Document drop: What Scholastic is teaching your kids about the Occupiers
Scholastic Inc. is a nearly century-old educational publishing company that distributes books, magazines, and other teaching materials through the schools.
If you have kids (or remember from your own grade-school days), Scholastic puts out news bulletins that get sent home weekly or monthly.
One of those items is Scholastic News, which bills itself as “America’s Leading News Source for kids.”
Reader Edward has a daughter in fourth grade who brought home the December issue of Scholastic News — and he wasn’t too happy when he saw the publication’s coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Read for yourself (click for full-size):
The news bulletin also included some quiz questions about OWS:
Talk about a whitewash. The Scholastic writers have great futures ahead as MSM writers.
Reader Edward wrote to Scholastic:
I grew up in Soviet Union and seeing your propaganda about Occupy Wall Street brings back my memories.
I do not remember seeing in any of your editions anything about Tea Party movement.
I’m neither Republican or Democrat but I would rather see my kids hear about both sides.
Scholastic responded:
Thank you for contacting Scholastic Book Clubs. I am happy to forward on your concern about providing both Democrat and Republican views. I apologize for any inconvenience you may have encountered while trying to offer different views for your children.
We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your concerns with us and I made sure that staff in our corporate headquarters will see your comments. Again, thank you.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at bookclubs@scholastic.com or toll-free at 1-800-SCHOLASTIC (800-724-6527). We are available Monday – Friday: 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Central Time, and on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
We truly appreciate your support of Scholastic Book Clubs.
Perhaps the next edition can provide kids with a full accounting of the Occupy-related illnesses, vandalism, rapes, deaths, and other criminal violations — and a related pop quiz on John Nolte’s Occupy arrest rap sheet.
The kids deserve the whole truth. The teachers unions’ Alinsky brigade won’t give it to them.
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Mermaz tips me to this rather unbalanced piece on the Tea Party published by Scholastic last fall. Compare and contrast:
The Tea Party movement was founded in 2009 to advocate smaller government, lower taxes, and a smaller national debt. According to a CBS News poll, 18 per cent of Americans identify themselves as Tea Party supporters.
“The Tea Parties are filled with people who are average citizens,” Ross told the Scholastic Kids Press Corps. “We are the heart and soul of what the American spirit is.”
U.S. Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii disagrees.
“I think they’re good Americans, but they go to the extreme,” he said. “They’re not covering the soul of America.”
Inouye is a former veteran and spoke to the Scholastic Kids Press Corps at a rally where the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) endorsed Senator Barbara Boxer for U.S. Senate in California.
…In Nevada, Sharron Angle, a Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, has become a real threat to U.S. Senator Harry Reid, who currently serves as the Senate Majority Leader. Reid called out the big guns to go up against his opponent. Former President Bill Clinton was recently in Nevada campaigning for him and warning voters against casting their ballots in anger.
“If any time in your life you make an important decision when you’re mad, there’s an 80 per cent chance you’re going to make a mistake,” Clinton said at a rally for Reid. “I don’t want people to abandon their anger. I want them to channel it so they can think clearly.”
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A reader reminds me this isn’t the first time Scholastic has gone moonbatty:
Not the first time that Scholastic has whitewashed or succumbed to radical environmentalist (TreeHugger and Sierra Club) and liberal (Mother Jones, New York Times, Rethinking Schools, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood) pressure. Earlier in the year they succeeded in shaking down Scholastic and won another liberal propaganda campaign that seeks to dictate average Americans’ lives down to the kindergarten level simply because a curriculum was not up to the standards of the environmental Left.
The liberals claimed that providing children any information on coal is commercial indoctrination, worthy of an all out ideological war from nearly every single progressive group. However, the lesson packet also included general information on nuclear, hydroelectric power, wind, natural gas and solar energy.
Of course now, Scholastic simply wants to focus on promoting environmental awareness child activism based on the book The Down-to-Earth-Guide to Global Warming, which was written by Al Gore’s co-producer of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Laurie David.
