Thread: 8th Grade Class Receives Immigration Assignment that Leaves One Dad Shaking His Head

8th Grade Class Receives Immigration Assignment that Leaves One Dad Shaking His Head

By Joseph Perticone (3 hours ago) | Culture, Education, Politics


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At Shattuck Middle School in Wisconsin, one 8th grade class was assigned homework on the topic of immigration policy in the United States.

The homework, assigned by 8th grade Social Studies teacher Grace Davis, featured a political cartoon with a clearly labeled Democrat laying bricks to convey the building of a “pathway to citizenship,” while the Republican labeled character is removing the bricks, effectively dismantling any immigration process. The cartoon is originally from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, not the Teacher’s own creation.

Source: Bennett / Chattanooga Times Free Press

The assignment then directs the children to fill out a series of questions about immigration policy, using the cartoon as a reference. The homework assignment asks:

1. Who are the men in the picture (What is their job? Look at what they are doing for a hint)
2. What are they building?
3. What do the symbols on their shirts represent?
4. What is action being done by each man?
5. What might this mean to us about immigration and citizenship?

An 8th grade boy at Shattuck returned home with the assignment and showed it to his father, Scott Radies. Radies showed IJReview the homework, and expressed his concern about his child being taught fairly and objectively:

“I flipped it over to see if the opposite view was maybe on the other side of the homework assignment, but there’s nothing, just one side of paper.”

But Radies became concerned with the content of the assignment when he realized how it was graded.

“When I saw his answers to the questions, and realized that the teacher gave him five out of five so apparently those answers that he gave were the ones she was looking for because he got them all right,” Radies said, adding, “The fact that the way that she structured the questions and then rewarded them with five out of five, I thought ‘wow,’ it definitely looks like she wanted a certain answer… The whole thing was ridiculous I thought.”

He discussed his frustration with the explanation of the assignment:

She said that she was just trying to expose them to other views and I said ‘well, some of the things that my son has been hearing in your class, it doesn’t seem like you’re giving the other view’ and she said, ‘well, the semester’s not over.'”

Jim Strick, the Communications Director for the Neenah Joint School District, confirmed to IJ Review that Davis did in fact assign the politically-charged worksheet. However, Strick was adamant that the assignment was not intended to shape the children’s political views. He said:

“It was basically a skill-building unit for reading and understanding a political cartoon. It was basically the simplest cartoon that [Davis] could find for an eighth-grade level as far as understanding the concept of a political cartoon.”

This comes on the heels of an assignment from another Wisconsin school, which gave students a quiz that suggested conservative Republicans do not want to ‘help the poor’.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/2493...paign=Politics

We're spending time on teaching 8th graders who can barely read and write it seems from the paper test's answers how to interpret an adult political cartoon? Really?

We so need to pass vouchers so we can privatize our educational system, reduce our costs and improve our results.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

8th Grade Class Receives Immigration Assignment that Leaves One Dad Shaking His Head



By Joseph Perticone (3 hours ago) | Culture, Education, Politics


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At Shattuck Middle School in Wisconsin, one 8th grade class was assigned homework on the topic of immigration policy in the United States.

The homework, assigned by 8th grade Social Studies teacher Grace Davis, featured a political cartoon with a clearly labeled Democrat laying bricks to convey the building of a “pathway to citizenship,” while the Republican labeled character is removing the bricks, effectively dismantling any immigration process. The cartoon is originally from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, not the Teacher’s own creation.

Source: Bennett / Chattanooga Times Free Press

The assignment then directs the children to fill out a series of questions about immigration policy, using the cartoon as a reference. The homework assignment asks:

1. Who are the men in the picture (What is their job? Look at what they are doing for a hint)
2. What are they building?
3. What do the symbols on their shirts represent?
4. What is action being done by each man?
5. What might this mean to us about immigration and citizenship?

An 8th grade boy at Shattuck returned home with the assignment and showed it to his father, Scott Radies. Radies showed IJReview the homework, and expressed his concern about his child being taught fairly and objectively:

“I flipped it over to see if the opposite view was maybe on the other side of the homework assignment, but there’s nothing, just one side of paper.”

But Radies became concerned with the content of the assignment when he realized how it was graded.

“When I saw his answers to the questions, and realized that the teacher gave him five out of five so apparently those answers that he gave were the ones she was looking for because he got them all right,” Radies said, adding, “The fact that the way that she structured the questions and then rewarded them with five out of five, I thought ‘wow,’ it definitely looks like she wanted a certain answer… The whole thing was ridiculous I thought.”

He discussed his frustration with the explanation of the assignment:

She said that she was just trying to expose them to other views and I said ‘well, some of the things that my son has been hearing in your class, it doesn’t seem like you’re giving the other view’ and she said, ‘well, the semester’s not over.'”

Jim Strick, the Communications Director for the Neenah Joint School District, confirmed to IJ Review that Davis did in fact assign the politically-charged worksheet. However, Strick was adamant that the assignment was not intended to shape the children’s political views. He said:

“It was basically a skill-building unit for reading and understanding a political cartoon. It was basically the simplest cartoon that [Davis] could find for an eighth-grade level as far as understanding the concept of a political cartoon.”

This comes on the heels of an assignment from another Wisconsin school, which gave students a quiz that suggested conservative Republicans do not want to ‘help the poor’.

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WHAT THE HELL IS THIS( IN THE 8 GRADE THE TEACHER DON'T KNOW ANY THING POLIITICS OUR GRAND DAUGHTER IS IN THE 12
GRADE & NEVER CAME HOME WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT JUDY YOUR 100 % RIGHT

The main product of America's public schools today are socialist democrat voters. The reason our children are underperforming compared to the rest of the world, when our students were once the best on the globe, is because the focus in the classroom becomes socialist political propoganda more than reading, writing, and arithmatic.

Every aspect of American society, government, and culture has been infiltrated and compromised by global socialism that is conducting a war on boys, Christians, whites, conservatives, and Americans of all demographics loyal to the Constitution and founding principles of America.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

The main product of America's public schools today are socialist democrat voters. The reason our children are underperforming compared to the rest of the world, when our students were once the best on the globe, is because the focus in the classroom becomes socialist political propoganda more than reading, writing, and arithmatic.

Every aspect of American society, government, and culture has been infiltrated and compromised by global socialism that is conducting a war on boys, Christians, whites, conservatives, and Americans of all demographics loyal to the Constitution and founding principles of America.

W

AMEN!

If we want our kids to perform better, we need to return to teaching the 3 Rs and forget the indoctrination! That indoctrination is the best reason I know to homeschool your kids. Thank God, He pushed me into homeschooling mine!! It's not easy and it requires a lot of sacrifice financially and otherwise, but it is well worth it.

BTW, it is very easy to teach both sides of the issue on that political cartoon, if you understand both sides. Many teachers today don't, and have no clue!