Advance Placement (AP) high school students will soon use an American History textbook that depicts President Trump as mentally ill and those who voted for him as poor white racists.
Though this kind of indoctrination is nothing new to the public school system, the book By the People: A History of the United States, illustrates how far the leftist propaganda machine will go to further its misinformation campaign.
The textbook, published by Pearson Education, describes Trump supporters as “mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white.” The last section of the textbook, ‘The Angry Election of 2016’ is especially critical of President Trump.
What its author never mentions is that the left, supported by the mainstream media, has made rage its main weapon in its war on Trump. Instead, the AP textbook depicts those who support Trump as angry and fearful. One paragraph reads:
“Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history …. They also worried about the mental stability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.”
With a typical “intellectual” progressive sleight of hand, the textbook calls the president insane, and those who voted for him deplorable without coming right out and saying it.
The book also says, “Most thought that Donald Trump was too extreme a candidate to win the nomination, but his extremism, his anti-establishment rhetoric, and, some said, his not very hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters.”
The truth is that “most” did not think Donald Trump to be too extreme. Outside of the far left coast and New York City, most of the rest of the country made it clear the extremism is not in the White House but with progressives as represented by Pearson Education.
Tarra Snyder, a student at Rosemount High School in Minnesota, who was one of the first students to raise concerns over the textbooks bias told Fox News, “There are specific parts where it goes off the rails from a historical textbook toward an op-ed.”
Snyder said she only wants to raise “red flag” so others will know that the textbook only reports one side of history. The high school student said, “I really believe that learning should be objective and that students can make their own decisions based on what they’re able to learn in a classroom, and if the facts are skewed then students aren’t able to make well-rounded decisions on what they believe.”
Scott Overland, a spokesman for Pearson Education, defended the textbook saying it was “developed by an expert author and underwent rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity.” He said the book is “designed to convey college-level information to high school students” while “aiming to promote debate and critical thinking by presenting multiple sides” of the 2016 election.
Joy Pullman of The Federalist warns of the dangers of this kind of textbook in public schools. She sees the new textbook as “overt propaganda” inflicted on teenage minds under the “guise of education.” Pullman adds, “Even if they don’t accept its messages entirely, studying this wastes time that young people deserve to be spending getting actually educated.”
Ronald Reagan said that “our most precious resources, our greatest hope for the future, are the minds and hearts of our people, especially our children. He also warned, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
In his 1989 farewell address, Reagan called for an “informed patriotism” that asks “are we doing a good enough job teaching our children” what America “represents in the long history of the world?”
Liberal education is doing its best to tear down everything built on that foundation. Students like Tarra Snyder want America to know that.
IT’s TP!! That’s all it’s good for…………………………. But using it for that would give you a rash because of the inferior ink..
put the text book in the trash burner do not let it get into circulation. As an ex teacher the text book had to be approved by school board and teachers fire the school board and teacher that let it come into the system.
Any school district that allows this trash to be taught in their school district should be charged as an attempt to over throw our government. These lies included in this socialist anti American propaganda pile of manure is not history or factual and is using our tax payor schools to spread this garbage. Hitler did the same that caused millions of lives to be lost.
I absolutely agree Danny Lanning
The book ‘By the People: A History of the United States,
illustrates how far the leftist propaganda machine will go to further its misinformation campaign.
The textbook, published by Pearson Education,
Should be banned across the world ..
We will not be purchasing the book at all
We will be looking for a new supplier of textbooks across the board..
TRUMP IS THE MOST STABLE PERSON I KNOW. IT COULD BE THE PERSON OR PERSONS WHO SAID TRUMP IS MENTALLY ILL, IS MENTALLY ILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE TO KNOW TRUMP TO TALK ABOUT TRUMP.
I AM WHITE AND NOT POOR. PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE DUMB AND STUPID AND SHOULD NEVER WRITE BOOKS.
Pearson Education, Are you STUPID or What? Or do you believe children with Advance Placement Are too Stupid to know they are being Brainwashed?
