National Hogg demands $5 million from Smith & Wesson...

[Diamondback]

If we were all intelligent enough to see the writing on the wall, we would be teachers, rather then debaters. Which some of you are masters at I am sure.

Well, some are master baiters for sure... both in the "windup with words" and the "hands down trou" senses.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

No offense there Andy but you are a rarity and definitely an exception. I'd bet that 70-80% of the teachers out there are towing the line, especially in big cities. We were actually told by our10th grade American Govt teacher, her quote "Republicans are bad and Democrats are good", amongst other things. She also attempted to re-write historical American events to paint the picture that she/they(whoever "they" are), wanted.

I get it ....and understand that as much as I would like to be otherwise , I am most likely a rarity....
That said...
In my class I do my best to get my students to think for themselves...and I would never say what your teacher told your class.

As for re-writing history...
That along with passing 21st century standards , judgments , values etc on the people and actions of the past is wrong....
It also does you and the person of the past and event , a disservice .

History is simply what and who happened...they and the event do not care if you like it or not....
One is always free to like some things and dislike others , of course...but to
Whitewash...
Pass judgment...
Re-write to suit a current idea , fad , trend , etc...Is wrong.

To do any of the above is to lose your history...
If you lose your history , you can't tell where you have been...
If you can't tell where you have been...how do you know where to go...?
To lose the past , is to lose the future.
Andy

 

[Mister Bisley]

I get it ....and understand that as much as I would like to be otherwise , I am most likely a rarity....
That said...
In my class I do my best to get my students to think for themselves...and I would never say what your teacher told your class.

As for re-writing history...
That along with passing 21st century standards , judgments , values etc on the people and action of the past is wrong....
It also does you and the person of the past and event , a disservice .

History is simply what and who happened...they and the event do not care if you like it or not....
One is always free to like some things and dislike others , of course...but to
Whitewash...
Pass judgment...
Re-write to suit a current idea , fad , trend , etc...Is wrong.

To do any of the above is to lose your history...
If you lose your history , you can't tell where you have been...
If you can't tell where you have been...how to you know where to go...?
To lose the past , is to lose the future.
Andy

Amen! Wish they could be like Andy from Everson

 

[DuneHopper]

I get it ....and understand that as much as I would like to be otherwise , I am most likely a rarity....
That said...
In my class I do my best to get my students to think for themselves...and I would never say what your teacher told your class.

As for re-writing history...
That along with passing 21st century standards , judgments , values etc on the people and action of the past is wrong....
It also does you and the person of the past and event , a disservice .

History is simply what and who happened...they and the event do not care if you like it or not....
One is always free to like some things and dislike others , of course...but to
Whitewash...
Pass judgment...
Re-write to suit a current idea , fad , trend , etc...Is wrong.

To do any of the above is to lose your history...
If you lose your history , you can't tell where you have been...
If you can't tell where you have been...how to you know where to go...?
To lose the past , is to lose the future.
Andy

I heard very similar words from my teacher when I took Cultural Anthropology, studying cultures I found very quickly, you could be talking with people the book spoke of, yet to talk with them in person it would be night and day. Its during those years I stopped referring the best I could to people with color. Just my thing.. Good stuff Andy.

 

[Hawaiian]

He first lied about being at the school when the shooting happened. Liberal media seems to have forgotten that. Who is funding and providing the material for his antics? Follow the $, the trail will end at Bloomberg's checkbook.

 

[3MTA3]

Lets remember that we have at least three teachers here on the forum
Speaking only for myself....Not all teachers are anti :
Gun ...
US history...
Civics...
US Citizenship etc...

Am I an exception...? maybe...
But I would like to think that there are more of us than what is stereotypically shown , broadcast , heard of etc , in the teaching profession.
Andy

Andy, I don't know if you are an exception, but you are indeed an exceptional individual. I can say that as a student (graduated in 1978) there was a slight majority of teachers that leaned left and as we advanced from Jr. High to High School the more left leaning things became. The teachers I had that had careers outside of the educational system (everything from military service to car salesmen) were the ones that leaned right. I think most if not all teachers are doing what they think is right.

The "indoctrination" that I experienced was due to more to the class structures, syllabus, and materials - things that I think are mostly out of a teacher's control. There were a few teachers, however, that would find a way to take us aside in small groups and start a discussion with "I'm not supposed to talk about this..." and they were always the ones pushing leftist social politics.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Luckily I teach in a "Life Skills" class...so while reading , writing and arithmetic is on the lesson plan...
We can and do cover things like :
Just what are you saying and "Pledging" to during the Pledge of Allegiance...
Fair does not always mean equal...
Regardless of what your facbook "freinds" say...the whole world might not care 'bout your opinion...
You will not always win...wining 1st , 2nd and 3rd , takes work ...is not given...

When I discuss controversial subjects and asked my opinion , I :
Tailor my response to my class...
Will preface my remarks with a : "I am adult who has far more life experience than you , this is how I think...but that does not mean that what I think , is necessarily "right" or "right" for you....

Again is seems like how I run my class is an exception / different than others...
Andy

 

[Ownerus]

Maybe he's given up on the first two?

 

[nammac]

If we were all intelligent enough to see the writing on the wall, we would be teachers, rather then debaters. Which some of you are masters at I am sure.

Is that the Spanish version...

Master de Bater????

 

[Diamondback]

Is that the Spanish version...

Master de Bater????

Dude, didn't I just drop that stinker last page?

 

[DuneHopper]

Think alike great minds do, Forum on post I did

 

[Kruel J]

 

[DuneHopper]

i'm actually not a fan, but did like seeing it the first time at the movies the first one.
And Jaws, that was sure a great time for Movies......Not to mention all the Clint Eastwood movies.

 

[DuneHopper]

This must be Random thought Tuesday.

 

[titsonritz]

SW should donate 5 mill to the NRA.

That would be freaking awesome!!!!!

But you got me thinking and I got one better...Take that 5 million and give a life membership to the NRA with the purchase of qualifying firearms (namely their ARs and double stack pistols). All ready a life member? No problem it is fully transferable, give as a gift. NRA not only gets the money but new member to boot, S&W sells lots & lots of guns that piss off liberals, everybody important wins and Hogg gets his nose rubbed in it

Pass me my drink, my work is done here.

 

[nammac]

This must be Random thought Tuesday.

That's perfect... Random Thought Tuesday, on Monday...

 

[nammac]

Dude, didn't I just drop that stinker last page?

Hey, no one said I was a fast reader or that I'm even able to read posts in chronological order...

But I do have a sick mind...

 

[Mister Bisley]

This must be Random thought Tuesday.

Banana, lottery, octopus, integers!

 

[DuneHopper]

Banana, lottery, octopus, integers!

You do, and your gonna have to clean it up... is all I am saying.

 

[Mister Bisley]

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