Do you think that our schools history books have been rewritten to a government agenda?
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Think about it. How many times in a history book do you read about any of the good things communists do? How often do they also put our presidents on a pedestal compared to other leaders. It may not be an "agenda" per se, but certainly the history books of America are biased.
404752
It really depends on what you mean by censored. There definitely has to be some oversight on what our kids are exposed to in school... in fact, I think at times there is too much oversight. But, to say that there should be no censorship or oversight I think would be a mistake. There are too many differing points of view on too many issues. Imagine the chaos that would be caused if the teaching environment was not controlled somehow.
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I agree, though while it seems to make you angry, it just makes me sad.\n\nCrazy ideas come from all sorts of places.  If the education system is so fundamentally flawed that it's not producing rational people able to think for themselves and fend off the crazies, then it's a much bigger problem than just losing a precious piece of our history -- it's losing our identity as humans.\n\nIt's also not Fox's fault.  If it weren't them, it would be someone else.  The blame lies squarely on all of us who know better, because we're responsible for passing that knowledge to the next generation, and we are apparently not doing a very good job.
514767
hmm...how about school policies maybe even the ones at your school like the tardy policy for/against it (I did this speech at my school and they actually changed it)
406722
Yes i have lost faith in the American education system by reading some of these questions. When i went to school during the mid 70s Thur the 80s they taught you how to spell and proper grammar.I do not know how some of these young kids make it through college, because they must write reports with proper spelling and grammar. Sigh, they are going to be our future leaders.
679779
No...they should fix the F---d up school instead of shipping students to other schools...just think...if we sunk the billions of dollars every year that we as a nation spend on fighting the drug wars on paying our teachers a decent wage, upgrading the schools and instilling some discipline and good hard work back into the schools our "drug" problems would slowly diminish because we are teaching our future adults that EDUCATION is important...what a concept huh!
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Singling people out no matter what the race, creed or color is wrong. I'm disappointed to hear that this happened especially on the elementary school level. It perhaps sent out a message, but one we are trying to avoid. As my school prepared for a MLK Day celebration one elequent speaker came to our school and said the following:\n\n(Yes, I'm paraphrasing)\n\n "In our day and age, I feel that sometimes people of my own race are bringing judgements upon themselves unnecessarily. They preach of equality, but when given the rights, want more. Yes, we cannot deny the treatment of Blacks was unacceptable. But must we dwell on the past instead of embracing the future? If we seek equality, why do we draw attention upon ourselves? Why have a "Black History Month?" Is there a "White History Month?" We are asking not to be set "a part." Yes we insist on our own month to celebrate our fine figures from the past? Shouldn't EVERY day of every month be a celebration of what these fine people did? We should live by their words, not force their word."\n\nI think what the world needs is to accept that we are more open-minded than we were 30-40 years ago. Sure, we have pockets of our population that will never be. But the change has been immense. Thank God! This speakers words spoken so elequently made so much sense to all those in that room that day. I think it brought the school together with a "sigh" of relief. All races realized we were working together.....no one is set apart. There is no need to favor a soul in our world today. We all prove who we are by being.....who we are. \n\nThank you for sharing the poem. My hope is that schools such as this, ideals such as this, practices such as this will so very soon be a thing of the distant past.
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Check my question in this category  :  "Have you noticed, little ones, how history repeats itself?"
101425
a challenge would be in obtaining the info from an accurate source n presenting their credibility. teachers rlly look for that in big papers.
1085343
My university education is in history. To understand who we are, you need to understand who we were.
781266
Great, soon we'll revert back to McCarthyism.\n\nThose who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it, and I have a feeling the majority of the administration did not pay close attention in History class.
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Pretty much all of the questions in science & mathematics and History seem like they're from students, I think. The questions they write sound contrived, like they were written in a textbook or on a sheet of paper.
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Personally, I don't think so. I think over the years, people in power altered things to reflect their own beliefs.
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Are you talking about classroom management, district policies, or government regulation?
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yep....considering that way back in the day, things were documented like they are now...I'd say people are making things up as they go when it comes to certain things in history.
589066
good question and reason we (older americans) are buying old history books for our grandkids....\n\nIMHO, because the "Politically Correct" is been taken to the extreme!  Instructors/writers want to re-write history - instead of remembering that we should LEARN from History (or past mistakes, from the good, bad and ugly).  It is a sad commentary on today.
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Our schools should teach students HOW to learn and study on their own. I was the Valedictorian of my high school, not so much because my teachers were good at teaching me (although they were very kind for sure), but because I learned how to study effectively.\n\nThere is too much information in society today. Schools should focus less on "teaching" (which presupposes that they know everything) and focus more on "empowering students to learn on their own and use their rationality to verify the relevance or validity of information they come across."