“who in your collective opinion did more to destroy the teaching of history at the primary level for American children?”
Undoubtedly, it was the socialist-communist Thomas W. Valentine, New York Teacher’s Association, and his founding of the National Teacher’s Association (NTA) that merged with the American Teacher’s Association (ATA) to produce their successor, the National Education Association (NEA). The NEA subsequently championed socialist, Progressive, and communist causes through indoctirnation of students and American school administrations and administrators. The NTA unsuccessfully attempted to nationalize the schools of the United States and pattern their administration and curriculum after the Prussian authoritarian style of education in the post civil War era. This failure was increasingly reversed going into the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration, who was particularly influential in advancing their goals. The NEA was responsible for the lobbying efforts which established the Department of Education in the U.S. Government.
The NEA has been instrumental in working with members of the communist and socialist organizations and members to promote their causes throughout more than 150 years of U.S. history.
150 years is the age of our modern system of collectivist, compulsory, and single-payer schools. In other words, the schools were corrupt from the beginning and there was no magical year where the compulsory schools were OK.
It just bugs me when I see Freepers, who should know better, write, “My school in the 50s taught ‘x’”, or “It's the unions.”, and “Get rid of the Department of Education”.
I am **amazed** that so few conservatives recognize that collectivist government schools was EVIL from the beginning!