Posted on 02/16/2010 5:00:56 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
He may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools, U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.
State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.
"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."
As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.
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What are they trying to hide?
PA football fans forgive me, but there is a phenomenon that is remarkably similar to this:
Pittsburgh Steeler fans like to pretend professional football began in 1970, ignoring everything before then.
Probably for the same reasons, btw.
(Google it)
:)
The South erases the shame of the Civil War?
They will begin in a dark time in American history -- when white men (of no particular political party *cough*cough*) were imposing Jim Crow, lynching uppity blacks and building the power of the KKK.
But certainly the light at the end of the tunnel will the Progressive movement and the growth of the federal government to take care of the childlike citizens who cannot care for themselves.
Heck, there's no NFL worth mentioning before them!
Hey, Ms. Garland...you are a LIAR!!!
They are trying to eliminate all the influence of our Founders and indoctrinate with the poison of the Progressive movement which, "coincidentally", started to really take root here in America in the late 1800's.
Wish you could hear my dad tell the stories...the Steeler/Browns games for some years were on Saturday night in Cleveland, if you can believe it. It was because the busloads of fans would come to Cleveland and party and get drunk off their asses. They knew the Steelers would get pounded (as they were the Detroit Lions of their day) but it was an excuse to get completely sh*tfaced.
According to him, those were the days. :)
*not trying to hijack thread, just that it reminded me of something. Carry on!*
Glad somebody picked it up and ran with it...lol.
Progressives trying to rewrite history? That’s been going on for as long as they’ve been around. Hopefully Common Sense, and history/heritage, will prevail.
Today, I heard a caller to Mark Levin’s show mention that in a private school in CT, “Liberty and Tyranny” is a required senior course. The book must be read for graduation as well as participation in the class.
Last week, I heard that two departments of THE Ohio State University are awarding extra credit for reading “Liberty and Tyranny.”
No matter how they are trying to stomp us out, we’re gaining on them.
This has to be viewed as hand to hand combat, like our brave soldiers in Fallujah. If we conservatives can teach 2 others via Liberty and Tyranny, the wingnuts will be a minority for two generations.
Ridiculous. Everyone already shortchanges the colonial period. Here in the East, there’s plenty of material to be taught from 1600 to 1776—and actually before.
I believe one of the motivations behind progressives and their attempts to re-write history is simple insecurity. They are shallow in their beliefs, ideals, and theories. They know that many of them have been disproved time and time again. So they cannot abide true history where things were messy and often ugly, but somehow we got through. No, somehow we got through without all their pretty little theories and slogans. This drives the “progressives” nuts, hence they have to re-write history. They de-emphasize that which doesn’t support their world-view and ideals, and the artificially inflate the importance of genuinely trivial events.
I’ve always thought American History was the easiest to study. We only have 400 years of history, from the landing at Plymouth to present day. Is that too hard? It isn’t like Greek or Roman history.
“We are certainly not trying to go away from American history,” Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News”
Sure you are.
No mo being forced to learn about those slave owing honkies like George Washington and sheeeeeet
Wrong. It is the hardest. This nation was founded by men who knew history well and were determined not to repeat it. The American experiment is the most difficult history of all to teach, and unfortunately since the dawn of the Progressive movement, educators have been determined to ignore the founding of our nation and to distort the truth of the founding of this nation.
Now in North Carolina, they want to eliminate the founders and begin the History of America with the dawn of the Progressive movement, the dawn of the rewriting of our Constitution by socialists bent on turning this nation into a Socialist utopia.
The shame of the civil war? You must be talking about the New York bankers and New England manufacturers who were making millions off of the south. And you are right, it is a shame that the rights of individual states to control their own destinies were denied and demolished.
Yup. I’ll file this away under “Reason to homeschool number nine-hundred-ninety-nine-million...”
For those who don’t homeschool, better get your kids a DVD copy of “School House Rock...”
P.S. - I suggest skipping the 1990’s and 2009 Libtarded “School House Rock” episodes(”Money Rock” and “Earth Rock”), altogether. Your kids get plenty of that BS in school, already. Besides, those episodes REALLY suck! LOL!
Cheers
Imagine the generally inept American teaching club attempting to cover some three-thousand years of history, as is done in Europe.
Another freakin outrage. Let’s skip all the important stuff that made our country strong and prosperous, and focus on all the crap that has torn it apart. Brilliant.
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