So if you wonder how we get the o'donnells here you go. War on history taught with facts and real information, which has been going on by the right since at least 1950 -- when all those uppity black men came back from fighting in WWII and Korea. If you couldn't get rid of public education all together, then teach lies. They've taught the lies so well that even the people telling the lies don't know they are lies.
Here's the WaPo story on the contemporary version of this kind of so-called history taughtg in the public schools.
This is the conclusion of the article, about the person who wrote this so-called history book, who, by her own admission, is no historian:
The book also survived the Education Department's vetting and was ruled "accurate and unbiased" by a committee of content specialists and teachers. Five Ponds Press has published 14 books that are used in the Virginia public school system, all of them written by Masoff.
Masoff also wrote "Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty" and "Oh Yikes! History's Grossest Moments."
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I'm writing about this on Friday.
It's what we were taught. People who weren't there don't believe that it happened, but it did and it's in evidence in our debate today (if you want to dignify the professional wrestling match that the teabaggers pass of as debate).
Friday? Today is Thursday and yesterday was Wednesday.
We have quite a few friends, including Peter Gordon, who were grade and jr. h.s. students in Virginia, and they say that's what they were taught too.
And obviously it's true because ... we ... have ... the ... actual ... textbooks. The ones we have are written all over by the students. None of the content they added though is about history in any way.
Evidently for a short period that series from the 50's an embarrassment to the state, so they got rid of all the copies they could. Thus, interlibrary loan from the U of VA, Mr. Jefferson's personal property back in the day. Their collections and archives are superb, and they always keep them accessible for users by ever technical update that comes along the toll road.
Love, C.
Much of what I learned in the late 1960s and through the 1970s was supplemental material that our teachers added to the core curriculum (in New Jersey). Slavery was certainly in the textbooks but not so much the destruction of the Native American people, as I recall. If it was taught, it didn't stick so I'm thinking that it was glossed over. Coming to think of it, in 7th or 8th grade I did a report on Christopher Columbus, and in it, he was the hero.
I'll e mail you a link to something similar I blogged about on this very topic.
Audrey! Please do!
I miss you. We saw Michael, Michelle and Kettia last week at N's show. He shouted K out from the stage so the audience could welcome the youngest U.S. resident in the audience to the country.
They audience LOVED getting to do that.
Love, C.
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