Jeb Bush / Common Core ping.
Posted on 08/31/2015 5:42:12 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Nothing much happened between 1492 and 1592. :-)
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Actually, Columbus & the other white Europeans came over & screwed (in more ways than one) Fauxcahontas’s people .... the Left does want to talk about that!
Jeb Bush / Common Core ping.
I’m surprised they haven’t yet made the history of Mexico required studies.
Most of what I know in that time frame I learned on my own anyway. History keeps growing and time in school does not. I remember being bothered by the fact that Am-His curriculum basically went: Columbus, Plymouth Rock, Revolution, 1812, Civil War. And other than the Revolution and Civil War you’re talking basically 1 day maybe 2. So I went to the library. Now admittedly most of it wasn’t terribly exciting but it certainly provides some helpful background for the “high points”. A whole bunch of stuff in the Revolutionary War doesn’t make any sense without a working knowledge of the French and Indian Wars, of course those things get skipped in the “school version” of the Revolution. But if you’re going to teach that then there’s something else that has to be dropped.
This is nonsense.
Where are you getting that information? I think it is false.
Where are you getting that information? I think it is false.
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It was meant as a very “snarky” reply to the other semi-snarky “nothing happened between 1492 & 1592”.
If you google “Columbus & Indians” or something similar, you will see a lot of “stuff” about how Columbus & his men were rapists & murderers & another ‘theme’ is that they brought over VD from Europe & gave it to the Indians, etc. This is a meme the “Left” just loves ... they want to do away with Columbus Day, etc. because he was such a horrible person. The “Fauxcahontas & her people” was a shot at Elizabeth Warren. You sort of came in on a conversation that had been going back & forth a little (no problem!) & my end of it was devolving into sarcasm & snark. Does this answer your question .... I wasn’t quite sure what you were referring to, but took a good guess. FReegards, ~Q
Here’s are two opposing links to get you started:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html
Get government out of the education business entirely. The whole “accreditation” process is worse than the Food Pyramid. Why would a free people let government decide what an education is?
Perhaps a secondary agenda but not the primary one. The primary agenda is to dissociate students from American founding principles and nationalism. It's larger purpose is to prepare them to be "Citizens of the World": vassals to the emerging one-world dictatorial socialist system ruled by unelected U.N. bureaucrats.
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