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Related today: Occupying the Classroom: NYU to Offer Class in Occupy Wall Street
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“Educate, collaborate, AGITATE!”: Alinsky’s teacher corps
Flashback: Bill Ayers declares education “the motor-force of revolution”
Obama’s classroom campaign: No junior lobbyist left behind
Brainwashed in New Rochelle
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
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Roses are red. Bees are swarming. We’re all going to DIE from global warming!
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The 3 R’s in the Age of Obama: Rappin’, revolution & radicalism
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Scholastic made a FORTUNE off of the American publishing rights for the Harry Potter empire. It also publishes Star Wars fiction for young readers. And these guys support OWS?
I used to order from them back in the day too. What a shame. First we have Muppets agitating for free food and now we have the Potter-funded Scholastic advocating the end of capitalism because it’s not fair.
The “News shorts” and “News IQ” quiz questions are clearly pushing left-wing propaganda into the minds of school children.
The “Scholastic News” writers and editors made a very conscious decision of what to include and what to leave out.
What gets put in? All of the propaganda of “big companies on Wall Street are making too much money” and the Marxist “spread the wealth around” message.
What gets left out? The truth about the crimes committed. The truth about the free enterprise system. The truth that more people in this country disagree with the OWS protestors than agree with them.
This propaganda is outrageous.
Thanks Edward for holding this groups feet to the fire! I feel so sorry for people who have kids in school now. Home school if possible to give true facts to your kids.
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This bears repeating…
Today, a person saying that is called a “right-wing-nut” / “Teabagger” / etc.
Sixty years ago, it was a Democratic President saying that.
My how the Democratic Party has changed.
In other words: “If we care what you think, we’ll ask your opinion. In the meantime, if you’ll excuse us, we have young minds to manipulate for the Party.”
I’ll say it again, we must reclaim the public education system from the grip of the current Marxian Socialist establishment in America. That is a key to the long term eradication of communist control.
Young minds full of mush to regurgitate the Party propaganda. Sieg Heil!
Glad my daughter is a grown woman–a Rush baby to boot!
It’s going to take generations to bring this country back to its founding principles, but we must start now. Take some lessons from the progressives and begin with the youngest of children as they have done. I believe as soon as the likes of Sesame Street and/or Scholastic start feeling the heat, they’ll change what they are shoveling to our children that’s why it’s so important for us not to stop, not to back down. Take the fight to them and do it now! Thanks for posting the phone number Michelle, that’s my cue. There is more of us than of them, we’ve just been too complacent over the years. Look where it’s gotten us.
Sure, it is marshmallow. It is for kids.
If they had done a similar puff piece about the Tea Party, and if they followed this up with a truly objective compare and contrast article on the two movements, then I would not see anything wrong with it.
But that is the nature of effective propaganda. It is generally ‘true,’ as long as you ignore what it leaves out and how it is otherwise spun.
There is a Very Good Reason you are required to swear to tell “the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth,” instead of just being required to swear to tell the truth.
Remember Scholastic is tied to the teachers and their unions. They are going to reflect the liberal, anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist meme being repeated by teachers in the classroom. This is just one more manifestation of progressives having taken over most of the institutions in our society.
The questions and answers are ridiculous and show an extreme degree of ignorance of how business and the larger world economy functions. Our kids continue to be taught falsehoods based in inane 19th century Marxian imaginings of how the world operates.
Wealth is created and built, it is not gathered in baskets off the ground every morning after it falls to earth – some taking more than their “fair share”. As long as human beings continue to believe those myths and fastasies, we will continue to have to dealt with this nonsense. Life is not a zero sum game.
Also, please avoid using the word “CAPITALISM”, it is a Karl Marx construct concocted for the purpose of presenting an enemy to vilify. The term “capitalism” is to free enterprise as “pharmaceuticalism” is to medicine. Words have meaning, and used improperly can manipulate truth into lie.
WORD TO KNOW
Peaceful (peess’- full) A level of crime characterized by drug use, thefts, battery and sexual assaults.
My kids go to public school. Sure we have problems with the school on occassion and the teachers and the adminstrative people know who we are. We have found that by sending our boys to public school, but still teaching them at home as well we are helping to prepare them for when we are not there (when they head off to college).
