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To: stylin19a

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.


2,193 posted on 08/29/2018 10:04:45 AM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Defiant
-- 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. --

Amen. Prayers that those on this mission get success, and their opponents suffer confusion.

Breaking the family unit, taking the schools -- key points in what looks like suicide of Western Civ. It's not too late to reverse course, but will take sustained effort over multiple generations, and then continuous vigilance.

2,202 posted on 08/29/2018 10:11:31 AM PDT by Cboldt
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