Thread: High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment

High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment


Photo by Sean Getts

It is our duty to stop stuff like this.

Guyer High School (and obviously several others) are complicit in attempting to condition students to interpret the 2nd Amendment in a clearly opposite manner in which it was intended.
This textbook, currently being used by Guyer High School, is attempting to redefine the Second Amendment to impressionable young minds. Parents, you must speak up and demand action. Investigate your child’s history book ASAP, and post more pictures in the comments below. Call your school and demand that revisionist history books like this are removed from the school district.

Textbook version: “The people have a right to keep and bear arms in a state militia.”
Actual 2nd Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment [continued]





Actual 2nd Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Something to remember!!!!!!

http://www.amscopub.com/products/uni...-2010-revision

United States History—Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination, Second Edition, 2010 Revision

Usage Level:

Often this course in Advanced Placement U.S. History is presented in grade 11, but sometimes in grade 9, 10, or 12.

Purpose: This text is designed for a one-semester or one-year United States history course for students preparing to take the AP U.S. History Exam. Teachers can assign the book as the course textbook or as a supplement to a college-level textbook. U.S. History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination presents the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times to the Obama administration. It follows the curriculum put out by the College Board for this course of study.

How This Version Is Different From the Previous Revision:

•A more detailed Table of Contents to highlight the text’s many features.
•New coverage of Bush’s second term.
•Coverage of the 2008 presidential elections.
•Coverage of the first 100 days of the Obama administration.
•Two additional editorial cartoons.
•Two additional multiple-choice questions in the last chapter.
•A new, expanded Index. The index for the previous revision had been incomplete because of space restrictions. The new index is longer and more detailed.

Organization:

Front Matter:
Preface, Table of Contents, and 23-page Introduction that explains what the Advanced Placement Exam in U.S. History is all about.

Text Proper:
Thirty chapters, each covering a different time period. Each chapter begins with an historical quote. Then each chapter narration is divided into sections and subsections by three levels of heads. Each chapter then has an “Historical Perspectives” (historiography) essay on some topic related to the chapter. This is followed by a list of key names, events, and terms from the chapter. Each chapter ends with a set of multiple-choice questions, a set of essay questions, and a set of questions related to a group of documents. In some chapters, this last set of questions is called a Document-Based Question (DBQ). Five of the text’s chapters have a special feature on how to write DBQs. The instruction is sequential, from one feature to the next. Students can gain additional experience by completing the Practice Exam at the back of the book.

Back Matter: Practice Exam, Index, Photo Acknowledgments.

* ISBN: 978-1-56765-660-2 (Print version only) R 785 P

* Electronic Edition of Student Book is on a (CD):

Order Code: R 785 TXT
Price: $17.35, available only for customers purchasing text.ISBN: 978-1-56765-943-6

*Answer Key (CD):
Order Code: N 785 CD

CONTACT US page not working. Imagine that.

Hard to believe this high school is in TEXAS.

I've never wanted to burn any books before, but I sure would take a match to this one!

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WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE HOW A HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOK SUMMARIZES THE RIGHTS GUARANTEED IN THE SECOND AMENDMENT

Sep. 16, 2013 3:24pm
Jason Howerton

Controversy is brewing around a school district in Denton, Texas, that is said to be using a United States history book that seems to summarize the Second Amendment inaccurately. However, the Denton Independent School District maintains it only uses the book as “supplemental” material and is “disseminating the correct information on the Second Amendment” from other texts.

But there are several other schools that appear to be using the book, too.

“The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia,” the definition in the book, “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination,” which acts as a study guide for the Advanced Placement U.S. history test, reads.

Source: “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination”

The amendment as ratified by the U.S. reads [emphasis added]: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Based on the book’s interpretation, citizens only retain the right to bear arms in a “state militia,” a case where citizens are called upon during emergencies to protect the state. Not surprisingly, many would take issue with that interpretation.

It could certainly be an accidental misinterpretation by the textbook’s author, but people are clearly unhappy with the language and there is already an effort underway to make school officials at Guyer High School aware of the discrepancy. A Texas blogger has also pointed out that the Denton ISD Board of Trustees meets on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. and is encouraging parents to show up and demand answers.

It should be noted that all of the amendments found in the Constitution are summarized in the referenced text. However, the other amendments don’t appear to have raised eyebrows.



David Corbin, PhD, a professor of politics at King’s College, told TheBlaze that the description of the Second Amendment is “incorrect.”

“The incorrect description of ‘the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia’ above makes one’s right dependent upon’s one’s membership in a state militia,” he said. “The founders believed, to quote William Blackstone, that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right ‘auxiliary to the natural right of resistance and self-preservation.’”

