The updated AP US History course has now become a countrywide controversy after many educators took a in-depth look at the contents. The entire course has been re-written around "the theme of ‘white superiority’ and the ‘subjugation of Africans and American Indians’" Traditional American figures such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are barely mentioned in the course. School boards have passed a resolution stating the updated US AP History course "reflects a radically revisionist view of American History that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects.” In North Carolina, our state Board of Education is now hearing the controversy and demanding answers from the College Board, which updated the class for high school students, http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/26/4356766_nc-board-of-education-to-hear.html?rh=1
More "Liberalism in action". Not sure people will EVER wake up, but when/IF they do it will likely be too late.
It's this type ideology that makes people believe that leftists are mentally ill. This type of self loathing is a very real mental health issue and should be dealt with as such. If they were committed they would never be released. “No committed person shall be unconditionally released unless it is determined through the procedures in this section that the person does not have, and in the reasonable future is not likely to have, a mental disease or defect rendering the person dangerous to the safety of himself or others.”
I can see why Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of the United States" is not allowed in public schools. The details are so disturbing it would ruin a fresh child's mind for life. I was watching him give yet another lecture on Link TV and it seemed like such a wasted life. A life devoted to bitching. Nothing has changed since he was a young professor at MIT, yet his purpose in life is to just keep bitching. I know as a kid in school I was lied to by my teachers. They told me "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America." My only complaint is the lying democrat borderline communists want to hide the skepticism the writers of the constitution had for the King's Government which is what all democrats want us to return to so they can once again have complete control over our lives. But I also think I should have been taught that the Constitution aint nothing but a legal document written by lawyers to protect rich white land owners. They got one thing right. Freedom of Speech. And the right to blow the shit out of any government which tries to take it away from me.
New AP U.S. History curriculum has liberal bias... School board begins sifting through AP U.S. History dispute http://www.wral.com/school-board-begins-sifting-through-ap-u-s-history-dispute/14234107/ North Carolina's state school board on Monday began picking through a controversy over whether new Advanced Placement U.S. History guidelines give adequate time to the nation's founding documents and characters, although board members took no immediate action. State lawmakers will use an oversight committee to tackle the same subject Tuesday, as a movement fueled by conservative writers suspicious of the motives behind the new history course pushes the issue onto the state's policy-making agenda. Critics say the framework put forward by the College Board, which creates Advanced Placement tests, does not adequately address ideas such as American Exceptionalism or introduce students to important documents like the Mayflower Compact. Representatives of the College Board said teachers should incorporate those ideas in the broad AP U.S. History course. Critics say that answer is insufficient and disguises an effort by those who designed the new tests to foist a politically liberal point of view on students. "These professors had an agenda. We've already alluded to it. Basically, they saw America not as an exceptional nation but one nation among many in a global society," said Larry Krieger, a former high school history teacher and opponent of the standards. Krieger, who has authored a test preparation book on the AP exam and written critiques of the new course for conservative websites such as Breitbart.com, has become one of the leading voices calling for additions to the AP U.S. History guidelines. Krieger also argues that the new guidelines are incomplete – failing to include study of important historical documents like the Magna Carta. It's unclear what actions the state board will take. State school boards in Texas and South Carolina, as well as a county board in Colorado, have been critical of the standards, although none has abandoned them entirely. Board chairman Bill Cobey did not give an immediate indication of what the next steps might be at the meeting's conclusion. (More at above url)
For those who want to see the new US AP History course description from the College Board - here it is: https://secure-media.collegeboard.o...ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf Take a in-depth read - for those who think I was joking about the re-write of US History... the syllabus will demonstrate the sad reality.
Actually I have read A Peoples History Of The United States. I have also read Lies My Teacher Told Me which is a similar book. I would urge people to read both. There is material in each book that I agree with and some portions I disagree with. But it comes around to this - Can you teach the history of the United States only focusing on the negative and none of the positive? Can you teach the history of the United States without once mentioning Thomas Jefferson? I believe that any advanced placement history course should be balanced - but the new AP US History course agenda is certainly not.
I know, I for one was brainwashed in grade school, George Washington the very father of this country could not tell a lie and confessed he chopped down the cherry tree, and every year on his birthday we celebrated in school by drawing cherry trees and it served me well. They could have declared war and I would have gladly served. I loved my country and I still do. Mostly I just thrive on the hatred for the King. I still can't believe they let that bitch (the queen of England) shut down two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 taxpayer funded highway when she polluted our shores.
basically, all you have to know is the king is bad and America is good, and you have to fight and fight and keep fighting against the evil loyalist forces in this country who want to return the King to his former glory, namely in the form of the federal government. Thomas Jefferson warned us about them. They want all power concentrated in the Government, and if you aint a friend or a member of the ruling party, that makes you just a common man, and your only hope is people like the founding fathers who were willing to risk it all for freedom. so yes, I think their story should be told, over and over again to every generation.