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Prison Planet – December 30 2005:
Children in Washington State are being given ‘Patriotism tests’ which are completely unrelated to their studies. The paper gauges whether or not the student shows fealty to the power of the state and whether the student believes in the right to overthrow a corrupt government.
Bizarre stuff. I hope this turns out to be an isolated incident or a joke. Utterly scary if true.
Pat, in retrospect you are correct. But we just loved that picture!
“In all honesty this is a liberal blog. They do allow posts with other views. but mostly to riducule them”
Don’t I know that, but still I try and put my view forward as much as possible even though I’m in the minority here.
One: Much ado about nothing…I think that’s a famous quote by some one famous, I’ve no idea who, my education in the reform schools was lacking.
Two: Americans will argue with a stop sign, and frequently do; check the highway fatality rates.
Three: Although there is a certain degree of rot in American society, it’s not just us, the whole world is going quietly dotty as the awful truth of petroleum depletion sinks in.
What the hell were we talking about?
A google search for “Politics, Patriotism, and Protest Opinionnaire” reveals this “quiz” in lots and lots of places. Many of them are used to generate discussion for the play Julious Caesar and to try to understand if the actions in the play were justified or not (I don’t want to spoil a 300+ year old play based on centuries older events!)
So teachers ARE giving the test! …just not for the reasons that the conspiracy people suggest. Of course just because the intended context is for Julius Caesar doesn’t mean that every teacher uses it for that reason…
“teyecoon, what, i wonder, leads you to believe that the book “1984″, first published in 1949, is nonfiction? besides your unremarkable credulity?”
Paul, my boo boo as I meant fiction but since the book is about the “future”, you can never really be sure that it won’t have a basis in reality.
BTW, “credulity”? I didn’t say the article was true so your really stretching to justify this.