Utopia Talk / Politics / 16,000 errors in school books

Paramount Member	Mon May 09 08:30:53 Israel's textbooks in Arabic are full of mistakes, study finds A new study finds more than 16,000 mistakes; now the authors want to see the Education Ministry after school. Anyone who examines textbooks approved by the Education Ministry finds the ministry's authorization alongside a list of experts who were responsible for the process of proofreading and copy-editing. Even if they do not necessarily agree with their content, most people sense that they are at least written correctly, whether that be in Arabic or Hebrew. However, an examination of many textbooks used in Arab schools reveals concerning information about mistakes in language, syntax and grammar. According to a report by the Arab Cultural Association, based on a comprehensive study of the language and contents in third grade through ninth grade textbooks, it emerges that there are at least 16,255 mistakes. For example, the word for traffic light is written the way the Hebrew word sounds and not like the term in Arabic. The same applies to the word for health maintenance organization. The phrase for commercial center is rendered by the name of an Israeli department store. The report is based on a study and examination of textbooks in all subjects written by a professional committee, headed by Dr. Elias Atallah, an expert on the Arabic language. From the data presented at a conference held by the association in Nazareth last Friday, it emerges that in math books for 8-15-year-olds there are at least 7,532 mistakes; in three geography and history books there are 3,939 mistakes. Hundreds of mistakes were also found in textbooks for the study of the Arabic language. Association director Dr. Rawda Atallah says the findings were not surprising, since they are a direct continuation of the findings of an examination performed by the association and published in November 2009. In that study, more than 4,000 mistakes in language and syntax were found in textbooks for second grade students in Arab schools. The publication of those findings elicited many responses at the time. The Education Ministry said the Arab education division and the textbook approval division at the ministry would examine all the textbooks intended for the Arab sector. They also noted that all textbooks approved for the sector had undergone a professional pedagogic assessment but they had not been checked for language under the ministry's auspices. At the association, however, they say that the ministry only disqualified the books without introducing any systematic changes to them, and did not bother to re-examine the books intended for the other grades. Representatives of the Arab Monitoring Committee, parents' associations and the Committee of Local Arab Council Heads participated in the conference in Nazareth. Iyad Barghouti, the coordinator of the project, said that the association has already contacted Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar about the establishment of clear criteria for approving textbooks in the Arabic language intended for the Arab education system. The association also wants the participation of Arab organizations and Arab educators in determining these criteria and in the writing of new, mistake-free textbooks. According to Barghouti, the study shows that the procedure for approving textbooks for Arab schools is flawed, and is damaging - both educationally and culturally - to Arab students. The association is deliberating on whether to apply to the courts and has recently consulted organizations and lawyers about the matter. Syntax and grammar weren't the conference's only concerns: Researchers also spoke about the contents of the textbooks and the way they deal with Arab students' cultural and national identities. For example, it is stated that Jews and non-Jews live in the Galilee but the word "Arab" is never mentioned. Dr. George Mansour, who examined the history textbooks, found that the books ignore the presence of the Arab-Palestinian people in Israel and the stress is on the Promised Land of the Jewish people: "There is a process of de-Palestinization, instilling of the Zionist narrative and minimizing of Arab culture," reported Dr. Mansour. The Ministry of Education says it has not received the results of the study. The ministry also noted that this year the Arab education division and the textbook approval division have begun the process of examining books with respect to the language, in addition to the pedagogic assessment, before issuing authorization for a book. Previously, every textbook authorized for the Arab sector underwent a pedagogical assessment, whereas the author of the book was obligated to present certification of the correctness of the language in the book. Notification of the new procedures has been sent to all of the books' authors. http://www...-mistakes-study-finds-1.360617 Also, Israel is crying again: CUNY trustee: Kushner must renounce anti-Israel statements to get honorary degree http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/cuny-trustee-kushner-must-renounce-anti-israel-statements-to-get-honorary-degree-1.360282 lulz... "Waa! Waa!" - Israelie
Rugian Member	Mon May 09 08:33:33 You could probably die today and no one would miss you.
