Apparently the events of September 11, 2001 are remembered slightly differently in one Texas town then they are throughout the rest of the country.
Kara Sands, a mother from Corpus Christi, Texas, was horrified when she learned that her son was being taught in school that Americans are partly responsible for the terrorist attacks that took the lives of more than 3,000 people on that dark day in 2001.
Sands’ son, who attends Flour Bluff Intermediate School in Corpus Christi, was asked to take a quiz about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. One of the questions on the multiple-choice quiz was “Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” The younger Sands’ answer – which was marked as correct by his teacher – was “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”
“I’m not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did anything to deserve that; over 3,000 people died,” she told ABC affiliate KRIS-TV.
According to the principal at Flour Bluff, the quiz in question was based on a video distributed by SAFARI Montage, a multimedia service providing videos to schools nationwide. In Texas, it is often used in conjunction with CSCOPE, the state’s curriculum management system.
CSCOPE has already been a subject of controversy, especially after students were assigned a project to create a flag for a “new socialist nation.”
This isn’t the first time Sands has taken issue with a part of her son’s curriculum; she previously took issue with a worksheet on the Bill of Rights her son completed which names food and medicines as rights, and not personal responsibilities.
“He got marked wrong, because it is, it is our responsibility for shelter, its our responsibility for food for medicine, it’s the government’s responsibility,” Sands also said to KRIS-TV. “When I teach my children that you have to work hard and you have to earn a living and they go to school and learn something different, I absolutely take issue with that.”
Sands and other concerned parents will address their issues with CSCOPE during the next school board meeting on March 28.
Below is a picture of the quiz as posted on Sands’ Facebook page:
