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This stuff is getting to be a regular occurrence in northern Virginia:
Its getting hot in the school board meetings.
Its getting hot in the school board meetings.
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For some reason, as improbable as this might seem, people raised in Communist regimes are the least equipped to cope with the challenges of pluralistic society. -
Teachers and government brain washed them all their life..Now the same thing is happening here!Comment
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Ray gets it,
They can like our ways better than Communism as adults, but that doesn't automatically wipe away the bad habits taught in their youth, like a belief that every problem has an obvious answer.Comment
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I think you are over thinking itComment
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Yep, and its condescending as well.
I'll bet she got more education about the basics of citizenship in a free society studying for her Naturalization Test than a lot of kids do in High School. More than that, she knows what she left and what she's got here. The fact that she's speaking frankly in front of a hostile school board shows she has the free society thing down pretty well.Comment
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The last paragraph in that article is a condemnation of the parents. I knew what was being taught, and my son's teachers knew that I reviewed their materials. Excepting for a few .... laz.. teacher, his were good, and sound. He learned more about American History than did I in the 70s schools.
TommyComment
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I'm not sure ya'll are on the same page. I'm guessing Lyman and Togor don't get together at four to discuss moderator stuff.
The communism escapee is a little warped from her early experience. But now she shows up and immediately wants to criticize the gov or supers here. So; I knew a guy who left Cuba. He was a little wound up too. But maybe no more than any other male American. Any kind of authority set him off. Not much unlike the guys I went to meetings with. It was oppose everything right off. But, I'm all for conservative(not throwing stuff) debate by normal grownups be it demo, liberal or repub. Heck I'd listen to queers if they don't show up in dresses.Last edited by dryheat; 06-11-2021, 11:48.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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I'm not a Democratic Party shill,
re the warped part, she may be , having been indoctrinated (maybe) since she was a child to accept the China Communist Party as the power that be,
however she has learned as a Citizen here, that she can criticize the powers that be (in this case a school board) over what she apparently sees as overreach and what she grew up with back in China,
it's her Right,,Comment
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What they're basically saying is that people can't learn from experience.
They're wrong.Comment
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here is another one,, not from VA,
As American educational institutions continue to be called into question, a North Korean defector fears the United States' future "is as bleak as North Korea" after she attended one of the country's most prestigious universities.
Yeonmi Park has experienced plenty of struggle and hardship, but she does not call herself a victim.
One of several hundred North Korean defectors settled in the United States, Park, 27, transferred to Columbia University from a South Korean university in 2016 and was deeply disturbed by what she found.
"I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think," Park said in an interview with Fox News. "I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying."
Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness.
Yeonmi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school.
During orientation, she was scolded by a university staff member for admitting she enjoyed classic literature such as Jane Austen.
"I said ‘I love those books.’ I thought it was a good thing," recalled Park.
"Then she said, 'Did you know those writers had a colonial mindset? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.’"Comment
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