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 08:34:33 lol, Rugina is also crying.
Allahuakbar Member	Mon May 09 08:37:22 "You could probably die today and no one would miss you." I like his postings very much. Thank you Paramount, you are a valuable member of this forum and you educate this community very much. Keep up the good work!
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 08:41:28 Thank you :) Yes someone has to educate this community even if Rugian hates it.
Pissflaps McGee Member	Mon May 09 08:43:07 "Thank you Paramount, you are a valuable member of this forum and you educate this community very much. Keep up the good work! " Indeed.
Rugian Member	Mon May 09 08:43:53 Allahuakbar just likes your posts because the propaganda contained within them help make the Western world less likely to intervene when the Muslims finally begin their final conquest and genocide of Israel and the Israeli people.
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 08:46:46 "when the Muslims finally begin their final conquest and genocide of Israel and the Israeli people." Well, maybe Israel should have thought about that before they started to steal land and ethnically cleanse people and force apartheid upon them. However, you are just talking bs. Muslims/Arabs has generally no problems with Jewish people. It is Zionism most people oppose. And for good reasons.
Rugian Member	Mon May 09 08:52:01 "However, you are just talking bs. Muslims/Arabs has generally no problems with Jewish people." Yeah, it's not like Muslims have a habit of kicking Jews out of their land or anything... "After about a month and a half of hostilities which cost the Muslims very few casualities (a score of dead; Caetani 7 A.H., 43), the Jews asked the Prophet to offer them an agreement and they capitulated, accepting his conditions (thus Ibn Khaldun, ii, App. 39, and his version is preferable, in its details, to those of the other sources: Caetani, 7 A.H., 15 nn. i and 2, and 33). Under the terms of the agreement, the Jews were to remain in the oasis on their land and were to cultivate it, but in future were to hand over one-half of the produce to the Muslims. From a legal point of view, the pact was defective, since it did not define the situation of the Jews and did not say whether they were to remain the owners of the soil which they were to cultivate (Caetani, 7 A.H., 34); it must be assumed that the problem was not even envisaged by the Prophet, whose sole concern at this time was that the oasis should continue to be cultivated, and by the Jews, since Arabs did not like working on the land. The caliph Abu Bakr made no changes in the situation established by the Prophet at Khaybar; Umar made no change during the first years of his government, but in 20 A.H. he modified it completely. That year (Caetani, 20 A.H., 234-237) he announced in a speech delivered in the mosque of Medina that he had decided to expel the Jews from Arabia. To justify this decision, which reversed the pact concluded with them by the Prophet, he claimed to have learnt, and to have acquired positive verification, that Muhammad had declared before his death that two religions could not co-exist in Arabia. According to Caetani, the traditions which report this phrase of the dying Prophet and those which accuse the Jews of misconduct and of crimes were invented; equally, one should doubt the veracity of the suggestion that Muhammad warned the Jews that he was reserving the right to expel them at a later date, and that he was leaving them their lands only in so far as it was pleasing to God, all land being the property of Muslims. These traditions tend evidently to absolve Umar from the charge of having acted against the will of the Prophet in his decision regarding the land of the Sawad."
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 09:03:51 ^ Fairy tale
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 09:04:20 Pics or this didn't happen.
Rugian Member	Mon May 09 09:06:25 Sorry, I forgot that encyclopedic and scholary sources regularly use fairy tales.
Pissflaps McGee Member	Mon May 09 09:15:54 "Yeah, it's not like Muslims have a habit of kicking Jews out of their land or anything... " How was the US formed, again? I can't remember.
Hot Rod Member	Mon May 09 09:16:08 I bet we in America have more errors in our textbooks.
Rugian Member	Mon May 09 09:17:30 "How was the US formed, again? I can't remember." We declared our independence from an imperialist and undemocratic European government.
