[Servant of the Cross]

*sigh* I miss JPII, Ronald Reagan, Lady Thatcher. The good old days when world leaders were mature, honest, self-giving statesmen/women of integrity.

Confident courageous leadership that combined to "tear down this wall!

[KEmom]

This topic caught my attention this year, too - my son is in 6th grade and there was a chapter on the Cold War - there was NO mention of President Reagan NOR Pope John Paul II NOR PM Margaret Thatcher, but Gorbachev is in there and it is written to make it look like Gorbachev is the reason the Cold War ended.

The good thing about this is I pointed out this glaring omission to my son, who is well aware that Pres. Reagan was a great President. We are teaching him to think for himself and to question why they would exclude an important aspect like this.

This is just another example to abolish the Dept of Education.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Collect History Text books and History Books printed prior to 1913 and you’ll see how those living in closer proximity to our Founding Fathers wrote about US History.

I’ve collected a dozen, some are grade school and some are high school. They present a very Pro USofA picture.

[SunkenCiv]

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[NYer]

From the text book:

For example Gorbachev at a session of the Russian Politburo in October 1986 tried to sell a groundbreaking disarmament plan to the legislature, including a 50 percent reduction in nuclear arsenals. Russia's weak economy could not keep up with Reagan's military expansion. If he didn't propose these cuts, Gorbachev told his colleagues

[W]e will be pulled into an arms race that is beyond our capabilities, and we will lose it because we are at the limit of our capabilities. … If the new round [of an arms race] begins, the pressures on our economy will be unbelievable.

Pope John Paul II provided a moral focus with his constant anti-communism sermons ; his visit to his native Poland in 1979 stimulated a religious and nationalist resurgence centered on the Solidarity movement that galvanized opposition. Reagan also imposed economic sanctions on Poland to protest the suppression of Solidarity. In response, Mikhail Suslov, the Kremlin's top ideologist, advised Soviet leaders not to intervene if Poland fell under the control of Solidarity, for fear it might lead to heavy economic sanctions, representing a further catastrophe for the Soviet economy. That "non-intervention" was the beginning of the slippery slope that lead to the easing of the communist oppression and the fall the Soviet Union.

But absolutely none of the above is in my Son's textbook. It is said that history is written by the victors, but in the case of Cold War history it is rewritten by the Progressives who want to indoctrinate our children to their inaccurate version of history.

(emphasis, mine)

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[GenXteacher]

This is the textbook we use at my school. It isn’t as terrible as some others...and if your teacher is violently anti-communist (like myself) then it doesn’t come off too bad. I also show a video “Stalin: Man of Steel” when teaching about the Soviet Union so my students have some clue about the reality of it.

[Fitzy_888]

Is Tupac Shakur one of our founding father’s in the textbook?

[Pan_Yan]

Here's a thread about my son's 5th grade textbook, which explained that we live in a democracy and owe loyalty to the government.