We talk to our children daily about what they learned at school today and when we find some progressive propaganda being taught we show them the truth backed up with facts. We then contact the school about teaching one sided, just to let them know we are watching.
It has worked out quite well. 3/4ths of the time our children are able to point out the progressive garabage their teachers are spewing and ask us questions about the truth of it. They have all become quite adapt at researching the internet for the truth and have used those facts to counter their teachers progressive spin through their essays and the questions they ask of their teachers.
This is just what my wife and I feel will best prepare our children to face the wider world when we are not there to watch over them any more.
Did the kids’ newsletter talk about the rusty syringes found in every OWS encampment?
Good point. It’s “free enterprise” and “private property rights” from now on for me. I am sick to death of explaining to the indoctrinated leftkooks that is what capitalism actually is.
ditto for me as well.
Well, it’s pretty obvious what’s behind this. Scholastic knows that most teachers are bleeding-heart liberal, so they are catering to them.
Thank you for sharing that. My wife have been debating the decision of what to do with our 8th grader (who has been in private Christian school since Kindergarten) next year for High School. You comment personal testimony helps.
Scholastic News: Remember kids, next Monday is ‘Brown Shirt Day’!
Another reason to consider home schooling.
For those with college students or just interested. Walk into any college book store and take a look at the books required for courses.
The looney left knows they don’t need to win us over. They just need to win over our children.
are these some of the student projects?
ok kids, officer friendly has his squad car parked outside, who wants to show the nice pig what we do to squad cars in the occupy movement?
you have no money, the rich kid has 20 bucks, will you act like robin hood, and take his money, and give all the others in your class some of the rich kids money?
when you go home tonight, and your mommie tells you to take a bath, tell her no, you are going to pretend to be one of the 99%, so you will not take a bath, or sleep in your bed tonight.
Are there any reasons left to send children to public schools? What would happen if all parents pulled their kids out? I seam that no education would be better than the current brainwashing occurring in the public schools.
Uh, ‘scuse me, but to remain peaceful and orderly, don’t they have to have been peaceful and orderly in the first place?
Let’s get a ruling on that from Eric Holder.
My daughter goes to school one block from the NY Stock Exchange. Perhaps Scholastic could have written about how during one of their “marches” the OWS crowd terrorized young children and their parents on their way to/from school, forcing them to run a gauntlet of hate.
Why do any of you folks care?
Sholastic publishes books; like soap and indoor plumbing – things you people know nothing about.
You folks should stick to home-schooling.
That is another thing that I am sick of the liberals twisting…the of Robin Hood. They never tell the whole story just the “he stole from the rich to give to the poor”. They always leave out that what he “stole” were unjust taxes levied by government on the people of the land.
I am sure the Unions have thought that one through already. I would not be surprised if there are already plans in motion to try to force all home shool parents to become part of the teacher’s union and to only be able to teach “approved” lesson plans.
Good point. Also, it was 50 years ago that another democrat, JFK, said the famous line “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. If JFK were running for president today, he would be considered a right-wing nut. The democrats have become socialist/marxists and today’s republicans are yesterday’s democrats.
There are moochers who beg for others to give them money and then there are looters who propose to take money from others.
The OWS have some moochers among them who just use the movement to get stuff but a majority of them are just looters who want to take it from others. If there were enough of them, they would take it by force.
Alynsky, Coward and Piven, the far left, Unions, Obama, and public employees all support them in their revolution to take from others. The majority of the country does not support their intention to just steal from others under the false pretense of fairness.
Whether they like it or not, others wealth is not theirs to take. Looting is simply, well, looting.
You were so excited to defend your main source for information that you left the first c out of Scholastic.
if someone wrote that to me, I’d ask what the hell it means. I’d ask them 100 times if that’s what it took…
You are right on that. Here are a few more JFK quotes.
for the OWS types:
Here’s one that for those who want to support/oppose Romney based on his religion:
Here is one on the affect of taxes on an economy:
that reminds me–how was your trip to Africa?
