A analysis of New York's public school textbooks and library holdings by the Daily News finds that the material available to young students is, in addition to being riddled with errors, full of politically correct claptrap passing as conventional wisdom.
In one book, jihad is defined as "to do one's best to resist temptation and overcome evil." In another, Al Sharpton is said to hail from a "long tradition of activist ministers like Martin Luther King Jr." and Louis Farrakhan is described as a "black American of achievement" who bears a "message no American can ignore."
Gail Stein, a teacher in New York City and the author several French textbooks, said she was told to remove references to perfume (it's sexist), champagne (might encourage underage drinking) and chocolate mousse made with cognac (same reason).
In a history textbook, "America's Past and Promise," middle school students are told that a 1915 photo of men linking hands around the world's biggest tree, the General Sherman sequoia in California, are "conservationists ...(trying) to stop loggers from cutting it down" when actually they were just measuring it.
And thanks to creationist complaints in Texas, textbooks that once referred to geological events taking place "millions of years ago" and fossil fuels "formed millions of years ago" now say such things happened "in the distant past" or "over time." The previous descriptions conflicted with biblical timelines, you see.
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The NCAA is pressuring a North Carolina college founded for the Lumbee Indians to drop what it calls the "racially offensive" Indian logo and nickname used by the school, reports FrontPage magazine.
Officials at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke, formerly known as the Croatan Normal School, were dumbfounded by the complaint from the NCAA's Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee. If anyone has earned to right to use Indian logos, they said, it would be a school founded by and for Native Americans.
Lumbee Tribal Chairman Milton R. Hunt said he was very surprised by the (NCAA's) letter. "To us, [the logo and nickname are] a part of the university’s name, just an extension of that, and the Lumbees would consider it an insult if it were changed," he said.
UNC-Pembroke was founded in 1887 after the Lumbee Tribe petitioned the North Carolina Assembly for a school. At first, it was simply an elementary school but the school began offering college decrees in 1940, which is when the school also adopted the Braves nickname and Indian mascot.
UNC-Pembroke was founded in 1887 after the Lumbee Tribe petitioned the North Carolina Assembly for a school. At first, it was simply an elementary school but the school began offering college decrees in 1940, which is when the school also adopted the Braves nickname and Indian mascot.
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