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American Children Are Being Brainwashed By Textbooks

The remedy for this is fairly simple. Parents who actually have brains should challenge their kids to go direct to the primary source, i.e., for American history and government, read Washington's speeches, The Federalist Papers, de Tocqueville, the Declaration and the Constitution, etc.

Public school textbooks are (by and large) crap. Always verify the facts with primary sources, consider things from different viewpoints, and understand rhetoric, logic, and the English language.

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Parents who actually have brains should challenge their kids to go direct to the primary source, i.e., for American history and government, read Washington's speeches, The Federalist Papers, de Tocqueville, the Declaration and the Constitution, etc.

So, all right, we're talking about 5% of the population.

What about the remaining 95%?

Always verify the facts with primary sources, consider things from different viewpoints, and understand rhetoric, logic, and the English language.

We're doomed.

DOOMED!

:)

[jazusamo]

Agreed and a lot of parents with brains, especially Conservatives do. My daughter home schools her kids and the textbook thing is one of her pet peeves.

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“The remedy for this is fairly simple. Parents who actually have brains should challenge their kids to go direct to the primary source, i.e., for American history and government, read Washington’s speeches, The Federalist Papers, de Tocqueville, the Declaration and the Constitution, etc.”

And parents should look over their children’s textbooks, and as a group, confront the school and school board.