American is Un-American

Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Todd W

RETRACTION – See comments for this post. Updated 5/24/06

FURTHER UPDATE – It seems others have the same thought I did about the reliability of the Detroit Free Press.

No, it isn’t California, and the Ninth Circuit has nothing to do with it.

In perhaps a well-intentioned, but pernicious example of political correctness, the Michigan Department of Education is attempting to ban the “America” and “American” from our public schools….Even though the word “America” appears in the department’s own civics and government benchmarks, the department’s style protocol for the Michigan Education Assessment Program requires that “America” and “Americans” be expunged from our testing and grade level expectations. Last week, the department ordered that our hard-working teachers not utter the words.

What more is there to say?

Filed under: Politics

2 Responses to “American is Un-American”

  1. Chris Gidman, on May 24th, 2006 at Said:

    This response from the Michigan Department of Education seems to say otherwise.
    State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan says:

    We are not seeking to do away with the terms ‘America’ or ‘American’ from classroom instruction, It’s not going to happen. I consider myself an American. We live in the United States of America. We are citizens of the United States of America. But the vernacular is that we’re Americans.

    Please double-check your sources.

    Chris.

  2. Todd W, on May 24th, 2006 at Said:

    Thanks for the information! It is funny, really. Usually when I get a story from a blog, I go out and cross check it to make sure it is real. This one came from the Detroit Free Press, so I figured I can trust a major newspaper.

    HAH!

    Serves me right.

    I’ve noted the post as retracted, and I hereby apologize to anyone who read it.

    I welcome corrections. I want to get things right. After all, I don’t want to be CBS.

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