I wish history was the only halffast teaching that is getting done. About three decades ago when my son was getting into grade school, I offered to help screen a batch of new text books the school dist. was considering. I didn’t have any trouble at all finding errors and incomplete, inaccurate, wishywashy, etc. info in all of them. Every teacher I talked to said they prety much looked for large readable text and lots of colored pictures. Turns out they really didn’t think textbook selection was part of their job. I was already determined to weed out any BS my son came home with but the book experience welded it in place for me. I battled the BS dragon for all the rest of the years, including college, that he was in school. And I came to believe, even tho it was a lot of work, That battling bullstuff and getting to some truth inspite of it, has to be part of the broad educational experience. My son is now really hard to fool and has been far more successful than any of his classmates.
OUTSTANDING!! It is a PARENT’S RESPONSIBILITY (i.e., not some liberal school teacher’s) to get their kids ready to deal with the REAL WORLD, where trophies are ONLY given to winners, where good jobs are ONLY given to high achievers, and where being marginal sets you on an empty life for decades.
It is UP TO US, not them. And for the parents that trusten THEM, I will never forgive you.