Thursday, July 28, 2011

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/26/School-board-removes-2-books-from-school/UPI-14161311710522/

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http://www.missourinet.com/2011/07/26/vonnegut-novel-banned-by-republic-schools/

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/c464b0da83a44b398767f248e7a47e0d/MO--Books-Banned-Republic/

http://www.boarddocs.com/mo/republic/Board.nsf/ab6bd8d56fbee98a8725731b0060c686/794cc122427e5cf28725770b006bdc0a/$FILE/Public%20Complaint%20Response%20%28Scroggins%29.pdf

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KEVIN CRAIG for Congress -- Christian Libertarian for Missouri's 7th Congressional District

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Kevin Craig is a Christian Anarchist campaigning for *Liberty Under God* in the race for U.S. Congress in Missouri's 7th District.

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KEVIN CRAIG for Congress -- Christian Libertarian for Missouri's 7th Congressional District

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Kevin Craig is a Christian Anarchist campaigning for *Liberty Under God* in the race for U.S. Congress in Missouri's 7th District.

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School board removes 2 books from school - UPI.com

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Republic, Mo., school district's board voted to remove two books from the high school.

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‎"The U.S. Christian Right project against Secular Humanism spearheaded by Lind, Weyrich, xenophobic demagogue Pat Buchanan and Christian Right conspiracist Tim LaHaye appears to be aimed at the political Left and US Democratic Party liberals, but dig deeper and it invokes antisemitic tropes among some readers."

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MO High School Bans ‘SlaughterHouse Five’ From Curriculum, Library Because Its Principles Are Contra

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On Monday at the Republic, MO school board meeting, four Republic School Board members reviewed a year-old complaint that three books are inappropriate reading material for high school children. In a 4-0 vote, the members decided to ax two of the three books from the high school curriculum and the l

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Mr. Scroggins did not present written documentation which outlined his observations. I took

notes during the course of the meeting and have done my best to capture his key concerns. My

synopsis of the meeting is organized around the three basic issues that Mr. Scroggins raised in

his written complaint. Dr. Cook has reviewed my comments to ensure their accuracy.

Complaint #1: “The school district uses textbooks that teach errors about American

history and government.”

According to Mr. Scroggins’ public complaint form, he believes the district should “discontinue

the use of textbooks and any materials that create false conceptions of American history and

government.” As support for his claims, Mr. Scroggins presented us with copies of the

documents listed below.

A. An excerpt (16 pages) from a grade 3 social studies textbook (“We the People”)

B. An excerpt (6 pages) from a grade 12 high school social studies textbook

C. A one page excerpt from a high school social studies textbook

Observations that Mr. Scroggins made from each document are highlighted below and have been

coded with an A, B, or C to indicate which document Mr. Scroggins referenced. District

responses follow his conclusions in blue text. Before proceeding further it should be noted that

(1) the district no longer uses the textbook “We the People”; and (2) to the best of our

knowledge, the one page excerpt is not a part of our current high school curriculum.

A.1. Mr. Scroggins took exception to a statement which referred to the United States as a

democracy. He noted that the founding fathers never intended for our country to be a

democracy; rather, they founded a republic.

Mr. Scroggins is correct. The founding fathers did establish our country as a republic.

They believed democracies were unworkable and potentially dangerous. However, it

should be noted that our country does have elements of a representative democracy. To

say that democracies and republics are opposites would not be accurate. There is, indeed,

some overlap. These distinctions are made for our students during the course of their

K-12 social studies experiences.

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A.2. Mr. Scroggins questioned whether or not students were capable of answering some of the

questions in the text. He cited four open ended questions on page 115 as examples.

Granted, elementary aged students cannot answer such questions in the same manner as

adults. However, elementary students are certainly capable of answering complex

thinking skills questions. While they may not fully comprehend abstract concepts at a

young age (e.g., the difference between a democracy and a republic), they are certainly

capable of grasping a beginning understanding of such concepts. As we continue to teach

these ideas to students during their K-12 experience in a progressively more complex

fashion, they eventually garner an understanding at a much higher level. All curriculum

areas (not just social studies) are taught in such a manner.

A.3. Mr. Scroggins took exception with the notation in the text that many of our freedoms are

protected by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. His contention was that the

Constitution does not guarantee any rights. God gives man these rights, not government.

He felt the book presented anti-Christian perspectives.

While I would certainly agree with Mr. Scroggins’ religious views on this matter, it is

also true that the founding fathers penned the Constitution to protect man’s rights. As a

public school, we are legally obligated to present the facts associated with our founding

fathers. Public school officials are constitutionally bound to avoid promoting our

personal religious beliefs. The Establishment Clause prohibits public school employees

from acting in ways that are inconsistent with the Lemon test, a test that was named after

the Supreme Court case which first identified these standards. Under the Lemon test,

educators’ actions must (1) have a primary secular purpose; (2) have primary effects that

neither advance nor inhibit religion; and (3) not result in excessive entanglement with

religion. While personally I agree with Mr. Scroggins' observations, I cannot legally

espouse such a position to children in a public school setting.

A.4. Mr. Scroggins contended that the caricature on page 117 was offensive to him as a

Christian. The cartoon pictured a man clothed in tattered garments, holding a

megaphone, and wearing a sandwich board sign containing the words, “The True Way.”

The caption for the cartoon read, “Does freedom of religion allow you to shout your

views in the middle of the night?” I understand what the author wanted students to

consider. However, I also agree with Mr. Scroggins that a less offensive picture would

be more appropriate. Screening teaching resources to avoid potentially offensive

language and pictures is something all educators consider as we review materials.

