Common Core stinks but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.
but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.
Yes sir there was...now its being entrenched and reinforced country wide.
They don’t care about thee and me so long as our kids and grandkids are good little Nazis.
“Common Core stinks but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.”
I taught Jr High history for many years. When it came time to pick a new text book, I used a quick and dirty method for thinning the herd. (This was back when there were more than two textbook publishers, so I’d have lots to choose from.) If a textbook implied through its illustrations that it was women and blacks who won WWI and WWII, or if it used more space depicting the internment of the Japanese than the entire Pacific War, the text was rejected out of hand. I don’t mind these being included, of course, but they really weren’t what the wars were about.
I once had a text that devoted more space to the role of women spies in the Civil War than it did to Lee, Grant and Shrman combined. Another neglected to mention the Wright brothers but had two entries for Emma Goldman. Finding good history texts has always been difficult, but now that there is little or no competition in the publishing industry, it is nigh on impossible.
bttt