On
Thursday, in the shadow of the hurricane barreling down on the region,
the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, a large teachers' union, launched
an attack on the state's chapter of the Black Alliance for Educational Options,
a nonprofit organization working to improve black educational
achievement through education reform and school choice. On its official
Twitter account, the teachers' union ludicrously alleged that BAEO supports a "pro KKK curriculum," and sent out the statement to various followers.
The presumed basis for the attack seems to be that one of the 119 private schools that accept vouchers in Louisiana uses a Bob Jones University Press textbook which, while stopping short of praising the Klan, casts its birth in a more positive light of "fighting the decline in morality."
While whitewashing the KKK is certainly abhorrent, one wonders if the LFT similarly fights the use of the historically debunked The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn as a public school textbook throughout many states. Many parents in the U.S. would find use of The People's History no less odious than the Bob Jones book, especially in light of the FBI's release of files on Zinn that cites an informant confirming Zinn's membership in the Communist Party.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/louisiana_teachers_union_calls_black_school_choice_group_pro-kkk.html#ixzz257P0SrVL
The presumed basis for the attack seems to be that one of the 119 private schools that accept vouchers in Louisiana uses a Bob Jones University Press textbook which, while stopping short of praising the Klan, casts its birth in a more positive light of "fighting the decline in morality."
While whitewashing the KKK is certainly abhorrent, one wonders if the LFT similarly fights the use of the historically debunked The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn as a public school textbook throughout many states. Many parents in the U.S. would find use of The People's History no less odious than the Bob Jones book, especially in light of the FBI's release of files on Zinn that cites an informant confirming Zinn's membership in the Communist Party.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/louisiana_teachers_union_calls_black_school_choice_group_pro-kkk.html#ixzz257P0SrVL
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