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By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton This article is in response to the ‘Missing in Action’ column from Maggie O’Neill published in the Nevada Appeal on December 26th, 2005 entitled: ‘Trust the Teachers.’ Obviously, this article was not posted online out of fear of rebuttal from bloggers such as myself. Well, Maggie, I would not want to deprive you of a parent’s insight or a fair review. However, you have magnanimously deprived Joe Enge of an unbiased review and instead have decided to push the Teachers’ Union party line so to speak… Bravo! But at least, we can see where you stand. When...

Hi Freepers, I must admit, this story is playing out TO THE TEE of the MSM. As many of you may already know, there is a growing battle for truth in regards to the proper teaching of Pre-Civil War American History in Carson City Nevada. Fix News has been here and I can only assume that they will be back. If you do not already know the story, visit Chuck Muths website www.theengefiles.com To make matters worse, the Neveda Appeal is fighting for THE WRONG SIDE and the reporter is so frustrated with the Blogosphere that she has done something...

CARSON CITY: "HE SAID/SHE SAID" School administrators in Carson City, Nevada, had a very...bad...day yesterday, thanks to y'all. By the time school administrators went home, over 6,500 online petitions in support of history teacher Joe Enge had been sent to the school superintendent, the Carson High principal and the 7 members of the school board. Alas, the volume of emailed petitions overwhelmed the district, and by lunchtime the petitions were being "bounced" by the school district's system. Then came the phone calls. At first, administration personnel tried fielding the flood of calls it was receiving, but by mid-afternoon most...

The Carson City, Nevada, school administrators are attempting to fire an award-winning history teacher, Joe Enge. Why should that matter to you? I’ll combine his story with that of my 11th grade history teacher. Maybe you’ll agree this matters to everyone who cares about the future of America. In Carson City schools, administrators insist that history teachers begin teaching American history with the Civil War. Joe Enge, an 11th grade teacher there who’s written two history books and has served on a statewide board on history teaching, disagrees. He begins at the beginning, teaching his students about the American Revolution,...