Rewriting America's History By Jocelynn Smith, Sr. Managing Editor On Saturday, February 21, I shared a story about an Oklahoma representative who had proposed to cut funding for Advanced Placement U.S. History, accusing the current coursework of not being patriotic enough and undermining "American exceptionalism." We've also seen similar movements spring up in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Colorado during the past year.
I posed the question to readers: Do you trust our elected officials — whether local, state or national — to decide what should be taught to children?
The response was overwhelming! It's obvious that there is a growing unease across the country about the bias and censorship that is seeping into the curriculum of American schools.
As a special issue of the Saturday Sovereign Investor Daily, I thought I would share with you just a small sampling of some of the responses we received:
From E. Sisson
I read your article about the change to AP curriculum (U.S. History) and I wish what you said was not true, but unfortunately it sounds like more of the same. If the PTB (powers that be — the really rich — international bankers) want control, they do it through various means (media, education, etc.) Anyway, I appreciate your input and I hope to influence some towards the fact our country is going in the wrong direction.
From M. Broderick
I am so thankful for the Sovereign Investor. You all offer a world perspective and provide relevant information about other options.
The United States has so many good people, it is worth fighting for the good people to read, read, READ at higher levels, which enhances higher order thinking skills.
The attack on public schools is a way to keep people dumb — literally, reading builds the brain for advanced and complicated concepts, and AP courses of course lead to higher order thinking. People who can think, write, and read at higher levels are not easily taken advantage of, and in fact, hold others accountable for their unethical actions.
From P. Lane
It is all about context that matches the objective. Is history just about what happened or why it happened as well? Is it about learning what happened in its historical environment or attempting to apply today's social and cultural standards to critique past events and actions out of their context? What is the objective of teaching history? That is really what the controversy is about.
There are lots of events in American history that were far from noble, just or even logical. Slavery always seems to be on the lips of many but what about treatment of the American Indians, child labor, union busting on the one hand or union thuggery on the other. How about the disenfranchising of women until August 26, 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified? What about the control by the robber baron wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth?
All of those events are part of American history and should be taught but in what context? In my opinion, both the good and evil of each as well as subsequent consequences should be taught, with balance being the objective. An objective of just vilifying everyone from Christopher Columbus to the present serves little prospective purpose just as failing to teach why historical events happened make American history just an exercise in memorization of names, dates and places.
My guess is that Advanced Placement American history is the place to ask why and not just what. Those students generally possess more ability to reason, to analyze, to balance. Those abilities though should not be used in some politically correct effort to only measure past events using contemporary values, mores and biases.
From R. Alvarez-Galloso
Attempts to rewrite American History by the so-called leaders are reminiscent of what happened in Nazi Germany, Cuba under Castro, Venezuela and North Korea. It also hides the crimes of the elite and discourages critical and objective thinking.
From L. Ganse
My feeling is that it may well be too late to stop this. In fact, public schools have been de-emphasizing our history for at least the past 30 years. I know this from the experience of my two children in California public schools in the '70s and '80s. I ran head-on into this when my son and I were talking about his history class in high school. I found that they had two days discussing the Civil War and ONE WEEK on the holocaust.
Following the de-emphasis in those days we got the re-writing that is now plaguing the curricula. If the people do not wake up and get education control away from Washington and the teachers' unions it is difficult to see a happy ending to all of this...
Has the government's reach stretched too far? I would love to hear your thoughts, whether you think America's history is in danger of being sanitized or if the curriculum has become too dark. Please email me at sovereigndigest@gmail.com.
Regards,
Jocelynn Smith,
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