On December 9th, 2011 at 12:47 pm, tre said:
There’s a reason why unrepentant domestic terrorist and revolutionary communist Bill Ayers decided to shift his focus to “educating” college students.
Translation: If I do something you don’t like, you’re supposed to not care. If you do something I don’t like, I want the government to outlaw it.
I think JFK was the last Democrat President who WASN’T a Marxist “Progressive”.
We home-schooled two of our daughters and sent the other two to a Christian school. One of home-schoolers is now attending college (after a rather long break from any school) and comes over with some real doozies from her classes–but luckily, she has enough grounding that I can point out the lies, and she listens. Doesn’t argue with me either!
On December 9th, 2011 at 1:28 pm, spaceycakes said:
It means:
“I’m sorry that you found it inconvenient that we are
offeringforcing upon your children views that are different from your own. We are Hell-bent on brainwashing your children, and we’re sorry that you find that inconvenient.”I’m fairly convinced that ILMC is posting from a mental hospital and it’s right before med time.
Step 1 is to get the Fed out of it.
Each state, territory, and protectorate should have it’s own education system, answerable to the people of their own state.
Holds letter high and yells to staff: Hey, everybody see this? (wads up letter and tosses into circular file)
On December 9th, 2011 at 1:48 pm, Hangfire said:
Indeed.
And remember which Republican played a key role in supporting the U.S. Department of Education, when conservative Republicans were opposing it.
To whom am I referring?
Newt Gingrich.
One of his best ones for them is:
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
self-edit…
Remember which Republican played a key role in supporting the CREATION OF the U.S. Department of Education…
My wife and I wanted to homeschool, but we both had to work to support proletarian a-holes such as yourself.
ITTRP–that’s the answer I want from them
(I thought by asking a certain amount of times, they’d be forced to give me the truth).
i.e., sucks to be you
Point taken. I will stop using the terms “capitalism” and “capitalist”, and switch to “free enterprise” and “entrepreneur”. I’m tired of the left taking otherwise benign words and appropriating their meanings to promote the left’s agenda.
I always hated that quote. It is the basis for every socialist/communist/fascist society in the world.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself.”
Fixed It For Him
Looks like they won.
The generation of We
God save us. Any way we can get the voting age raised to 50?
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Did I just hear that Boeing was NOT gonna build in SC?
In his essay, “Pravda Means Truth” (which I may have to type in just to get it onto the internet), Robert A. Heinlein described his visit to the Soviet Union in the early 60s.
One night, he and his wife (who had learned Russian for the trip) were accosted by a group of Red Army cadets, all jubilant over the Soviet’s putting a man in orbit.
There were no papers available in Moscow that night. Nor, as Heinlein discovered, in several other major cities. The next day, the news reported the loss of an “unmanned” satellite.
He was in the Soviet Union when the Francis Cary Powers incident took place. He and his wife were called into the local authorities, and received a diatribe on the evils of America. When Heinlein lost his temper, pointed out the Gulags on a wall map, and named each of them, they were dismissed.
All that day and evening they were treated rudely and abused by the Soviet citizens. They came back to their apartment to find their plumbing being ‘worked on’.
The next day, the gov’t pravda was “more in sorrow than in anger”; once again the Soviet people became friendlier and more open to the Heinleins.
Heinlein wondered how the opinions of a nation of 100 million people could be turned on and off like a light?
He and his wife visited the Alma Ata collective school. Children began there at 15 months of age (after which they spent perhaps 2 hours a day with their mothers). Some 5 year olds perform a dance; other children sang songs, read poems, acted little skits.
But, the songs and poems were all about the 5 year plan, or about how “we must protect our revolution”.
That’s how it’s done, Heinlein concluded, from cradle to grave give them nothing but the gov’t line.
They met a young woman on a train, who was from one of the formerly independent Soviet “republics” (Lithuania, I believe). The intourist guide overheard their conversation, and there was a tremendous argument over the simple, historical fact that that one “republic” was not always part of the Soviet Union.
John Paul Jones did not appear in their history books. Trotsky, iirc him saying, was an “unperson”.
