I agree.
Posted on 12/09/2004 7:05:55 PM PST by CHARLITE
This approach would force students to study American history without consulting the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, every inaugural address, the bulk of writings by America's founders and much more.
Taken to further extremes, it would deprive Stevens Creek students knowledge of the Roman Empire from Constantine on, the Crusades, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, most of the greatest artwork before the 20th Century, the oevre of English-language authors from Chaucer through Eliot (C.S. Lewis no doubt is strictly forbidden!), and the musings of great scientists who to this day puzzle over the existence of G-d. The result: a curriculum that ignores the substance of history and reduces the textbook to a sketch pad — an assemblage of empty pages, which the children may fill with scribbles, scratches and inventions. Worse, the school's chief administrator, far from erecting a wall of separation between church and state, has put up an even more impervious wall of separation between students and knowledge.
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Char
This is a great article...to say that our founders weren't interested in things of faith is short-sighted and ignorant...and as my son says, if we take their faith out of the story, it changes the story entirely.
Isn't it amazing how many liberties one loses, in a liberal society?
It won't be the first time, and it won't be the last, on a host of topics. That is one problem with the public school monopoly. It puts too much power in the hands of the job protected PC drones. Parents should be able to react with their feet.
BTTT
This parent (arm in arm with DH) ran away from the PC pod people, kids in tow, and we haven't looked back!!!
And if people of integrity and faith had not run away from the problems maybe the left would have gotten no more than the inch instead of the miles they have today.
if enough 'speech' is banned, there will be nothing left that can be said!
Not running away from the root of the problems, but also not willing to sacrifice my children at the NEA altar.
Parents really don't think their kids should be used as the fodder to fight adult battles.
The reverse, actually. They've started the backslide, which is accellerating, and will soon find themselves in the sewer. Moral America is rejecting their antics en masse, and the Red just keeps getting stronger every time they whine!
Optimism, man!
This wall has been under construction for a very long time. Consider that school boards and administrators have been picking textbooks that are politically correct revisionist history for years. I graduated from high school in 1961. Things have gotten much worse since then.
John Taylor Gatto wrote a book called The Underground History of American Education which explains the agenda: the actual dumbing down of the student body.
You can not understand history without examining the influences of religion. Otherwise it is just dates and actions taken out of context of their purpose and meaning. This is an excellent article. Thank you for posting it.
I graduated high school later and you are right. How in the world could I graduate knowing who Martin Luther King was but not know who Martin Luther was?
Thanks very much for the link. I just read the prologue and have sent the link to the many teachers I know!
I agree.
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