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Originally Posted by Guest
I am a bit conflicted in this discussion.
I went to grade school in the late 40's and early 50's. Much of what I was taught, I find as I go on in life was not true.
Teaching history in any manner, even if you espouse the most bland presentation is tough because all history is the result of something that is up for interpretation.
HOW and what is a local matter for the most part and parents can have in put.
My pet peeve which stretches beyond just a discussion on education but keeping it within the thread......
Our families have been split apart and morals mean nothing any longer. There is no parent involvement at all any longer.
We keep going further and further away from the family and THAT leaves our children "unprotected" to your point.
Making America Great Again would be a step back and find our own moral grounds, like family.
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1. Typical of any of these threads, people discuss, SCREAM about the same thing but see different things.
TRUTH-which side of the issue is the TRUTH.
2. You mention as you go on in life you find that things you were taught were simply not true. Our views are always changing.
3. Fairly recently I saw some 16mm movies of myself and my sister at like 4 and 6 years old. There were also movies of my parents and my aunts and uncles. It was truly shocking how different it was from what I remembered as a 4 year old. I remembered my parents and my grandparents scolding me regularly for littering.
I remembered the streets were far cleaner in the old days.
The movies showed clearly what I remembered simply was not so. The movies in the streets of NYC in Van Cortland park were full of TRASH blowing about.
4. RE: History
The HISTORY we were FED in school was POLITICALLY CORRECTED HISTORY. Just like people are all hot and bothered about what is going on now THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ISSUES-how did we get here?
A GREAT BOOK TO READ-"Don't Know Much About History."
A quick introduction the the DIFFERENCE between what we were taught and REALITY. SADLY FEW PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SAYING BUT THEY DO SCREAM WHAT THEY THINK THEY KNOW-BUT DON'T.