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to ensure that we can unequivocally avoid all

potentially offensive words and pictures given the quantity of materials we peruse and the

choices that are available to us. I can assure the board, however, that we will do our best

to screen teaching materials to protect all special interest groups from being portrayed in

a negative manner.

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A.5. Mr. Scroggins did not agree with the author’s choice of terminology. The author referred

to “general welfare” from the Preamble as “common welfare.” Mr. Scroggins believes

the term “common” is a socialistic term.

Mr. Scroggins did not object to any of the information in the text that defined what

“common welfare” meant. That would suggest to me that the author had no ill intent in

choosing the term “common” rather than “general.” The term “common” is regarded as

a synonym for “general” by the Merriam-Webster thesaurus. I believe the author simply

chose the word “common” because the term is easier for young students to understand.

The term “general” could, for many children, be a distracter (i.e., be interpreted as a

military term).

A.6. Mr. Scroggins repeated throughout his discussion of the elementary text that the author

presented a left wing bias. Furthermore, he noted that the text lent itself to the left wing

biases of teachers.

None of the examples that Mr. Scroggins shared indicated to me that there was a left

wing undercurrent in the text. I am very conservative in my political and religious views,

and I did not interpret the examples he cited in the same manner. The samples he

selected all seemed to me to simply be statements of fact. Granted, the text does not

promote any kind of moral perspective as Mr. Scroggins so desires. However, as noted

above, moral perspectives cannot be promulgated by adults in the public school setting.

Furthermore, Mr. Scroggins’ contention that teachers who instruct in public schools are

liberal in their thinking is unfounded. I asked him for specific comments teachers in our

district have made that would qualify as liberal. He could provide me with no such

examples. I know for a fact that we have many Christians serving in our school district.

B.1. Mr. Scroggins disagreed with a caption beneath a photo on page 542. He described the

second question posed by the authors as a left wing tactic.

The question beneath the photo stated, “How might it (nativity scene) be relocated or

changed to avoid coming into conflict with the First Amendment.” On this issue I would

agree with Mr. Scroggins; it appears the author may be leading students to a single

conclusion. If the first question only would have been included under the photo (i.e.,

“Does this seasonal display violate the separation of church and state?”), I speculate that

Mr. Scroggins would not have taken exception. Having said that, as I noted in my

response under A.4., sometimes it is difficult to find resources for every grade level and

every subject area that are completely devoid of any offensive reference for every special

interest group. I suspect that if other groups delved deep into every text used in

American classrooms they would find some references that would be offensive.

Nevertheless, we will do our best in future examinations to avoid selecting materials that

are offensive to any group.

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B.2. Mr. Scroggins took exception to several court cases that were mentioned in the text. He

contended that the courts have violated their Constitutional powers. He also noted that

this was not what God or the founding fathers intended.

While I may agree with Mr. Scroggins’ opinion on this matter, I see nothing inherently

wrong with the textual references to the court cases. Mr. Scroggins’ conclusion that

courts have violated their Constitution power is an opinion. In the text the author was

simply citing court cases that deal with the issue of freedom of religion. The author did

not appear to support a particular view on these decisions; he was simply reporting the

facts associated with the various cases.

C.1. Mr. Scroggins presented a single page out of a textbook which focused on Dorothy

Burlage, a woman who was deeply involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960s-

1970s. He was upset with the following sentence: “Her conservative Southern Baptist

parents taught her to believe in the brotherhood of man and also to conform to the

conservative values of her old slaveholding community.”

First, I would like to address the reference to slavery and Southern Baptists. In my study

on this subject I discovered that prior to the Civil War, there was only one Baptist

Convention. The issue of slavery divided the Northern and Southern Baptist Churches.

When it became evident that the Baptist convention was taking a stance in opposition to

slavery, the southern churches left the convention and formed the Southern Baptist

Convention. At the June 1995 Southern Baptist Convention, a Resolution on Racial

Reconciliation was adopted as part of the convention’s 150 year anniversary. One

component of this resolution noted, “…we lament and repudiate historic facts of evil such

as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest.” The convention voted on

June 20 to renounce its racist roots and apologize for its past defense of slavery.

Second, Dorothy Burlage penned in her own words that slavery was, indeed, a part of her

upbringing. In the 2000 book “Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom

Movement,” Ms. Burlage offers the description below of her childhood years.

It is painful to write about my growing up years, for doing so brings back

memories of the insidious world of racial segregation. Looking back, I can see

that is was my deep and loving childhood connection to black people in my

extended household and seeing how they were mistreated by the tradition of Jim

Crow that led me to commit my life to getting rid of segregation…Despite the

significant roles that black people played in my family, I was taught, like most

southern white children, the tradition of racial segregation and how to keep black

people at a distance, in a lesser status. (Chapter 3, pages 87-88)

Based on both of these issues (i.e., history of Southern Baptists and the actual words of

Dorothy Burlage), I believe the comment made by the author in question by Mr .Scroggins was accurate. Regardless, to the best of our knowledge, this document is not a

part of our high school social studies curriculum.

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Leslie Kinder You got it. That's why my comment about his disgusting religious agenda got me blocked from my governor's facebook page. Brownback is trying to turn Kansas into the evangelical state of Brownbackistan.

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Wah Cry Wah It's a movement that is sweeping all across America and especially the RED states.

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Brenda Harrison So much for freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sandra Skolnik I almost misread that as Christian Demonism; and maybe that is close to the truth when it comes to that right wing bunch.

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John Vitali Wah cry wah- there should be separation of Church and State PERIOD!


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