When I read that account, in the 1980s, I was chilled. When the Soviet Union collapsed and all the MSM was celebrating the “fall” of communism, I warned anyone who would listen that communism is a philosophy, not a nation, and that now we would have to continue fighting the communists – only this time on our own soil. I never dreamed they could have won so quickly.
Re: sending your kids to public school. We have and are–I would rather home school them but know I can’t do the current math or science.
One of my greatest pleasures is listening to my junior repeat the questions he throws at his teachers or the conversations they have in class. Many of his classmates agree with his conservative viewpoints but need somebody to stand up first–then they join in against the lib teacher.
We have to teach them well at home–the schools are full of the propaganda Michelle is writing about.
Gah.. Francis Gary Powers, not Cary. That was the incident where the Soviets got their hands on an entirely-too-intact U-2 for it to have been hit by a missile at 80 thousand feet.
Having been in his position, I feel great sympathy for your son.
Reason #987,598 why we began homeschooling. Our kids were in public school until this year. Such a relief to have them out from under the thumb of the state.
Same here, but it’s worse now than when I was in school.
Much of my childhood, at least the better part of it, was spent attending DOD overseas schools, which were blessedly overlooked by the Left. Many of my teachers were the wives of officers attached to the base.
I’m not sure what the big deal is over this. I read the Scholastic article above, and it’s not really a bad summary for such a brief explanation.
It accurately identifies the general ‘gist of the OWS folks cause without going into too much detail, and accurately identifies some of the primary reasons people disagree with the movement.
I don’t really see anything in there I read as a bias in favor of or opposed to the OWS ‘movement’.
I was born in 1953 and obviously went to school during the 60′s and graduated from High School in 1971. I wonder how much left-wing propaganda was “taught” to me without my realizing it. Hopefully not much because I volunteered for the Army to go to Vietnam right after I graduated from high school. Today, my views are that of a Tradionalist-Conservative. Liberals make me want to puke.
On December 9th, 2011 at 2:09 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
Very interesting propaganda. Judging by the statement that the debt is $10 Trillion, this video was made around October 2008. And even though it talks about the first “millenials” reaching voting age in 2016(?), the “will you join us” was likely intended to reach and influence young voters in 2008.
So, after all of their complaining about the debt, what do they propose?
The creation of a new multi-Billion $ government program!
Duh!
On December 9th, 2011 at 2:58 pm, Yashmak said:
“big companies on Wall Street are making too much money”
and
“average Americans should be able to share more in the wealth of the companies they work for”
That is Marxist propaganda.
And the kids are taught that that is the right answer to the questions asked of them in the “News IQ” section.
My two older ones just stayed silent and rolled their eyes. My junior is fun because he is one big dude, extremely intelligent and we live in a small conservative town. Its not too bad. I don’t see any of my other kiddos having the guts to take on the propagandizing teachers but he does.
What would you suggest Hiraghm?
You mean like This Guy’s campaign promises? And, honestly, what would you call his political supporters?
h/t Doug Powers.
On December 9th, 2011 at 2:28 pm, WaterBoyz said:
Mixed blessing. The unions got what they wanted…
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/09/nlrb-drops-case-against-boeing/
Nothing. Sometimes you just gotta fight the fight. No one wants to put young men in combat, but sometimes there’s no alternative. I’m glad he’s a big dude, it’ll help, I think. Because he’s fighting the fight, he will be better prepared for the political battles in the future, and the other students will not only learn to think critically for themselves, but also the importance of being the one to stand up for what you know is right.
Celebrate him, is all I can suggest. Make sure he knows how proud he makes you feel, not just for believing what is right, but for being willing to stand up for what he believes is right.
I still sympathize with him, tho.
Nope. Boeing reached a deal with the union to build the 737 in Everett and the Dreamliner will be built in SC.
On December 9th, 2011 at 3:14 pm, Hiraghm said:
Marxists, of course!
My gosh, I would not have believed that a guy named Marx was literally running for office (as a Democrat of course), unless I saw the campaign web site that I just saw. Truth stranger than fiction.
