On 9/11/01, I told my son who was then 14, ‘remember exactly what happened today. The history books will not necessarily give the true account’. I had talked to him about Liberal bias in the schools being taught as truth/history. One day he came home and told me they had watched a Walter Cronkhite special ‘year end wrap up’ of a year in the early 80’s. He said he couldn’t believe how biased it was. I told him ‘we didn’t realize it back then’. We must fight the sneaky indoctrination everywhere these days. Our nation’s future depends on it.
If I were Mr. Cohen, I would have questioned what this assignment was about as regards the supposed subject, American History? Admittedly, current events will eventually be part of the historical record, I would seriously question whether this was appropriate content for a middle school class. There is plenty of material that is clearly part of that subject to keep the young skulls full of mush engaged without going directly to obvious indoctrination with a biased publication as the source document.