How to break the left’s chokehold
on the teaching of American History
Power Line,
by
Paul Mirengoff
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
9/26/2020 4:27:25 AM
The left has hijacked American history. Due to its unrelenting attacks on America, our brilliant but flawed history is now presented to students at all levels with the brilliance excised and the flaws vastly overstated. We have discussed the hijacking in posts like this one and this follow up.
The questions are: (1) will patriotic Americans muster the determination to reverse the hijacking and (2) what is the best way to go about doing so.
With President Trump now leading the way, it looks like the answer to the first question is “yes.” Trump’s remarks at the White House Conference on American History show a determination to break the left’s chokehold
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/26/2020 5:31:05 AM (No. 552691)
The 1776 project is sorely needed. Please add capitalism to the curriculum. Our young people need to know how our economy works. It is stupid to try and play the most important game of your life, earning a living, not knowing how the economy works. Also include some courses on investing. Then a course on the constitution, and how our political system works. Students are graduating ignorant, and brainwashed. Students are being brainwashed to reject their parents, ancestors, and country. This cannot be allowed for another day. Why are schools only allowed to be named after leftists? The stench is unbearable.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/26/2020 7:19:14 AM (No. 552752)
There is really only one way. Get your kids and grandkids out of government schools no matter what it takes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Krause 9/26/2020 8:15:32 AM (No. 552828)
Schools and teachers promoting this perversion need to be exposed on a regular basis. Name names.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fayebeck 9/26/2020 8:18:27 AM (No. 552830)
When will Americans stop with the "we're the greatest country ever on earth BUT we do have FLAWS and we're not perfect and we've made mistakes".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/26/2020 8:53:51 AM (No. 552873)
It is curious that the Lefties don't go for teaching Math or Quantum Physics. They aren't fools. Just evil.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/26/2020 8:57:53 AM (No. 552880)
There is no need for a Federal Department of Education any longer. America is no longer populated by isolated communities or remote farms.
I agree with the 1776 project but, more important, is to break the hold of the National teacher's union and the Department of Education. They are the vehicles for the damage inflicted on education.
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my understanding is that for the longest time the argument was that only a few or single version of history (and other) school books could be profitably produced due to the offset printing technology and that the content was driven by the big states. along that line, the leftists situated themselves in the decision making on those school books in these states to spread their view.
i am guessing that with digital technology smaller states and school districts should be able to
diversify content of school books.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Muguy 9/26/2020 9:12:18 AM (No. 552911)
The news media has been turned into a propaganda and Agenda-creating force rather than to "Report the facts, and let you decide" form of information.
Short little phrases are created like "hands up don't shoot" are spun until they are accepted as truth and when the TRUTH comes out, people are so brainwashed they think it is a lie.
"I can see Russia from my house" is impossible since Russia is over 800 miles from Wasilla, Alaska, yet the Saturday Night Live skit was pandered around as truth to lampoon former Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
George Orwell's famous quote still rings true to the demonrat socialist media:
"those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past".
Those of us who have a good memory must be erradicated or we call BS on the media's attempt to put forth another media sensation that Doctor Ben Carson called "the latest shiny object" to take our eyes off of BLATANT corruption of our federal goverment swamp.
Only an OVERWHELMING landslide victory for Mr. Trump can stop this shell game. WE have been waiting patiently for the corruption to be called out, but unfortunately, many powerful republicans are part of the cesspool and are in CYA mode hoping the President will lose.
It's up to US now, wile we can stop the tide of socialism being forced upon us by the demonrat socialists
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/26/2020 9:37:02 AM (No. 552948)
The solution is simple, cut government funds and student loan backing to schools that insist on teaching their own version of the truth. It's disgusting how these "institutions of higher learning" pay professors outrageous salaries to teach a few hours a week. Most of the guilty schools have better football teams than they do effective education. I have hired a few people with impressive degrees that were actually useless to the point that I stopped hiring recent college graduates and favored those with a good work history. Even though you can no longer ask those probing questions of former employers, there is a secondary "language" that follows government guidelines but retrieves the truth. It's a far better interview process than blindly accepting the fact that Johnny's parents had the money to buy a diploma from a "good" school but is a deadwood employee.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
moonlightflip 9/26/2020 11:12:27 AM (No. 553057)
I read Land of Hope a year ago. It's excellent and am pleased to read it will be the foundation of this project.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Talk2 9/26/2020 11:21:53 AM (No. 553074)
The useful idiots of the 70s have worked hard to destroy civics and history in K-12 curricula to set the stage for today.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 9/26/2020 11:27:04 AM (No. 553084)
We desperately need to protect our children from the poison in Howard Zinn's hit piece on America, "A People's History of America."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 9/26/2020 11:43:11 AM (No. 553110)
Thomas Sowell’s “Basic Economics” should be required for any curriculum discussing economics...but no, no... the Marxist Democrats wouldnt like that. To them, Sowell is “uppity.”
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