These schools are more like “re-education camps”.
A parent describes the new historical revisions being taught in his son’s school.
I spent much time during the past few weeks helping my son study for the state-wide World History test he took a few days ago. Working with him through his studies, I learned his class presented a brand new version of history, a version that never occurred. Some can argue different versions/interpretations of events that happened centuries ago, but his text book and curriculum distorted events I saw with my own eyes.
The text-book in question is called World History Patterns of Interaction, and is published by McDougal Littell. Particularly upsetting was the section of the book covering the period from the end of WWII through the 1980s. It sets up the Cold War period with the mistaken politically correct explanation that both sides were aggressors. On page 983 it says:
“Both sides believed that they needed to stop the other side from extending its power.” What it should have said was that the Cold War was a battle between the Soviet side wanting to expand its communist philosophy across the world, and the west trying to prevent the takeover.”
The book also whitewashes the tyranny of Castro’s communist Cuba. Page 985 says
“Soviet aid to Cuba ended abruptly with the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. This dealt a crippling blow to the Cuban economy.” There was no mention of the brutality of the Cuban regime; the fact that all opposition newspapers had been closed down, all radio and television stations were in state control, or that moderates, teachers and professors were purged. Nor was there any mention of the torture and inhumane treatment in Cuban prisons that is still happening today.
Perhaps the biggest rewriting of history was the discussion regarding the end of the Cold War. It talks about Nixon and detente, then boom on page 991:“… fiercely anti-Communist U.S. president, Ronald Reagan took office in 1991. He continued to move away from detente. He increased defense spending, putting both economic and military pressure on the Soviets.”
And how does the book explain the result of Reagan’s policies? “Tensions increased.” That’s it!
According to the text book, an increase in tensions was the only result of that “evil” Reagan’s policies. But never fear because, there arose a leader in the USSR who knew not the cold war. Later on page 991, the book explains “.a change in soviet leadership in 1985 brought a new policy toward the United States and the beginnings of a final thaw in the cold war.” Wow, look at that… out of the blue the USSR woke up one day and decided to play nice.
More here:
That “1991” is a typo. If it appeared that way in the textbook, they’re trying to revise dates, as well.
Everything from explicit sexual acts to Marxist and Islamofascist philosophy is being taught as part of the school curriculum. United States history, especially our engagement in 20th and 21st-century wars, is being warped to fit liberal’s guilt-ridden hatred of America.
The NEA needs to be abolished. Ultimately, they’re the ones who sanction this kind of bullshit.
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http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/annie-leonards-propaganda-for-kids/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/karl-marx-for-kindergarteners-courtesy-of-socialist-wackjob-howard-zinn-and-the-history-channel/
sarg I keep tellin’ the parent to TEACH YO’ CHIL’REN YOU OWN SE’F but so many are products of gubmint skools dey cain’t heer me…or you.