Posted on 03/11/2010 12:05:29 PM PST by metmom
If you want to know just what your kids are learning from their history books, all you have to do is apply the "Reagan test," says Professor Larry Schweikart.
As the Texas textbook battle continues to simmer, Schweikart says the first thing he does to determine whether a book is politically slanted is to go to any section discussing President Ronald Reagan. What you'll find there, he says, will tell you everything you need to know, he says.
Schweikart says the majority of books he’s examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, and not Reagan. That's “a joke,” Schweikart says. “I lived through the Reagan years, I remember.”
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Commies write and edit the text books, what do you expect?
Bottom line is you can’t let the schools educate your children exclusively. We talked about controversial topics all through my daughters years in school and she turned out to be a staunch conservative by learning the truth about things like global warming, seperation of church and state, or social security (we call it social insecurity) and especially this health care mess as we went through it with the Clintonistas....
I’m not surprised.
Textbooks are worth their weight in toilet paper these days.
They ought to be used that way for that matter.
It makes me wonder why the public school defenders get so bent out of shape over the thought of closing schools and kids might not have the opportunity to go. All that would happen is that they would stop learning massive error, in more subjects than one.
My daughter goes to a big name college and she is appalled at the number of students who believe that fetal development mirrors evolutionary development, for example. Something that had been debunked years ago and is still being taught as fact in science. Not to mention the global warming nonsense.
Reagan is going to figure prominently in our homeschooling history lessons, as well as the true history of our founding.
Having attended college in the 80’s I recall that academics and professors DESPISED Reagan, nearly to a man.
Not a surprise then that they would make sure he gets short-shrift in the history texts.
The author talks about people like Howard Zinn overlooking the obvious human rights atrocities in the Soviet Union and then writing anti-American history books that are used in our colleges today.
The author talks as if this were something new. This has been going on in this country since public schooling became popular shortly after the civil war.
If you follow the link to the story itself, it’s written by a very lazy journalist. There’s not a single quote from a textbook to support the contention that they are misrepresenting the Reagan Era.
I don’t doubt that it’s true, but if it is, they should have presented a bit of proof.
True.
” And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
9: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
10: And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11: And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
12: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers” -Judges 2:10
When I read this, I thought of our schools, molding our future voters the way Karl Marx wanted them molded. The Israelites,too, failed to tell their kids about the great works of The Lord and the heroes that conquered Canaan.
” And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
9: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
10: And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11: And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
12: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers” -Judges 2:10
When I read this, I thought of our schools, molding our future voters the way Karl Marx wanted them molded. The Israelites,too, failed to tell their kids about the great works of The Lord and the heroes that conquered Canaan.
THey used to wait longer before re-writing history.
Of course, that's my favorite line around here when people try to make up stories about what happened a few years ago.
Home School!
30 years from now,I won't be shocked if they credit bin laden with ending terrorism.
Thanks. Actually, I called it the “pregnancy test,” not the “Reagan test.”
I looked at 20 best-selling U.S. history textbooks. Most attributed the end of the Cold War to Gorby; ALL emphasized ad nauseum the budget deficits under Reagan; only ONE mentioned the 14 million net new jobs; NONE mentioned that Reagan and Volcker cut inflation down to nothing. They are disgusting in their slant.
The proof is in my book, which they should have cited, “48 Liberal Lies About American History.” I have FOUR separate chapters on distortions regarding Reagan. It’s a travesty what they do.
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