The United States ranks 17 out of 40 in education, according to a recent global study by Pearson, an education firm. Other studies rank U.S. students at 25 out of 34 in math and science, while another ranks U.S. students in first place — in self esteem.
So it should come as no surprise that the battle over the future lies in state and local school boards, and leading the charge into ignorance and stupidity is the faith-based GOP.
Take, for example, Elois Zeanah, President of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women, Board Member of the Republican Women of Tuscaloosa County, and a former Mayor and City Council Member from Thousand Oaks, California.
At last week’s meeting of the Wetumka, Alabama Tea Party, Zeanah attacked President Barack Obama, comparing him to Hitler, and painting a — false — dystopian image of the future, if “Common Core,” a standardized education policy, is allowed to be adopted and fully implemented.
Note that Common Core was introduced in 2009 by the National Governors Association Center — not the Obama administration — but why should facts (like the correct title of George Orwell’s classic, 1984,) matter?
“Social conservative commentators have leveled harsh attacks against Common Core and now are working to convince lawmakers in the forty-five states which have adopted the standards to blocks its implementation,” writes Brian Tashman of Right Wing Watch today:
During a speech at the Wetumpka Tea Party, Elois Zeanah of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women compared the adoption of Common Core to the indoctrination of children in Nazi Germany, with President Obama teaching children and imposing an “anti-Christian, anti-capitalism, anti-America…pro-homosexuality, illegal immigration, unions, environmentalism, gun control, feminism and social justice” curriculum.
“They are going to force us to pay to indoctrinate our own kids,” Zeanah warned, “this is not a novel like ‘1994’ [sic], it’s Common Core.”
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hitler wasn't "pro-homosexual," "feminism," "social justice" or "anti-capitalist." In fact, weren't some of the first groups that he went after the "homosexuals" and Marxists?
And the capitalists were his major supporters.
@Codyc: When you are that stupid, y'all don't need no "fax."
Ew — Republican Women in Alabama. Ew.
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Utter, willful, unconscionable ignorance……..what' worse is that so many people actually BUY IT! Where are their brains, and why don't they care about FACTS?! I remain amazed on a daily basis.
First of all, one of the children indoctrinated by the Nazis is Pope Benedict. Fine example he turned out to be. Second, she must have been reading that revisionist boob Scott Lively, who has claimed that the Nazis were all — all of them, mind you — homosexuals, and that this is why the S.S. made such skillful, dedicated killers. Third, you and I know (but this halfwit does not know) that being gay is innate and that gays cannot "indoctrinate" anyone into homosexuality. These evangelical Christians are getting to be a bit of a bore.
I still want to see one of these anti gay evangelical types try to 'choose' to not be straight.
More power to her. The more idiots like her spew this nonsense, the more sensible people they will drive away from them. She's one of the best recruiters we have.
It's a good thing I'm a leftist, social justice, anti-gun, anti-death penalty, gay liberal, or I'd be calling for people this ignorant to be killed before they drag the rest of the species down with them.
Seriously, where do they come up with this drivel?
The squeaky, self congratulatory tone , the smugness, condescension and bad dress sense, readily identify this woman as a GOP RWNJ. If she actually tried using a few brain cells her head would explode.
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