“Right to work” is a Constitutionally protected principle, in my opinion. Forced unionization was merely a precursor to the individual mandate of Obamacare.
As President, I would push for a Constitutional amendment requiring “open shops” nationwide.
HOMESCHOOL!
I was lucky. Most of my Public school teachers were not outwardly political.
I did much more arguing during my less than stellar first stint in college (mid 90′s). I remember walking out of a Western Civ class in which the professor had gone off on Rush Limbaugh (it was obvious she had never listened) for about 20 minutes. She ignored my raised hand, so I eventually packed up and left.
In another class I argued against my Philosophy professor (who I otherwise liked) and everyone in the class who would actually comment that standards of living were not decreasing. These community college kids acted like they should be earning more and doing better during school than their parents were after decades of career building. Pathetic. Until Obama came along that claim had pretty much been totally discredited. OWS is that idea reborn, and on steroids.
Based on their own math, 99% (claimed by OWS) minus 18% (reported to be TP) is 81%, not 99%. No wonder children are doing so poorly in public schools.
I always thought conservatives missed a golden opportunity to strike back at the OWS movement by degrading their 99% claim by having people sign petitions disavowing the movement. It would have been fun to here, “Today the OWS movement is down to 36% and still falling…” Especially after each rape or public defecation.
should have been “hear”(shame face). Unfortunately I do my best editing after I submit.
– ITooktheRedPill
It says (accurately) that that’s what the protestors believe. The article itself does not advocate for that position. As such, I don’t see how you can claim it’s an example of bias in favor of the OWS folks.
Have already gone to Battle Stations over at my granddaughter’s school.
She is in kindergarten. Teacher didn’t want any Christmas…..er, Winter Holiday celebration because one of the kids in her class is a Jehovah’s Witness.
Fixed that (along with some other parents/guardians). Kids are having Christmas party and play. The JW (God bless the poor kid) is going to the Library.
I hate the tyranny of the minority.
Because the questions didn’t include ignoring the laws of civil society, and government forced forgiveness of (all) debt (as though anyone who holds a debt is rich and evil).
I have never understood why one kid affects the activities of entire classes. Never got me out of the “Dance unit” in PE class.
I feel the same way about kids that are allergic to peanuts and peanut by-products.
I’m sorry, but it sucks that your kid could die if he/she gets even a whiff of a peanut.
It sucks more that the other 500 kids at the school can’t have a PB&J sandwich, or a snickers bar, or any of a thousand products that have peanuts in them, or are prepared in a factory that also makes products with peanuts.
My granddaughter’s school is a Peanut-Free Zone. Zero Tolerance.
Exactly. The point is not that they are misrepresenting the OWS people, but that they are leaving out the things that the OWS have done such as the rape, vandalism, and lack of following the law. Not to mention it does not present the other side of the argument.
That would be the same as an article that said the Nazi’s blamed the Jews for all of their problems, but left out the actions the Nazi’s took (the mass extermination of 6 million Jews) to remedy what they believed was the source of their economic woes.
In some ways I cannot blame the school as their are waaayyyyy to many people who will sue at the drop of a dime and that would be a ripe situation for an ambulance chaser to go after.
If it was my kid, and they could actually die from exposure to peanuts……I would keep them home. Too much risk.
My granddaughter could be given a pack of peanut M&Ms by, say, a cousin and then be expelled for breaking the rules.
Or, God forbid, sit next to the kid that’s allergic to the peanuts.
It has to stop somewhere. People shouldn’t lose their homes because of a tragic mistake, or have to pay higher taxes due to their local schools having to pay large settlements. As a society, we have become waaaaay to litigious, true.
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HI HIRAGHM–#57. I remember the Gary Powers / U2 “shootdown” well. The plane was probably closer to 100,000 ft. altitude. And the Russki SA-1 and SA-2 missiles probably had very little turn or lift capability at those altitudes. And the U2 is probably mushing along near the flight stability limits at that altitude.
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It didn’t look like the plane was hit by fragments. It may have been a wide miss by a missile with the blast wave shutting down combustion in the single jet engine that brought the plane down. Most jet engines barely run at those altitudes. Or maybe it was a mechanical failure.
