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In high school, the history books we used always tried to condemn Cortez. My teacher went out of his way to try to show us just who the Aztec's were and why Cortez felt he had to destroy them. In short, the Aztec's were evil. We may be facing the same situation now.

Good thing the King and Queen of Spain didn't go around calling Aztec human sacrifice a "religion of peace."

The older I get, the more I am thankful for the education I got at that high school in the middle of a corn field. In general, the teachers pulled no punches. History was taught pretty objectively, and this was just one instance.

Today most of the teachers from when I was there have retired. I am afraid the students at my old high school now do not receive the type of education I did. While we did look at some of the bad things the US did (Sheridan wiping out the Indians, Japanese internment camps in WWII), he always went out of his way to show that those policies were viewed as necessary at the time.