Update: High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment

[Black_Label]

Is this actually true...seems awfully dumb...like RW history books...

Let's see...progressives fuck up the Constitution to indoctrinate schoolkids with their bullshit...and it's CONSERVATIVE'S fault.

Go be stupid somewhere else with Black_Label. You two can get lost together.

The democrats honor and uphold the constitution, the right wing pieces of shit like to cherry pick certain parts, then twist, and shit on the rest.

 

[tinydancer]

Holy toledo. This prep book is just one of many by this publishing company.

Amsco School Publications. Check it out. Odds are Texas State Board of Ed aren't the only ones who approved this book.

AMSCO is dedicated to providing high quality, inexpensive textbooks and support materials to the educational community. Our course texts, review, and test prep books reflect national and state standards for curriculum and assessment. We offer a growing list of books aligned to both the intent and the specifics of the Common Core State Standards. In addition to answer keys, many of our titles are accompanied by Teachers' Manuals, which provide lesson plans and suggestions for instruction.

AMSCO's reputation has always been that of a provider of content rich, competitively priced, classroom useable materials.

Amsco School Publications | LinkedIn

I'll look into the authors and the distribution system tomorrow.

 

[Care4all]

the First Amendment is WRONG in this text as well, and I didn't even check the other amendments of 3-10...

What the heck....?

Could this pic of the page of the book be photoshopped? I am beginning to wonder...?

 

[francoHFW]

Texas and other loudmouth idiot red states are the lowest common denominator for publishers of textbooks- that's how kids are getting dumber everywhere....

 

[francoHFW]

Is this actually true...seems awfully dumb...like RW history books...

Let's see...progressives fuck up the Constitution to indoctrinate schoolkids with their bullshit...and it's CONSERVATIVE'S fault.

Go be stupid somewhere else with Black_Label. You two can get lost together.

a- example, dupe...Oh, THIS- not progressives, and just plain dumb interpretation...

b- stupid talking points and insults, impressive...

 

[Pogo]

Update: High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment

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. The 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th are also misinterpreted as several commenters below pointed out.

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."

Did you catch the sleight of hand?

A militia is a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies. It's a common man army of citizens, NOT soldiers. The citizens are called up in emergencies to protect the free State.

The 2nd Amendment says that a militia is necessary to protect a free State, so in order to be able to have a militia, the citizens have a natural right to keep and bear arms and the government cannot infringe on that right.

The textbook version implies that we're only allowed to keep and bear arms if we're in a State militia, a clear misrepresentation of the 2nd Amendment.​

Progressives lie. All the time.

This is an unabashed and shameful editing of the 2nd Amendment. I am quite surprised to see that the high school which has these textbooks for their students is located in Denton, Texas. Texans should know better than this!

Bullshit.

It's a paraphrase. They're all paraprhased (all that are visible), translating 18th century English into modern speech.

By the way you realize that the comma after "Militia" (in the original) makes no grammatical sense, right? That is, with the comma intact it does NOT say that a well-regulated militia IS necessary to the security of a free state. It would say that were the comma not there. As it is it's two dependent clauses swimming around independenty.

So much for literal readings.

My stars and little fishes, some of y'all will swallow any conspiracy theory no matter how cheap.

 

[Papageorgio]

Let's see...progressives fuck up the Constitution to indoctrinate schoolkids with their bullshit...and it's CONSERVATIVE'S fault.

Go be stupid somewhere else with Black_Label. You two can get lost together.

The democrats honor and uphold the constitution, the right wing pieces of shit like to cherry pick certain parts, then twist, and shit on the rest.

Kid, stay off the drugs.

No kidding, he is really fucked up tonight.

 

[Black_Label]

The democrats honor and uphold the constitution, the right wing pieces of shit like to cherry pick certain parts, then twist, and shit on the rest.

Kid, stay off the drugs.

No kidding, he is really fucked up tonight.

The patriot act, DHS, TSA, forced ultrasounds, forced religion in schools, attacks on marriage freedom, the war on women against what they can do with their own bodies, attacks on the 1st amendment with censorship, and the list goes on.

The GOP sure loves the constitution!

 

[Papageorgio]

Kid, stay off the drugs.

No kidding, he is really fucked up tonight.

The patriot act, DHS, TSA, forced ultrasounds, forced religion in schools, attacks on marriage freedom, the war on women against what they can do with their own bodies, attacks on the 1st amendment with censorship, and the list goes on.

The GOP sure loves the constitution!

Thanks for the confirmation on how fucked up you are tonight.