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Long ago in the Army I saw tests on a prototype tracked vehicle missile system. The CW radar, missiles, firing console, and generator system were on a single vehicle that would drive down the road and protect a moving armored column from jet aircraft and helicopter attacks.
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Some of the excellent Hawk System engineers helped the Mauler contracter group fix some problems in their radars and missiles. However, each time a missile fired the blast wave and / or oxygen depletion in the area “put out the fire” in the diesel or turbine engine and shut down the system. Failsafe missile detonation occurred shortly thereafter. The contract was terminated a few months later since the problem couldn’t be solved.
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It’s a tough neighborhood when a blast goes off nearby!
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John Bibb
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Completly agree. The problem is too many parents see school as nothing more than a daycare. That is just one of the reasons that the libs have been so successful using the school as an indoctrination system. Both parents work and are “too tired” to deal with it when they get home.
Now I know not all parents are like that, but too many are and that is one of the reasons we are in this mess.
My oldest son got suspened from school a few years ago, because he and his brother were wrestling (the school called it fighting).
My daughter and I have sat down and read an essay together by Ace on the libs disconnect with these “magical” energy sources (one of the few essays by Ace that was rated ‘G’ for all audiences!)
She understands where energy and meat come from: It’s extracted from the Earth at a cost to the Earth or the critter. Windmills need copper and solar panels need a host of exotic minerals.
Interesting about generations following generations. Most kids rebel against the thoughts of their parents. If the parent says A, then the kid wants it to be B. It’s the adage that the ministers kids are the wildest. Maybe not in front of the parent but when they are on their own.
If conservatives teach their kids conservative values, then they will want to be liberals. If they teach them liberism, then they want to be conservative. Kids being taught liberalism today will likely reject it once it becomes mainstream.
Funny how it works but kids like to find their own way. They don’t like being told how things are by the old fuddy duddys. They want to prove them wrong so they take the contrarian position.
Mom & Dad just don’t “know” how it really is. They like to rebel against the rules. They don’t need school. They can have sex without consequence. They can take drugs and be fine. They don’t have to work hard like Dad did. They don’t have to follow laws they don’t like.
FIFY, Bubba.
Boys and Girls, for the last time, the Communist Party has long, long been a fervent supporter of ALL unions, and especially the TEACHERS Unions!! Check it out at CPUSA.ORG!!! These teacher/TROLLS get they’re talking points (read: marching orders) every morning in their e-mail!!! No wonder our kids are so screwed up by the time they get out of college!?!?!
– Truesoldier
Sure it does.
“Some people disagree with what the protestors are saying or doing. They say the message of Occupy Wall Street isn’t clear. They say the protestors haven’t offered any solutions to the problems or made any particular demands.”
And also:
“. . as the protests continue, mayors in some cities are worried about the strain on their cities’ resources. For example, extra Police officers and cleanup crews are needed to make sure the gatherings remain peaceful and orderly.”
Again, not much detail there, but I wouldn’t expect much in an article for school children. Now, if you consider the lack of mention of specific instances of rape etc. as a bias, well there’s little I can do to dissuade you. That there has been some degree of disorder and violence is implied in the final paragraph anyways. It seems to me that Scholastic has gone out of its way to AVOID inserting a bias either way into this article.
One of the reasons I’m broke is I’m helping my son and daughter in law homeschool their kids. She taught elementary and middle school for 8 years. Don’t even get her started on the warped value system, union games and dumbed down curriculum – and this area has the best public system in the state. Sheesh.
This is about killing me, but I know my grandkids are not being taught the OWS cretin are some kind of national heros – and Ozero is a saint yadayada. Thank God for that.
Hiraghm, thank you for reminding me–I don’t do it nearly enough.
T-bone–I agree to some extent. I went all lib on my dad, until half way through college when I had to start defending positions. We had some great fights. Now we sound like identical records (CDs?). I like my kids to have their own ideas–but its amazing how they usually come around to what they were taught when young.
This junior of mine is an anomaly. Was conservative since the day he was born. Sort of like that conservative teenage character Michael J Fox portrayed on some sitcom years ago. .
