[Vince Ferrer]

It is natural that people forget history, especially from one generation to the next. I think one of our urgent needs after this election is to teach history, especially communism and fascism. Young people have really never been taught about it.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I agree and that is one way it needs to be approached. Marxism might seem to be a great idea until you get to the body count. I have always been amazed that communism gets let off the hook for its holocausts but Nazism doesn’t.

[okie01]

It is natural that people forget history, especially from one generation to the next. I think one of our urgent needs after this election is to teach history, especially communism and fascism. Young people have really never been taught about it.

Don't you suppose there's a reason why schools don't teach history anymore.

Be advised that, for the past twenty years, the education establishment's chief expert on secondary school curricula was...William Ayers.

Yes. That William Ayers.

The absence of American History and the promotion of Marxism in public schools has happened by design.

[Individual Rights in NJ]

This was by design.

My mom taught civics for 30 something years until they ended it in 1995... and this was in largest/second large public high school in America.

They also did away with Western Civ as well at the same time.

Deliberate ignorance.... but HEY it is okay, they learned all about warm things like women’s history or hyphenated-American history and Social Justice LOL.

All the while just omitting real world history and the classics all together.

[Dogbert41]

"Young people have really never been taught about it."

You are so right. Instead, they are indoctrinated in it.

[freekitty]

I agree. None of them know the horrors of Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Lenin; etc,

I am afraid they are about to find out.

[FreedomPoster]

FReeper LS, aka historian Larry Schweikart, would likely strongly agree with you.

I suggest using his books as a start.

http://www.amazon.com/Larry-Schweikart/e/B000APV7AM

[Madame Dufarge]

The Decline of American History in Public Schools