[Grand Old Partisan]

Yes, but the Republican Party completely disregards its own history. The GOP freed the slaves, the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party, Susan B. Anthony and most of the other suffragists were Republicans -- but not even most Republican activists know that.

For more information about the true heritage of the Grand Old Party, see www.republicanbasics.com, website for "Back to Basics for the Republican Party, " a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view.

[wwcc]

American History began with the Civil Rights Movement. Before that, it was nothing but a group of racist men ruling through white "supremacy".

The new founding fathers are MLK Jr. and Malcomb X because they "founded" a nation of eqaulity. Just ask President Clinton. He speaks on this topic all the time.

[steve50]

In the 1860's the republican party was the party of high tariffs on imports, now we are free traders, go figure.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Perhaps Jeff Head needs to start a petition to send to NJ to stop revisionist history in the making.

[billbears]

The GOP freed the slaves, the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party

LOL!!!! That's funny!! Really!!(wiping tears from eyes)

[hobblemaster]

Yes, but the Republican Party completely disregards its own history. The GOP freed the slaves, the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party, Susan B. Anthony and most of the other suffragists were Republicans -- but not even most Republican activists know that.

Add to that that Martin Luther King Jr. was also a Republican. The Left doesn't mention that little tidbit any time King's name is mentioned.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Bookmarked

[jragan2001]

Trust me, New Jersey is only the tip of the iceberg on this matter. Other states are soon to follow. This is a result of our glorious, baby-boomers now in their 40's and 50's that are running our country. These are the same baby- boomers who were a bunch of dope-smoking, pot heads who are in charge of our school systems and other important positions in government. It looks like G-d has decided to let the United States of Amerika go in its own direction. Look to the old Roman Empire for evidence on where our country may someday end up.

[Seeking the truth]

I am a product of St. Rose of Lima (Freehold) and Red Bank Catholic H. S. (Red Bank). Both schools taught me my love of history and New Jersey's role in the history of our country.

Many an hour was spent in the old, musty Monmouth County History Museum looking at arrowheads or minie balls or a bunch of us looking for Molly Pitcher's well in some farmer's field.

What in God's name has happened to my wonderful home state?

That is rhetorical but I am so depressed after reading this. Sometimes, I think our battle is hopelessly lost.

[alpowolf]

"[The word] Pilgrim implies religion," said Brian Jones, vice president for Communications and Policy at the Education Leaders Council in Washington. "It's getting more difficult to talk about the Bible and the Puritans."

Although I'm generally against organized prayer in the classrooms, this is just plain silly. How can you teach the history of the U.S.--or of Western civilization--without mentioning Christianity? Regardless of one's own religion or feelings about religion, facts are facts. They were pilgrims.

[Pharmboy]

And this from the state where the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and Springfield took place. These people should be ashamed of themselves (but wait--they're demonrats--they are incapable of feeling shame).

[4CJ]

What is so pathetically sad, is that there are Americans that deny our history. Using the rose-colored glasses of the 21^st century when looking at the past can only lead to myopic vision.

[Always Right]

I thought Bill Clinton was the Founding Father that led us from the oppression of the Evil Reagan Empire.

[chatham]

It is really time for " White History Month", To be celebrated in January and September every year.

America's biggest Myth, "Public School Education".

[Cacique]

Throughout history it is the victors that write history. It is the vanquished that have their history denied.

It is obvious from the above that we are losing the history battle unless we bypass the educational system. Unfortunately most "modern" parents shirk their responsibilities and allow the educational system to educate their children on the important matters. But what can we expect as each succeeding generation is "educated" (indoctrinated) by the current educational system. Socialist multiculturalism run amock

Time for conservatives to begin "guerilla education" and distribute comic books to the high schools that emphasize the history that is left out by the education commisars whose only interest is the mass production of willing socialist dupes. We must do this before it is too left and history is distorted and "revised" beyond recognition.

[gunnedah]

This is no more than a Communist school in Russia or China.Thanks to the Clintons and Democrats this is what we get.This really all started in the 1960s under the Democrats and they have selectively put their people in place in the media and our educational facilities.Our history is no longer.In 20 years their will be only one heritage that is studied and it wont be of those who found this country.

[cascademountaineer]

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are not included in the revised version of the New Jersey Department of Education history standards

The more time goes by, I have to seriously wonder what is happening to this country. Why is the direct omission of the most important historical facts that deal with every aspect of our daily lives being left out of the most basic education? Things like the importance of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and their signifigance to our ideals as a nation are not subjects that can just be easily swept under the carpet without serious repercussions to our freedoms.

Also gone are most references to the inhumane treatment many American soldiers endured in wars overseas during the 20th century

And no doubt right along with it, all the battles they fought so hard and the reasons why. Even the simplest lessons on where we came from and what preceding generations struggled for are not taught. How can any nation not have an idea of where it is going without an idea of where it has been?

These arent minor issues. The tendency to overtly omit history and its importance, rather than a serious attempt at equity and balance, seem more like concessions to hateful minority pressure groups that seem to have an increasingly serious socio/political rift with the rest of the country.

As much as I dont like to say it, if the people that tax us for the education of our future generations refuse to listen to the voices of the taxed that are paying their salaries, sometimes I do tend to wonder every once in a while if it might be time for us to just pack up and start looking for the promised land again. This isnt representation, stuff like this has led to tyranny in every great nation that ever valued the welfare of its citizens.

Im sorry for my honesty, but this irks me a little.

[Ward Smythe]

Some states like Virginia and Indiana also don't include the Pilgrims in their standards.

Virginia has reasons for not highlighting the pilgrims, it's because we were here first.

Jamestown 2007

America's First Official Thanksgiving - 1619

That's why Virginia doesn't emphasize the pilgirms, not some silly notion of political correctness.

[Lumberjack]

Never has a better argument been made for getting rid of public schools.

[Mudboy Slim]

Here's a HardLink to yer referenced webpage...and it ain't the GOP that's ignoring Republican History as much as it's the Vast, LeftWing Medyuh WHORE'd and the Socialists who dominate Public Education in America!!

FReegards...MUD

[stylin19a]

because teachers will know they have to talk about the country's first president and the other Founding Fathers when the lesson on American history comes up.

However, when these current students become teachers, they WONT know to talk about the founding fathers, because nobody taught THEM about it.