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 09:23:06 "Yeah, it's not like Muslims have a habit of kicking Jews out of their land or anything..." Europe also kicked out Jews. Or to be more precise, they left by their own choice, after being persecuted. Like Israel is hoping the Palestinians will do - leave by their own choice.
Pissflaps McGee Member	Mon May 09 09:37:05 "How was the US formed, again? I can't remember." We declared our independence from an imperialist and undemocratic European government. " Oh yeah, that's right, we didn't force the native Americans out, we invaded their sovereign nation and murdered them in their tracks and stole their land. That was way worse than anything that ever happened to the jews. My bad. "I bet we in America have more errors in our textbooks. " Errors, probably not. Outright lies and historical re-writes, we probably set the world record on that.
Hot Rod Member	Mon May 09 10:02:54 Fred - That was way worse than anything that ever happened to the jews. No doubt what happened to The Native American was indeed abhorrent, but perhaps the Jews were persecuted more than you realize. I'm reminded of one story where a small synagogue in Italy wanted to replace a 100 year old table that could no longer be repaired. They applied to the local Prince for permission to replace it at their own expense. That night the Prince's thugs entered the synagogue and smashed everything they could find. They had nearly 2000 years of such treatment, and then there was the holocaust. That, of course, in no way detracts from the treatment The Native Americans received.
kargen Member	Mon May 09 10:20:33 "we invaded their sovereign nation and murdered them in their tracks and stole their land." Most of what is now the United States was purchased from other countries. Some Native Americans sold their land as well. Some Native Americans even sold the land of their enemies to whites hoping that the two would kill each other off. And yeah we did take quite a bit of land from the natives, but those fights and struggles were extreemly nasty on both sides.
Paramount Member	Mon May 09 13:22:21 So basically you are saying that that the Natives lost all their land out of free will?
Rugian Member	Mon May 09 13:23:42 Yep. Just like the Sami gave all their land to Sweden out of free will.
Pissflaps McGee Member	Mon May 09 14:12:08 The Indians sold Manhattan to whitey for a handful of beads and a ham sandwich, which was about 15 times what it is worth.
kargen Member	Mon May 09 15:31:18 "So basically you are saying that that the Natives lost all their land out of free will?" No, I am saying the majority of what is now the United States was purchased from other countries. One of the earliest (maybe the earliest) documents about a European landing on what is now US soil was from a priest that was sent along on the mission. His journal states that the captain and a few others rowed ashore and were captured by the natives. They were then killed and cooked on the beach where those still on the ship could watch. The natives hoped this would cause the explorers to turn away and never return. The action was taken because the natives on the mainlands had heard how Europeans had treated island natives and they wanted to send a message that it wouldn't work there. The first official use of germ warfare also took place in North America before the US became a nation. Natives surrounded a small village just before winter set and demanded blankets. They said if the did not receive blankets they would attack the village. Town elders voted to gather up all the blankets from people sick with what was probably polio and give those blankets to the natives as the blankets normally were just burned. Turns out it killed a hell of a lot of natives, and is the first recorded report of somebody knowingly using germs in a fight. As I said both sides did some pretty mean shit to the other.
Pissflaps McGee Member	Mon May 09 15:59:56 link?
kargen Member	Tue May 10 01:33:07 Assorted history books I have. I have another fun one for you. Again a personal journal kept by the priest. Was sometime in the 1600s and the Spanish were exploring Florida. They were starving and the locals were making sure they didn't see any game. The locals offered to trade deer meat for the armor the Spanish were wearing but the offer was declined. After several days of trying to survive eating assorted animal turds the Spanish finally agreed to trade armor for food, but most died anyway. My books are in storage right now, but I'll tell you what books those come from when I get moved into my house. Turns out history is a hell of a lot more interesting than they lead us to believe in school with that boring Columbus discovered America shit.
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