Aww, I love Scholastic. I have such good memories of ordering books off their forms in school! And they were responsible for recognizing the genius that is Harry Potter. (A small publishing house in England printed the first one I think, but Scholastic is how it became a phenomenon.)
When I was 15, I was more worried about girls, getting to school on time, completing my homework, playing outside, working to make some fool around money, and generally enjoying my life in the good ole USA.
When I was 25, I had to start working full time and supporting myself. I didn’t want to move back home. Thats when the hard lessons of life began. Through no fault of my own, I would be laid off, or downsized, had to deal with a variety of bosses, some of whom didn’t like me and I didn’t like them. The ways of the world became more clear. I began to pay more attention to the news, current events around the world etc.
When I was 35, I knew I had to be more involved in the world around me, pay more attention to politics, what was going on around the world. I saw things I didn’t want to see but the world was changing.
Now I see real danger. Communism is a real threat right here. I want no part of that. How many millions of people were murdered to either implement communism or keep it going? Creation of a welfare state means welfare for everyone but the ruling elites. I don’t want to be on welfare. Those people don’t have a very high standard of living.
Point is, my views changed over time as I matured. Utopian ideals sung in Beatles songs were unrealistic. Having the opportunity to succeed became more important. I understood things more clearly and formed poltical and life opinions that were different from my youth but grounded in everything I had seen and heard in my life experience including the lessons from my parents.
The OWS people are foolish. They are like me when I was young and dumb. They really have no idea. Thats why they can’t even agree on a message other than general class warfare. I truly hope we beat those people at the ballot box but these polls for the primary and general election are horrifying. I am afraid we are not there yet but I hold out hope.
Scholastic = just another Marxist outfit.
This is why we should not have public schools. They have been made into Marxist indoctrination zones.
Stacey of Liberty
I can appreciate the sentimental value of those newspapery book-order sheets we used to get, but this is a pretty clear slice of bias.
Even you’ve got to admit, Stacey, the response scholastic gave was like a letter from a politican you just called to voice a vivid, dissenting opinion. Frankly, I’m not even so sure they want feedback—and the “please contact us” is more of just a business PR thing than a sincere apology.
In any case, they will be hearing from me for the first time since elementary school.
On December 9th, 2011 at 4:04 pm, Yashmak said:
It’s making sure that school kids are taught (and quizzed on) what OWS protestors believe.
When did Scholastic ever make sure that school kids are taught (and quizzed on) what Tea Party protestors believe?
Therein lies the bias. They are a mouthpiece for leftist propaganda, not a “news” source for kids.
I just remembered. It was scholastic weekly journal thing where I learned about global cooling! We were all going to freeze to death and the jungles were all going to die.
Yes, that was about the time when I gave up on them – during the Ice Age scare. I mean, we were told that glaciers would literally be covering my front lawn here just east of Indianapolis by 1980.
We’re just a bit over 3 weeks away from 2012 and I still don’t see any glaciers!!
This is exactly the reason why our kids are confused, dumbed down and radicalized! The regressive public schools and their brainwashing of our children! They have our kids for 6-7 hours every day. 6-7 hours a day to fill their heads with liberal nonsense. What do we expect? GIGO!!! There is no mystery here, folks. This is what we get. As we have blindly gone along with it…assuming our children were actually getting an education! You know…READING COMPREHENSION, HISTORY (THE TRUE STUFF), GRAMMAR, MATH, DEBATING SKILLS, PROBLEM SOLVING. Instead, they were taught how bad our country is, how unfair, how we are destroying the planet, how we pick on the downtrodden, how we need to let everyone win so no one feels bad!! Raising a bunch of weenies who have NO CONCEPT of the spirit of competition, and NO WORK ETHIC. Is it any wonder we are witnessing the tantrums of the OWS morons?
If we take back our schools, maybe we can yet save the generation coming up!! Start with Scholastic. Make them accountable. Read what they publish and BOMBARD them with calls, e-mails, letters, anything to let them know we are not going to let them get away with this any more!