Republicans and US History

[bobabode]

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-republicans-throw-a-conniption-20140819-column.html

I guess anything that besmirches their candy coated version of the Gilded Age is a call to arms.

"Republicans throw a conniption over the teaching of U.S. history"

"As students prepare to return to school in the next few weeks, there's no better time for a conservative freakout over education. The issue of the moment is a new outline, or "framework," issued by the College Board for advanced placement classes in U.S. history.
The framework (http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-exam-descriptions/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf) is here. According to a resolution (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/RNC.JPG) passed at the recent summer meeting of the Republican National Committee meeting in Chicago, it "reflects a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects." The RNC calls the framework, which is to be implemented for some 500,000 AP history students this fall, "biased and inaccurate."
Wartime experiences, such as the internment of Japanese Americans...and the decision to drop the atomic bomb raised questions about American values.- College Boards' instructional framework for AP US history classes

The RNC calls for Congress to de-fund the College Board, an independent body, until the course material can be "rewritten...to accurately reflect U.S. history without a political bias."" Michael Hiltzik LATimes

[BlueStreak]

No, they want US history to reflect THEIR political bias. Which is to say they want to fill it up with fairytales about saintly Founders who unanimously agreed on every issue, blacks that were thrilled to be slaves, Indians that didn't really like living in Georgia anyways and coal miners that were damn proud to work in a dangerous hole in the ground for shitty pay in the form of company script and a cot in the company barracks.

The GOP can stick it's version of American history and its brainwashed content up their fat butts.

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Many conservatives still don't get with the current program of blaming their country for all the world's ills. American Idiot and all that.

I read some of it, and I also read their resolution. The standards seem pretty boilerplate, but the resolution's not unreasonable, particularly about the sample test made public.

That said schools race to the lowest common denominator is rooted in our society and is not necessarily the educators' fault.

Pete

[Tom Joad]

"Don't worry Mizz Scarlet, we'll stop them Yankees"


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[Tom Joad]

Many conservatives still don't get with the current program of blaming their country for all the world's ills. American Idiot and all that.

I read some of it, and I also read their resolution. The standards seem pretty boilerplate, but the resolution's not unreasonable, particularly about the sample test made public.

That said schools race to the lowest common denominator is rooted in our society and is not necessarily the educators' fault.

Pete

That's a really cool avatar Pete.

I hate it when one of my enemies has a cool avatar. :mad:

[piece-itpete]

:D "What we have here... is a failure to communicate' lol

Thanks

Pete

[donquixote99]

Many conservatives still don't get with the current program of blaming their country for all the world's ills. American Idiot and all that.

I read some of it, and I also read their resolution. The standards seem pretty boilerplate, but the resolution's not unreasonable, particularly about the sample test made public.

That said schools race to the lowest common denominator is rooted in our society and is not necessarily the educators' fault.

Pete

So the College Board Framework is fairly described as 'blaming their country for all the world's ills. American Idiot and all that?'

Or is this whole thing just GOP partisan pandering to the silly narrative you allude to?

Facts have a liberal bias, it seems.

[BlueStreak]

To reiterate;

No, they want US history to reflect THEIR political bias. Which is to say they want to fill it up with fairytales about saintly Founders who unanimously agreed on every issue, blacks that were thrilled to be slaves, Indians that didn't really like living in Georgia anyways and coal miners that were damn proud to work in a dangerous hole in the ground for shitty pay in the form of company script and a cot in the company barracks.

The GOP can stick it's version of American history and its brainwashed content up their fat butts.

Dave

Dave

[Tom Joad]

No, they want US history to reflect THEIR political bias. Which is to say they want to fill it up with fairytales about saintly Founders who unanimously agreed on every issue, blacks that were thrilled to be slaves, Indians that didn't really like living in Georgia anyways and coal miners that were damn proud to work in a dangerous hole in the ground for shitty pay in the form of company script and a cot in the company barracks.

The GOP can stick it's version of American history and its brainwashed content up their fat butts.

Dave

Plus One.

[nailer]

Pretty sure WWII was not part of the period in our history known as The Gilded Age.

The history I learned from grade through high school contained a lot of myth.

[bobabode]

Pretty sure WWII was not part of the period in our history known as The Gilded Age.

The history I learned from grade through high school contained a lot of myth.

You didn't read far enough or is the LATimes article unviewable?

[BlueStreak]

Pretty sure WWII was not part of the period in our history known as The Gilded Age.

The history I learned from grade through high school contained a lot of myth.

It'll be silly fairytales on steroids when these people get a free hand. You can bet on that. They only want to hear what makes them happy and strokes their uber-patriotism, reality be damned.

You didn't follow the Texas School Board shenanigans a few years back?

Dave

[nailer]

You didn't read far enough or is the LATimes article unviewable?

Reread your OP, that's all I needed. I found your opening statement and the following example of WWII (I assumed it was from the article) amusing. I couldn't resist taking the shot. Please forgive my boorish attempt at humor. :cool:

[nailer]

It'll be silly fairytales on steroids when these people get a free hand. You can bet on that. They only want to hear what makes them happy and strokes their uber-patriotism, reality be damned.

You didn't follow the Texas School Board shenanigans a few years back?

Dave

No, but then again Texans are always up to shenanigans.

[sanford12]

There's a really good book called Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Funny, enlightening and scary. I knew we weren't getting the straight scoop. You know if you go back and look at the Republican party at the turn of the last century they were what a Democrat is now and vice verse. How in the heck did that flip flop take place.

[bobabode]

derp...

[Tom Joad]

You know if you go back and look at the Republican party at the turn of the last century they were what a Democrat is now and vice verse. How in the heck did that flip flop take place.

The "southern strategy" had a lot to do with it.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/18/gops_southern_domination_why_nixon_is_modern_conse rvatisms_true_creator/