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Title: “Decolonizing the Curriculum”: Schools Get New ‘Correct’ World Maps Claiming to Show America’s ‘True’ (Smaller) Size
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Daily Sheeple
URL Source: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/deco ... ricas-true-smaller-size_032017
Published: Mar 22, 2017
Author: Piper McGowan
Post Date: 2017-03-23 09:38:38 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1424
Comments: 16
According to the Boston Globe, some 600 schools around the area and across the US have been teaching kids a purposefully distorted, incorrect view of what the planet looks like that’s hundreds of years old. Now public schools in Boston will be receiving new, “correct” maps because, “The world maps that have hung on school walls in Boston and around the country portray North America as larger than Africa (but it’s not) and Alaska as more mammoth than Mexico (also untrue).” This is what the planet supposedly actually looks like (and no, it has not been squished inward): The maps in Boston classrooms prior to this new Peters World Map were from 1569, made by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, and apparently presented warped continents and countries enlarged in ways that simply aren’t true in reality. The Globe goes on to suggest that perhaps colonialism was the cause of hundreds of years of distorted maps and teaching kids an incorrect view of the planet they live on: The map exchange is part of the district’s effort to “decolonize the curriculum” within the next three years, said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent in charge of the Boston Public Schools’ Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps. A goal of the office is to eliminate structural bias and inequality within the school system while ensuring that what students learn in the classroom is culturally competent. Meanwhile, Boston Public Schools just admitted that any child receiving a public education in their district and probably the majority of this country in the past century has not been taught what Earth actually looks like in school. How crazy is that? Talk about the literal dumbing down of America…
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Well, we certainly don't want to give the little African-American kiddies an inferiority complex, now would we? When does the pandering stop? Because I go gotta gotta tell ya, it ain't workin'.
Yeah, let's just keep feeding schoolkids lies, right paulsen? North America: 9.54 million mi² Africa: 11.73 million mi² This isn't about raciism you ignorant tool. "The map exchange is part of the district’s effort to “decolonize the curriculum” within the next three years, said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent in charge of the Boston Public Schools’ Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps. A goal of the office is ... ensuring that what students learn in the classroom is culturally competent." I said nothing about race. But it sure does look like culture-ism, doesn't it? Nothing in there about striving for map accuracy. Here's my recommendation: Buy a world globe.
He's probably one of the flat earth types. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Looks like another victim just weighed in. Talk about the literal dumbing down of America… Dontcha know that Africa is SO BIG the rest of the Earths land masses can fit inside it?
Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
Africa: 11.73 million mi² Including Canada and Mexico. USA is 3,796,742 sq miles about the same as China.
Decktard don't need no steenkin books. Decktard has narcotics to help him dumb down, and they've done a fine job of it. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Deckard say he tell Stone he don’t take drugs no mo….but the continued shakes from witdrauual is a bitch.
saw that map makes things long and skinny but it's a matter of perspective, I've always wondered why the southern hemisphere is smaller than the northern or why Greenland is bigger than Australia but I have never thought of Russia as this map portrays it. The old map was Eurocentric when it was drawn and it is hard to see the centre of this one, perhaps it's Africa. I really like the composite map it shows how all the continents fit together and better informs
Try reading a book sometime yourself, or better yet - an accurate map. It's funny watching you idjits deny the facts. You're like those who erroneously claimed that the sun revolves around the earth. Decktard has narcotics to help him dumb down, You must be on LSD to keep living in your own alternate reality and believing the crap you do. Try using a globe. You get triggered by the results of projecting a 3D sphere onto a 2D flat surface, you really need a globe. First you SJW's get triggered by words, now you get triggered by maps. Decktards trying to eliminate maps and books that trigger them, nothing new about that. No wonder you need narcotics to help you visualize a new reality. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Oh - I'm not the one apparently being "triggered" here Bubba. SJW? Is that some sort of Trump cult code word for "anyone not with us"? Wow and you call me a nazi for pointing out that you are an idiot? Good grief - why is it that you Trump cultists use the same tired and trite phrases over and over? Is using an accurate map that shows America's actual size going to make America less great or something? You clowns need to get some new material. Alcoholic DT's again shit for brains? Living proof that size doesn't matter.
You've gone full blown SJW, you need to be teaming up with Trigglypuff, Carl the Cuck and AIDS Skrillex. LMAO how the Mercator projection has you triggered. It is obviously an emotional issue for you, just buy a globe damn it and spare us all of your SJW cackling. Your SJW map causes too much distortion in the higher latitudes, so that Greenland and Russia are distorted out of size. Buy an effin globe idiot, if you want to see it distorted just smoke some of your meth. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
"portray North America as larger than Africa (but it’s not)"
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
(Edited)
Well, we certainly don't want to give the little African-American kiddies an inferiority complex, now would we?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
(Edited)
"This isn't about raciism you ignorant tool."
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
Here's my recommendation: Buy a world globe.
#5. To: nativist nationalist (#4)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: Deckard (#5)
#7. To: Deckard (#2)
(Edited)
North America: 9.54 million mi²
#8. To: Deckard (#5)
Talk about the literal dumbing down of America…
#9. To: nativist nationalist (#8)
Decktard don't need no steenkin books. Decktard has narcotics to help him dumb down, and they've done a fine job of it.
#10. To: A Pole (#7)
(Edited)
#11. To: nativist nationalist (#8)
Decktard don't need no steenkin books
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#12. To: Deckard (#11)
Try reading a book sometime yourself, or better yet - an accurate map.
#13. To: nativist nationalist (#12)
(Edited)
First you SJW's get triggered by words, now you get triggered by maps.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#14. To: Gatlin (#9)
the continued shakes from witdrauual is a bitch.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#15. To: jeremiad (#6)
"Dontcha know that Africa is SO BIG the rest of the Earths land masses can fit inside it?"
#16. To: Deckard (#13)
Is using an accurate map that shows America's actual size going to make America less great or something?
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