[goldstategop]

History as rewritten by California liberals. <shudder

[TxBec]

ping.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I've tried to review my kids' history textbooks and I really haven't seen this type of censorship. We're in Arizona but supposedly the textbook companies write their copy to suit the school boards in the big states---New York, Texas and California. Hmmmm, I'll have to look at the next book my kid gets. At least he's in a charter school. Thanks for posting this!

[NetValue]

Orwell predicted "new speak", "Big Brother", and "double think" (and I am sure I have missed a few more). They're alive and growing in California.

[Space Wrangler]

Revisionist History is almost as dangerous as tyranny itself. When history is revised to reflect our current values, we deny ourselves the truth. Those who refuse to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. Too bad liberals possess no logic, because for that very reason, by forgetting history, we will be repeating the very things they try to forget. Typical idiot liberals.

[Adder]

"I think our textbooks should to our greatest capacity be free of any type of stereotyping," said Sue Stickel, deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the California Department of Education (search). "We need to make sure that all ethnicities are represented. We need to make sure that both males and females are represented. We need to make sure that our materials cover the full gamut."

So isn't that a stereotype in itself? The gutless bureaucrat? The simpering twit?

WHY do we need to make sure all ethnicities are represented? Who worried whether Italians were represented in the 1960's? Who worried that Sally was baking a cake and needed four ounces of sugar: How many cups did Sally need?

I shudder for our children and our country. We are in the process of killing ourselves and our civilization.

[Hodar]

And there will be no more reading about Mount Rushmore (search), where the faces of four U.S. presidents are carved into stone, because it appears to offend some Native-American groups.

Huh? You certainly don't hear of them crying about the Crazy Horse monument being carved into stone nearby. Of course, that monument is being done by a white man and his family, funded by public donations. Far be it for the Native-Americans to help fund their own monument. Funny, they claim heritage to monuments after other people put forth the money and labor build them (Mt. Rushmore, Alcatraz, ect.)

[LiteKeeper]

read later - education

[EggsAckley]

Hmmm, does this mean that NOW I have to say "rain forest bunnies?"

[Iconoclast2]

What's far worse than mere political correctness is outright lies. My kids American history text teaches that the Constitution has an "elastic clause" so the federal government can address changing circumstances. It was written by a winner of the Bancroft History Prize. He knows better.

[coloradan]

Government schools bump.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How sad. Kind of like Japanese textbook coverage of their history 1935-45. Guess it didn't happen.

[alloysteel]

These people bump into mirrors and say, "excuse me". Probably an improvement over stiff-arming the mirrors, but just as disconnected from reality.

[headsonpikes]

"We need to make sure that our materials cover the full gamut."

The full gamut-- from Marxism to Feminism to Black Consciousness to social Democracy...all the way over to Liberalism.

[baseballfanjm]

I'm homeschooled and get to avoid this, since I doubt where I live, Massachusetts, that things are much better. My sisters are serious historians who love to study the Civil War. I can't imagine how they demolish Civil War history in California now.

[peteram]

"We need to make sure that all ethnicities are represented.

Sure - just like they tried to change history by altering the NY Firefighters flag raising scene at ground zero by erecting an "all-inclusive" memorial depicting the event involving members of all races and walks of life.

[luckodeirish]

I'm white, so from now on I would like to be referred to as "pigmentally challenged".

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

To be fair...the term "Framers" was used in schoolbooks when I was a lad decades ago.

[wbill]

Many of the changes seem to represent a direct assault on historical accuracy. For example, the new guidelines dictate Native-Americans should not be depicted with long braids, in rural settings or on reservations. There are no suggestions on how they should be depicted, however. The problem there, say historians, is that some Native-Americans did wear their hair in braids, and generally lived in rural settings before being relocated to reservations.

Heck, if we're revising history, lets go all the way. Let's have a textbook with Native Americans and Mexicans as the winners of the West and condemming European Americans to reservations. Then, ask the kids to resolve the historical discrepancies with what they see today.

Lying a little bit is easy - particularly if the people being lied to don't care. Lying a lot is much harder.

[zlala]

And if you think grandpa is a senior citizen, guess what? You’re wrong. That’s demeaning, according to the new standards. He is now simply an "older person."

I guess this school district doesn't call it's 12th grade students 'seniors' because it's so demeaning. Just think how the 11th grade student's feel if they're still referred to as 'juniors'. Just disgraceful!
/sarcasm