How does something like this even exist? History is not about what is happening right now. They already are using “was” and “were” when he is our President NOW. The person who wrote that book is completely and soundly deranged. Our country is falling apart and the only people holding it together are President Trump and some faithful Republicans working with him. It scares me! The liberals are never going to stop fighting for Power. And they want that power to turn our country into a socialistic nightmare with them in control. Trump is the only saving grace we have.
I’m not poor….. But I am really ANGRY that these anti-American people are brainwashing Our Children, that will mostly grow up not Knowing The Truth about Anything. Social-communism is nothing but a lie. We ALL NEED TO GET ANGRY.
The school administrators and teachers that allow or teach this kind of BS need or should be fired and never allowed to teach or indoctrinate again, this is like Nazi Germany happening in the USA! The schools across the USA has been indoctrinating the students with socialism going back to the eighties, I know, I dealt with the far left teachers when my children were going to school, people need to home school or send their children to private schools, but you’d better pay close attention to what your children are being taught.
insidious seepage of sick swampy thinking. who is this publisher? It used to be that a textbook had to sell in Texas if it was going to be published and distributed anywhere else in the country -volume purchases. So if it is there is must be elsewhere as well. school boards and other elected officials just do what staff advises. but they are not the elected representatives of the tax payers. who is paying attention to these issues on a local level. it reminds me of the warnings against communism in the 50’s – it creeps in everywhere.
President Trump needs to get his lawyers to sue this Publishing Company for defamation of Character and slander. This is bad and all of us who are white need to bring a lawsuit also. Who is with me????????
I’m with you. Yes at some point we are all going to have to get mad enough to take a stand
No wonder people are looking to Charter School for there Education.
MY KIDS WERE ADVANCED PLACEMENT. MANY OF THE BOOKS THEY STUDIED WERE PROPAGANDA MACHINES. APPARENTLY “SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE” MEAN NOTHING WHEN YOUR CHURCH IS MISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA. THE LIBERALS HAVE EMBRACED MARX’S VIEW OF BRAINWASHING THE YOUTH TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE STOP PRAYING FOR GUIDANCE AND GOD’S HELP DAILY. THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST IS EAGERLY AWAITING THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN AND CREATE TURMOIL
It’s a disgrace and should be corrected., waste of taxpayer money, and detrimental to the subject of History. Those that should be held accountable: textbook company, district school board, curriculum director and teachers that sat on this committee. Parents in this district should raise hell: get it on front page of newspapers, call a Fox News, file a law suites against the school district and School Superintendent, and the text book company. Make this case known to taxpayers across America.
Parents need to demand the textbook company refund all dollars involved in this multi – thousand dollar purchase and publically apologize for this scam in writing to school board and a copy to the major newspaper for publication.
If Pearson gets away with this their will be more if the same. This is exactly what Poland does with their young minds, Black Polish, communist Hitler influence, have the power in govt. Polish educational textbooks teach that Hitler won the war. Our very high IQ’d Polish exchange student went crazy when our American History teacher discussed the war, insisted Hitler won, cried, screamed, said we were teaching false propaganda and lying. He had his History Book shipped from Poland and to prove his idea was true . I had to find a Polish translator that could read Polish. THE HISTORY BOOK stated that Germany did win all the battles and the war , it also stated how Americans were cowards and went home with their tail between their legs. My father, a Normandy Beach Vet sure set him straight! This student had private, elite education, from a wealthy family, drove a new Mercedes Bentz, and though it was ok for factory workers in Poland to make $1 per hour, women to be sub- serviant to men, and okay for women to stand in line to buy food a few meals at a time to put in an ice- box. If this isn’t an example of Impressible I don’t know what is….. should not happen to American youth at tax payers expense! Retired educator here, teacher, principal every level, School Superintendent.. 35 years of seeing crap and fighting to educate students and make them independent thinkers and decision makers. If you care send letters to that school board about how you feel m there is no place for liberalism and left-wing rhetoric in public schools!
