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"Our high school has several known communists teaching history. They do not teach the Constitution is an ideal. They do not teach the kids how to think, only to regurgitate offensive remarks about America. The class spends _weeks_ discussing lynching and the japanese internment. The kids are not taught about the American Revolution at all-- they skip it."

Known Communists? Are they members of the Communist Party? How do you know what they teach on a day to day basis. Lynching happened in this country. We did intern citizens of Japanese ancestry. So those things are taught as part of our history. I doubt seriously if they're taught for the whole semester.

I do not believe that children in your school are not taught about the American Revolution. I do not believe that at all. It is part of the curriculum.

However, if what you say is true, then it's time to get your friends together, go to the school board meetings and demand an explanation. If the school board doesn't listen, then recall them. It's easy to do, you know.

Do you realize how few votes are needed to elect a school board in most communities?

I hear what you're saying, but complaining about it does no good. Take action. We have a wonderful system here in California that enables us to throw out the school board and replace them at any time. Many districts have done so.

But...before you start, make sure you're right. You're making statements that aren't supportable. Yes, I'm sure that the Japanese internment and lynchings are taught about, but I'm equally sure that does not constitute all the subjects that are taught. Unless you can demonstrate that these things did not happen, then you have no case.

Get your _facts_ together and do something. You have that right. If you don't exercise it, you're just complaining, and that's useless.

I've already told you that we've already done that stuff in my community. Now the schools are outstanding. You can do the same, but you will have do do something more than whine.

You obviously do not live in the communist county of Santa Cruz, if you do not believe there are communists teaching children in school.

Few communists in our county are actual members of the communist party because they know that can get them canned from their government and teaching jobs. They do however become democratic socialists or green party members-- which are thinly disguised communist venues. Since there are no laws about hiring members of the green party, they skirt that issue.

It is true in American History the Revolution is bypassed. The book starts with the reconstruction after the civil war. The japanese internment is so popular with our school district, last year they partnered with the city of Watsonville to do a re-enactment in the town square, including the arrest and removal of actors playing japanese people.

You don't know the half of it, so Please don't insult me by saying that I am whining. You do not know my involvment in the community or the number of hours I spend volunteering on school and community projects.

You have a perfect school, but you don't say where it is. I would like to look up information about it.