Posted on 05/30/2015 9:52:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A group of students at Los Altos High School want California history textbooks revised, claiming the current textbooks don’t tell the whole story.
The students claim the version of American history taught in California classrooms is at best incomplete and at worst biased and inaccurate: failing to adequately cover the experiences, accomplishments and frequent mistreatment of communities of color and women.
“There’s definitely value at looking at the good things we have done, there’s definitely value at being proud of those things, and there’s even more value in acknowledging what we haven’t done correctly,” one of the students said.
Members of a history club at the school, which calls itself “The Left Guild” for its left-leaning politics, say they spent months reviewing the state’s history standards.
In a letter to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, the group describes the current curriculum as “sanitized” and “misrepresentative” of the actual historical record.
In one of the group’s more controversial claims, they said U.S. foreign policy after World War II represents an “actual holocaust” which has resulted “in the needless deaths of hundreds of millions.”
“If we’re not, on the one hand, learning about the true scope and scale of crimes against humanity upon which the United States was formed, the genocide of Native Americans, the realities of slavery, we’re not going to understand the similar crimes playing out in the present tense,” said Seth Donnelly, the group’s faculty advisor.
San Jose State University Professor Bob Rucker said reassessing the textbooks is long overdue, that our history books themselves have a long history of neglecting the stories of minorities and women.
“More people were involved in the history of this country, so more people should be included and seen as part of the learning of the history of this country,” Rucker told KPIX 5.
The state’s Department of Education said they will hold a series of public meetings, in a process that’s expected to take months, if not years.
Good synopsis. Sad, but true.
That reply should have come with a trigger warning. :-D
shouldn’t they sell each and every thing they own and give it to indians and blacks?
This dude is a lefty disguised as a faculty advisor. Here is his contact info. Be respectful.
http://sharepoint.mvla.net/teachers/SethD/Pages/default.aspx
Who in the Hell joins a History club in high school? I was playing basketball and chasing girls. (not very successfully mind you)
All these minority gruops looking for thier pay day, REPARATIONS!!!
Multiculturalism is just so freaking awesome!
So you think if we did these thing that race relations would get better? That blacks would not hold whitey responsible for their lot in life? and that America would not be held out by these cretins as the ultimate evil?
Right on!
Laughable...
They’re obviously talking about the atrocities committed by the communist regimes that we allowed to flourish after WWII. Had the US pursued the fight and destroyed the Godless Red Menace, millions would have been spared.
They need items for their college essays and this shows how ‘courageous’ they are. They will all apply to colleges that don’t require them to send in their SAT scores.
Wonder if those students ever read this. It might hurt their widdle feelings.
History of scalping in America.
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
What is even more interesting is back in the 1980s Indians were claiming they never scalped or tortured or cut up people. This article proves them wrong, wrong wrong!
Current events: Slavery that still goes on in Muslim lands.
Will The Left Guild print all of the black slave owners too?.
I guess the Marshall Plan never happened.
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