in article , Joe Young at
wrote on 4/18/04 9:23 AM:


"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
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in article , Joe Young at
wrote on 4/18/04 8:54 AM:

"SNIP"

Head over to your local Jr/Sr high school history department and see
for
yourself.........

Sorry, that's anecdotal evidence, not proof (actually, it's not even
anecdotal evidence, since you offered no experiences of your own).


Let see...the alternative are for you to experience what is going on in
my
kids classroom through me

Okay, so you're a teacher. Please give some examples of your students
being
taught at your school that Thomas Jefferson was a horrible guy.

...or actually take the time to find out first hand
in your own locale. Granted the latter may take a bit more effort on
your
part...but that was the point. I think most people would be surprised
how
the curriculum has changed over the past couple of decades

Okay, so show me the curriculum.


I am not a teacher...I do have two daughters... and am continually surprised
by what they bring home. One of the recent discussions pointed out that
many of our founding fathers were slave-owners and therefore were obviously
something less than honorable men...that point alone meant they unworthy of
any honor that had been bestowed upon them by the generations since. How
about the concept that we owe decedents of slaves reparations because their
ancestors were enslaved....and on and on....

Yes, how about that concept? I would think that it would do no one any harm
to discuss it. I recall many such discussions in my own high school civics
classes (this was over 20 years ago). We'd discuss and debate whether or not
it was right to drop the bomb on Japan (the consensus seemed to be that it
was), how much civil liberties should be curtailed during wartime, etc. I
wonder if you might be assuming that your daughters are being taught a
particular dogma, when in fact they are merely being encouraged by their
teachers to consider all sides of an issue.

The point I was attempting to make is I have not been involved in a local
school since I left high school 25 years ago. I am just surprised at the
revisionist crap I hear discussed. My point is I think there would be
others equally surprised if they would take the time to get involved
again.............