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Krieger complained that the framework portrays the Founding Fathers as "bigots" and suggests that Manifest Destiny was "built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority," rather than "the belief that America had a mission to spread democracy and new technology across the continent," as he put it. And instead of discussing the "the valor or heroism of American soldiers" during World War II, the course outline mentions U.S. internment camps and moral questions raised by the dropping of the atomic bomb.

In other news, O.J. Simpson would like to be spoken of solely for his accomplishments on the football field. Talking about his murder trial represents a "radically revisionist view" of his life.

 

That article is pretty frightening -- touches on what is a growing effort in conservative-leaning states to abolish AP U.S. history and the AP program entirely. The movement is also attaching itself to the Common Core debate even though the two have nothing to do with each other.

Insane. But, given that a great majority of this country forgot all about Vietnam and waved the pompons as we invaded Iraq, not surprising.

 

Yeah, it appears some legislators were sick the day they taught the difference between "non-required framework" and "required curriculum."

 

Not to be included:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html?_r=0

 

It's important to remember that this committee action is designed to put those elitist students who want to do well academically back in their rightful place. Those kids who think that they're so smart need to be taken down a peg or two. If somebody wants a college scholarship or some other program to cut the cost of attending a university, he should do it the old-fashioned way: work hard to become a better football player. Some school teachers and administrators are forgetting the real reason why Oklahoma has universities.

 

Can't they just wait until college to turn our kids into liberal socialists?

 

Amusing that the crew that wants no hint of suggestion that the U.S. government has done anything wrong in the past, is essentially calling for the overthrow (or dismantling) of the current government. Something seems to have darkened their outlook.

 

I think slavery has always been treated in history books as something that should not have happened. The history book I had 25 years ago mentioned which presidents had owned slaves and portrays the Civil War as one of the darkest points in US History.

 

It's almost like there's something different about the current President.

 

Yeah, it's the lack of liberal influence in public education that is killing this country.

 

In the past few years there's been a resurgence of the argument that slaves in the pre-Civil War South were better off than bottom-rung poor whites.

 

That and soccer.