TheBlaze reached out to the Denton Independent School District regarding the textbook and received the following statement from Director of Communications and Community Relations Sharon Cox:

The main history book that is utilized in the Advanced Placement U.S. History class for juniors in Denton ISD is titled: American Pageant. This is a history book that has had a strong reputation for historical facts for many years. The American Pageant, the official textbook, gives the exact Bill of Rights.

The book in question, U.S. History: Preparing for Advanced Placement Exams, is a supplement instructional aid and not the official textbook for any history classes. In this supplement, it states that the following is a “summary statement.” The teachers and staff are aware of this “summary statement” and are teaching the amendments from the classroom textbook, American Pageant. The only approved textbook for these classes is American Pageant. All other materials are “supplemental.”

Please be assured that Denton ISD history teachers are disseminating the correct information on the Second Amendment.

Messages left with the publisher of the textbook have not been returned.

Upon further review of the book, authored by Dr. John Newman and Dr. John Schmalbach, TheBlaze also discovered another controversial passage on the American Revolution. The text asks the question: “THE REVOLUTION—RADICAL OR CONSERVATIVE?”

The authors call those who fought in the Revolutionary War “revolutionary mobs” and “American mobs.”

“In comparing the three revolutions, a few historians have concentrated on the actions of revolutionary mobs, such as the American Sons of Liberty. Again there are two divergent interpretations: (1) the mobs in all three countries engaged in the same radical activities, and (2) the American mobs had a much easier time of it than the French and Russian mobs, who encountered ruthless repression by military authorities,” the text reads.
The book also compares American Revolution fighters to the “guerrilla bands that fought in such countries as Cuba in the 1950s and Vietnam in the 1960s.”

Source: “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination”

Source: “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination”

Dr. Corbin again took issue with the description of the Americans who fought for independence in the Revolutionary War. He said there was “very little that was radical about the Revolutionary War if the author is employing post-modern parlance for the term.”

“The most powerful calls for revolution were forwarded upon a natural rights basis. Given that many a regime before and since had been instituted and maintained through the employment of force, one could only call the revolution radical if by radical one is paying deference to the Founders’ attempt to establish the regime upon ‘reflection and choice,’” he said, referencing the Federalist papers.

Corbin also noted that “all different types of imperfect people participated in the Revolutionary War,” but argued that “the power of ideas that drove the American revolution is what makes the American political revolution very different than its Russian and French counterparts.”

“Note that the two latter regimes had to continually employ force to keep their people (or subjects if you will) in check, both in war and in peace (often the peace of the silenced or the dead) that followed,” Corbin told TheBlaze. “In sum, whoever wrote this text is attempting to besmirch the American regime by making it the moral equivalent of all revolutionary regimes, which it certainly was not.”

Further, discussing the Boston Tea Party, the books states the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773 in an effort to “help the British East India Company out of its financial problems.”

When the company’s tea shipment came to the Boston harbor, “a group of Bostonians disguised themselves as Native Americans, boarded the British ships, and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.”

“While many applauded the Boston Tea Party as a justifiable defense of liberty, others thought the destruction of private property was far too radical,” the book reflects.

Source: “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination”

TheBlaze is still researching the book and trying to determine how widespread its use is in U.S. schools.

Initial research shows the textbook is currently being used at North Thurston High School in Lacey, Wash., and in Forsyth (Ga.) County Schools. The book was also used in the Summer of 2013 by the Social Studies Department at the DeKalb School of the Arts in Stone Mountain, Ga. Further, an online copy of the book is currently posted on the Conejo Valley Unified School District in California. You can read the pdf version of the book here.

It could be that many other schools across the country use the text book as well. TheBlaze is currently awaiting comment from several of the schools and districts mentioned above.

Another key question yet to be answered is: If the textbook is indeed a study guide for the “advanced placement exam,” does the exam also reflect the book’s content?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...ond-amendment/

Your Call to Action:

1. Visit their page @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guyer...s/190739797227and send then a message like the following:

"Hello, my name is _______________. I saw that your AP History course has issued a book titled, United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination. In this book, on page 102, the definition provided for the Second Amendment is incorrect and seems to be suggesting that only members of a State Militia are allowed to keep and bear arms. Who made the decision to use this text book? I'd like them to issue a public statement on this book's attempt to redefine the 2nd Amendment and why they chose to use it. We would also like this issue to be discussed at the next school board meeting. Please include it on the official agenda."

2. Call Guyer High School:

John H. Guyer High School
7501 Teasley Lane
Denton, TX 76210
P: 940-369-1000

3. If you live in the area or if you child attends this school, organize with your neighbors and storm the next school board meeting to demand answers.



From:
United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination

Publisher: Amsco School Publications; 2nd Revised edition (2010)
by John J. Newman (Author) , John M. Schmalbach (Author)

ISBN-10: 1567656609
ISBN-13: 978-1567656602