ditto that regarding different direction.
back in the day, ( 70’s) jewel foods was selling a encyclopedia set a book at a time (brittannica) - volume at a discount when buying food.
I bought ‘em all. Of course they were outdated the minute they were printed.
Kids wore ‘em out, cause I wouldn’t just give them answers. We used them thru the 90’s.
Kids wondered why the info was different than what was in their text books.
Smart kids.
G’kids come along, no room on the book shelf for pictures so the set had to go.
Cursory glance through it before the adios - mostly civil war stuff - amazing what nobody teaches anymore....It’s all now social justice crap.
[It’s all now social justice crap.]
CARL MARX is quoted more in AMERICAN TEXTBOOKS than the FOUNDING FATHERS, and that was in the 90s.
I grew up with my Mom’s encyclopedia from the 50’s. I would grab a volume, open it up and just start reading. I remember having Social Studies beginning in 3rd grade. The books had a very truncated version of US history, but it gave us a good grounding in our country and how we got to where we were. Books on the shelves were bios of founding fathers, famous people, and good stories for kids about living on the frontier or explorers or farm living or war stories. Later, in 7th or 8th grade we had a more detailed US history class. Then, in High School, there was another US history class (we could take it as AP) and also, in 9th grade, everyone had to take civics. In civics, we learned about the US constitution, US law, election process, state and local law, and how to be a good citizen. Can you imagine the horror if they tried to teach that now?
If we want Trump’s presidency to be more than the last gasp of a dying people, we have to take education back from the progressives and throw out every textbook that they use now. There was nothing wrong with the books we used; if anything is no longer considered true, fine, edit it slightly. Add history from the last 40 years. One revision to make, I remember, even in the 70s, we were taught about the progressive movement, and how it was a grass roots movement that brought about all kinds of positive change. I would expplain how it was a socialist anti-American, anti-Constitutional movement that tried to change America, but failed, but whose principles have continued to be pushed ever since.