I thought a little back to school heads up might be in order. Teach your children well.
1 posted on
08/15/2005 9:29:55 AM PDT by
dukeman
To: dukeman
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I'm glad Texas has a centralized textbook adoption board. These kinds of attempts to rewrite history get caught. Texas is such a big market that revisions forced by Texas get put in textbooks around the entire US.
3 posted on
08/15/2005 9:39:32 AM PDT by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: dukeman
4 posted on
08/15/2005 9:39:43 AM PDT by
RedBeaconNY
(Vous parlez trop, mais vous ne dites rien.)
To: dukeman
Thanks, dukeman.
My favorite bit of revisionism is that we live "in a democracy", but by looking around you can see that it "has failed", requiring massive and radical reform to get it back to the democracy that jefferson and the other founders dreamed of.
5 posted on
08/15/2005 9:40:32 AM PDT by
DBrow
To: dukeman
Excellent read.
This is a topic that comes up often in our house. My husband has always been a lover of history, and while not anywhere near as knowlegeable as this author, pointed out revisionism in textbooks when he was in HS (did not go over well with the teacher) and he graduated in 1973..........
8 posted on
08/15/2005 9:52:15 AM PDT by
Gabz
(Smoking ban supporters are in favor of the Kelo ruling.)
To: dukeman
To say that someone is Deist is not to say that they are not religous. Deists don't believe that the Lord has given Divine revelation directly to any human, but they do believe that there is a God and that He created the universe and all that is in it.
10 posted on
08/15/2005 9:56:47 AM PDT by
RonF
To: dukeman
Most of the parents we know don't even look at their kids textbooks. Sigh.
11 posted on
08/15/2005 9:57:07 AM PDT by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: dukeman
The best way to fight revisionist textbooks is to . . . use ours:
"A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror" (Sentinel, 2004).
(They won't let me post a graphic of the cover, as that might be "solicitation." But others may do so if they wish).
17 posted on
08/15/2005 10:11:52 AM PDT by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: dukeman
Years ago my son's first grade reader said that Aesop was an AFRICAN storyteller. Of course we all know that he was a Greek slave (born on the island of Samos).
The teacher couldn't have cared less, the district office couldn't have cared less - this blatant BS didn't matter much to them. Been homeschooling ever since.
21 posted on
08/15/2005 10:15:21 AM PDT by
Lizavetta
(Let not your heart be troubled.......)
To: dukeman
Thanks! Needs to be passed along to our school board members, too.
To: dukeman
As a parent, I thank you very much for this information
24 posted on
08/15/2005 10:20:59 AM PDT by
TN4Bush
To: dukeman
I learned from Mr. Barton that the first Bible published in the US was published by Congress with the inscription "For the Use of Schools".....
....so we diligently follow the advice of Congress and use it daily in our school!
Wallbuilders is a great site!
To: dukeman
29 posted on
08/15/2005 11:13:25 AM PDT by
don-o
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Sigh. Nothing surprised me anymore. So "sigh" is about all I can come up with these days.
31 posted on
08/15/2005 11:17:44 AM PDT by
cgk
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Check the index. One book had several pages on some movie star, and only 1 page on Washington or Lincoln.
Is the battle for Atalanta only in a picture, or iis it in the content?
In this day and age, are terrorists called terrorists, or insurgents, or freedom fighters? Are there pictures of 9/11, and how is it treated?
34 posted on
08/15/2005 11:31:31 AM PDT by
mathluv
(Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.)
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