serious! He got so offended when people called that post out, lol. I told him my 6 year old was better with her gluing technique, he called me ignorant *snort*. That's when I offered to send him pieces of her work and he accepted. He said he doesn't discriminate with art. Obviously!