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OK propones to eliminate AP U.S. History

Posted: Feb 17, 2015

If you can buy into that, it is probably useless to discuss education at this point. For one, studying the negatives of a history is, hopefully, a way to prevent them from happening again.

We apparently should only teach "American Exceptionalism."

When, finally the Republican administrations of the past are being outed for the insurmountable harm they have done in various regions of the world, let's say the MIDDLE EAST, the good people of the U.S. have decided to try to put the genie back in the bottle!

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I guess we should subscribe only to the progressive movement, huh? - sm

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And teach our children to be little Nazis like the Hitler Youth?

What the heck is that even supposed to mean? - smh

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Do you realize that Nazism was a form of right-wing totalitarianism? Wow.

I would like to think that we teach our children the truth...sm - VTMT

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about our history, the good and the bad.

Leaving out the bad parts of history just - dooms us to repeat it.

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When I was in school, for some reason the entire story about the Holocaust during WWII was "skipped". They just said, "And the Jews went to live for a while in Concentration Camps". As I kid, I would wonder, "What are they concentrating on?"

It wasn't until my SENIOR YEAR in high school that the subject was even slightly broached. Even then, no mention was made of the millions of people who were gassed.

Finally, in junior college, we learned about the mass murder of the Jews in the Holocaust.

In elementary school and junior high, the WASP kids were very mean to the Jewish kids, and I could never understand why. Had the schools taught kids the truth, and why discrimination is such an evil thing, I seriously doubt all that taunting would have occurred.

Children can handle the truth, and should be taught the truth, so they don't go making more hurtful things up on their own, like the kids at my school did.

When I was in elementary school we saw a - documentary "Night and Fog"

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About the concentration camps. Worse than any horror film you will ever see. Excellent and acclaimed documentary, so horrible it nearly made me sick. I think I was in 5th or 6th grade - 11-12 years old?

It was horrific and true. To this day I will not forget the lampshades made out of skin, the buckets full of gold teeth taken from the Jews when they were sent to the chambers.

I guess it was pretty shocking they did that to kids, but this was the 1960s, when the horror was not too far gone and they must have realized how important it is to make sure no one ever forgets. Sounds like with your generation they had already chosen to forget.

Not saying that Jewish children were treated much better because of it - my best friend was Jewish and she had a cross burned on her lawn in this working class neighborhood, I also witnessed black families being persecuted - but it stayed with me for years and is still with me.

When you see something like that at a young age it makes an indelible impression and I agree that young minds are capable of dealing with it, more than adult minds in a way - they are not trying to convince themselves it could never happen, they are just witnessing. I would never voluntarily watch it again I have to say though.

Now we find Christianity and "American Exceptionalism" being bundled together to justify painting American History in a positive, more patriotic light and removing anything negative. This is not only lowering standards, it borders on propaganda.

National Black Robe Movement - sm

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Begins with Ken Ham, nuff said for me, but if you need more...

Separation of church and State, repeat, separation of church and state, repeat...

If you want your children to have a Christian education, cough it up and send them to Christian schools, or I would even go for voucher systems to allow "some" public funds to divert and follow a student to education of choice. Not particularly in favor of that, but it sure beats tainting the education system for everyone.

http://nationalblackroberegiment.com/education/

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/02/17/3623683/oklahoma-lawmakers-vote-overwhleming-ban-advanced-placement-history-class/

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