I don’t like for our government to get involved but these leftist people r trying their best to rewrite history and this has to be stopped.If this is what is being taught in just some schools, we r in trouble.
How can the uneducated profess to teach other out of their ignorance? I am very well educated with advanced degrees, well over Genius– and Caucasian. I served as a Combat Correspondent in Vietnam, understand the press and am well-traveled. The folks who wrote that part about Trump are displaying their ignorance, a lack of tolerance and Humility. I’ll BET they do not attend ANY church either as that would have furnished a moral and ethical foundation for their beliefs–obviously a lacking in their belief systems. I term such beings as “unwashed.”
“Cain’t lead where you ain’t been.”
Sue the socks off all involved in this insidious coup. The left needs to learn a very harsh lesson. True Americans will not be coerced, bullied, cajoled or LIED to. God, Country, Traditional Family. Take your Godless BS leftists and sell it elsewhere.
Degrading my last name by printing these liberal biased textbooks to indoctrinate snowflakes of today. How sad and demeaning to our country!
It appears that the state of Minnesota has been chosen to be the breeding ground for a subversive movement to destroy the USA. One that believes in a completely different philosophy than this country was founded on and still continues to try, very hard, to continue. The USA is the last of the free super powers who stand in the way of this movement.
The result of this kind of indoctrination can be seen today on college campuses all across America. When a conservative speaker arrives on campus, he or she is frequently greeted with demonstrations (often violent) which cause the speech to be cancelled by administrators (for SAFETY reasons…of course, no one could accuse those administrators of suppressing FREE SPEECH because they are LIBERALS). Students demand safe spaces where they won’t be exposed to different points of view. And leftists insist they’re not suppressing free speech, only HATE speech (which THEY get to define). The result is a large number of college students and graduates who display an appalling lack of knowledge of history, economics, politics and Constitutional Law. Media darling AOC is a PERFECT example of such a person. May God help this country if they gain control of it!!
Cultural Marxism k thru grad school
Reliable sources report, Scott Overland, is a PEDOPHILE, how do you parents feel now?
From all appearances this new “History Book” was written by a total liar and probably a member of the Communist Party. It should be discarded as a POS.
What politician is ahead of this state. Can you really think that they are only involved in politics?
President Trump is one of the best things to happen to the USA in a long time. And we, his supporters, are NOT racists! Exact opposite! How can people be so clueless?!
https://www.pearson.com/us/contact-us.html
Maybe we should all contact them….I wonder why there is no contact phone number on their website….hmmmmm
Then when these students go to college 75 percent of the faculty hold leftist views so their brainwashing continues.and they hesitate to entertain a position contrary to the majority of their peers and faculty.
I think the entire state of Minnesota is plain out nuts. Trump is very stable
Most college students are as ignorant as dirt and the progressive left wants them that way! Education in America from kindergarten through Ph.D. has been propagandized and manipulated to produce nonthinking voters programmed to view socialism in a favorable light.
That has been the left’s plan since the 1880s and 90s. Look up John Dewey, he spelled out the left’s intention of dumbing down the citizens because informed citizens would not buy into their socialist utopia.
The N.E.A. during the 1920s & 30s boasted they were the largest Marxist, Leninist org. in the U.S. and boasted how they were using the ruse of education to collapse the entire fabric of U.S. Society.
A hundred years ago high school graduates did a far better job of teaching in one room school houses than today’s teaching college grads do with all kinds of assistance. In 1915 the literacy rate was 97%, now it is less than 40%.
With ever greater government control the worse the education imparted to our youth.
The answer is to end the department of education entirely and then handcuff the state level departments of education. Perhaps a ban on hiring teaching school grads. Yes, some school districts will shortchange their students almost as much as the current system does. Overall the United States will shoot back to the top where we belong.
Nearly all universities and colleges are intent on maintaining the ignorance that carries over from the public school system. This has been carefully orchestrated by the progressive left for many decades as an informed citizenry will not buy their ideology and agenda.
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