 

[Sunshine]

You might want to look beyond Texas:

Texas originally acquired its power over the nation’s textbook supply because it paid 100 percent of the cost of all public school textbooks, as long as the books in question came from a very short list of board-approved options. The selection process “was grueling and tension-filled,” said Julie McGee, who worked at high levels in several publishing houses before her retirement. “If you didn’t get listed by the state, you got nothing.” On the other side of the coin, David Anderson, who once sold textbooks in the state, said that if a book made the list, even a fairly mediocre salesperson could count on doing pretty well. The books on the Texas list were likely to be mass-produced by the publisher in anticipation of those sales, so other states liked to buy them and take advantage of the economies of scale.

“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks,” said Dan Quinn, who worked as an editor of social studies textbooks before joining the Texas Freedom Network, which was founded by Governor Ann Richards’s daughter, Cecile, to counter the religious right.

How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us by Gail Collins | The New York Review of Books

 

[Darkwind]

This is going to continue and get worse unless you people are willing to take these people to court.

This is not a first Amendment issue. The school system has no right to use text books that are outright lies about the Constitution.

If they were honest brokers of education, they simply would have used the exact wording of the Bill of Rights instead of a poor interpretation.

 

[Darkwind]

Update: High School AP History Book Rewrites 2nd Amendment

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. The 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th are also misinterpreted as several commenters below pointed out.

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."

Did you catch the sleight of hand?

A militia is a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies. It's a common man army of citizens, NOT soldiers. The citizens are called up in emergencies to protect the free State.

The 2nd Amendment says that a militia is necessary to protect a free State, so in order to be able to have a militia, the citizens have a natural right to keep and bear arms and the government cannot infringe on that right.

The textbook version implies that we're only allowed to keep and bear arms if we're in a State militia, a clear misrepresentation of the 2nd Amendment.​

Progressives lie. All the time.

This is an unabashed and shameful editing of the 2nd Amendment. I am quite surprised to see that the high school which has these textbooks for their students is located in Denton, Texas. Texans should know better than this!

Bullshit.

It's a paraphrase. They're all paraprhased (all that are visible), translating 18th century English into modern speech.

By the way you realize that the comma after "Militia" (in the original) makes no grammatical sense, right? That is, with the comma intact it does NOT say that a well-regulated militia IS necessary to the security of a free state. It would say that were the comma not there. As it is it's two dependent clauses swimming around independenty.

So much for literal readings.

My stars and little fishes, some of y'all will swallow any conspiracy theory no matter how cheap.

IT is an inaccurate paraphrase of the 2nd.

The 2nd says no such thing. But if you understood English, you'd know that.

Learn something.

A Primer on the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms

 

[Alfalfa]

Weird, the pic indicates this is a prep book for taking an AP test, not a classroom textbook.

 

[kaz]

Textbook version: "The people have a right to keep and bear arms in a state militia."

The People felt it was important to ensure that in the Constitution, which limits government power, that the government couldn't infringe on the right of government to have guns. Doesn't that make sense to you Dave? Hmm...me either...

 

[kaz]

The democrats honor and uphold the constitution

 

[JakeStarkey]

Exposing children to fundamentalist religious teaching is child abuse, many believe.

Shaddap, stupid kid.

It's a school night. What are you still doing up, boy?

And daveman was obviously one of the more abused.

He has trouble concentrating and most of his posts are internally inconsistent and not to the point, such as the one above.

 

[Pogo]

This is an unabashed and shameful editing of the 2nd Amendment. I am quite surprised to see that the high school which has these textbooks for their students is located in Denton, Texas. Texans should know better than this!

Bullshit.

It's a paraphrase. They're all paraprhased (all that are visible), translating 18th century English into modern speech.

By the way you realize that the comma after "Militia" (in the original) makes no grammatical sense, right? That is, with the comma intact it does NOT say that a well-regulated militia IS necessary to the security of a free state. It would say that were the comma not there. As it is it's two dependent clauses swimming around independenty.

So much for literal readings.

My stars and little fishes, some of y'all will swallow any conspiracy theory no matter how cheap.

IT is an inaccurate paraphrase of the 2nd.

The 2nd says no such thing. But if you understood English, you'd know that.

Learn something.

A Primer on the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Yeah I know it doesn't. That's what I just said.

Read something.

 

[Polk]

You realize the reading you guys are arguing for deletes half the text of the amendment, right?

 

[BlindBoo]

What is it about the word "Summary" that you don't understand?

 

[The2ndAmendment]

We need a civil war so bad to weed out all the leftist Un-American socialist.

It would be blood well let

-Geaux

First thing to do is seize the NSA spy center to reveal who they all are.

Give them 48 months to leave the country, after that they face arrest and trial for treason.