Dav
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 7, 2009
- Messages
- 5,536
- Reaction score
- 1,813
- Location
- Virginia
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Libertarian - Right
Refusal to acknowledge the role of religion in the works of the founding fathers. Harsher grading on "politically incorrect" work despite it being accurate. Injection of anti-American and anti-Christian rhetoric into lesson plans. Bias in presenting the civil rights movement and who was behind it. Injection of racially divisive rhetoric into lesson plans.
I could go on but that's enough to start with.
Continued:
Placing FDR (and to a lesser extent, Kennedy) on a high alter, teaching the Great Depression as a failure of the free market and Hoover as a laize-fair president, pushing isolationism by painting everything bad as the fault of an American action (two of my previous history teachers have honestly taught as fact that America was responsible for the Khmer Rouge) plus generally emphasizing everything bad America has ever done, conveniently passing over things like Article 1 Section 8, etc. The two worst things when it comes to lefty slant are the Great Depression and Cold War; I'm starting to come around to the view that the teachers, rather than teaching history, should just provide the cold, hard facts, and let the students research things like the causation behind them. It's pretty much impossible to teach causation without having some sort of slant. Little details count, and there are always some that are left out.
That's just history, too. Not even to mention all of the environmental BS they push on us in science class.