so imo, there is a great need to divert away from portraying our country’s events as a giant catalogue of crimes. most instructors are not just left, they are extreme left. i complained to the dean several times about how white men were being continually derided in my history class.

children don’t care enough to engage critical thinking and that’s what makes partisan teaching such a danger…on both the left and the right. i’m not sure what can be done to avoid it.

I recently read in the January volume of Imprimis an article by Charles R. Keslar from his speech on Oct. 21, 2013 of which I would like to point to this small part, “..what we are seeing in our politics these days is not two clashing interpretations of the same Constitution, but increasingly two different Constitutions in conflict: the old Constitution of 1787 and a “living” Constitution that is not just a different approach to the original, but an alternative to it.” He may be right, which makes me think that it’s all the more important that our children are taught our Bill of Rights and Constitution as written, so they may be able to discern the progressive spin that constitutes a “living” one. It certainly appears that vigilance is called for these days and I can’t find fault with the Tennessee legislature for doing just that.

Chris

I thought that really stated the situation quite well.

Chris

Guess what! The both of you missed the mark on what I had to say. The great difference between the America and the old USSR, the Third Reich, North Korea et al, is that in America, Glenn Beck and Howard Zinn can write their version of American history. You can’t remove the biases of the authors, educators, publishers and worst, politicians and activists of all political stripes.