This is my first diary EVER so please bear with me and please help me with tags if you can.
The other day, an acquaintance posted a concern to Facebook. Our public high school, being led by civic-minded people, has offered students an opportunity to participate in mock elections on Tuesday. At least one teacher in the Social Studies department and the school librarians, with the participation of at least two AP Government students, produced a document to provide our high school students with information about the presidential candidates so they are prepared for the mock elections Tuesday. This document was presented to the students in their first block classes last week and they were encouraged to take the information home and read it to prepare. I will share the document in three pages below the orange whippedy-do.
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(I'm not sure if I've embedded the images correctly. So I guess I will see when I publish the diary. Right now they seem to be links rather than pictures of the pages. I welcome any help with corrections if they're needed.)
On page 1, I deleted the name of the school and the names of the faculty involved because for the purpose of this diary they are irrelevant.
I was shocked and disappointed to see what passes for AP level material at our school. I can’t believe that the teacher and two librarians let this pass as accurate and appropriate information to disseminate to the whole school. The obvious biases aside, this looks like something produced by third graders. Even the layout and font size and type seem to show a bias. The parent who shared this with the Facebook group told me that others saw this as factually biased against their candidate whomever they were supporting. It seems there was no attempt here at all to present something unbiased, either factually or visually.
The parent who alerted the Facebook group is planning to make a complaint at the next school board meeting but that will be too late to correct anything. I plan on calling the school on Monday to ask for a different version to be circulated to the students... one that is at least visually not so biased, and preferably more factually complete and accurate. I doubt I will get anywhere, but want to give it a try anyway.
What would you do if you were a parent at this school?
Sat Nov 03, 2012 at 10:22 PM PT: It appears that I haven't posted the images so they are readable, but I don't know how to do this correctly. Could someone please reach out and help me with this? The images are really the most important part.
Sat Nov 03, 2012 at 10:51 PM PT: Thank you all for the support in getting the images a little larger. I am reading a how-to by Horace right now to see if i can do any better.