Posted on 10/04/2014 2:08:12 PM PDT by combat_boots
On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan stood at the very spot on the northern coast of France where forty years before Allied soldiers had stormed ashore to liberate Europe from the long night of Nazi tyranny.
As an audience of D-Day veterans and world leaders listened, President Reagan introduced the American Rangers who captured the cliffs as “champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”
But starting this year, many of our best students won’t learn about the “boys of Pointe du Hoc.” Although state and local U.S. history standards recognize and honor the heroism and contributions of American military commanders, servicemen and women, and Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, the College Board’s redesigned Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) Framework ignores them. In fact, it essentially ignores all of American military history from the Revolutionary War to the present day.
About 500,000 of our nation’s most academically talented high school sophomores and juniors take APUSH. The College Board’s new Framework completely omits all American military commanders and notes just two battles – Gettysburg and Sherman’s March to the Sea. It totally neglects the valor and sacrifices of the American servicemen and women. Veterans and their families will be dismayed to learn that Washington does not cross the Delaware, William Travis (a South Carolina hero) does not defend the Alamo, and the GI’s do not liberate Europe.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
Maybe, being AP History students, they don’t need some boneheaded “educator” to tell them the truth about history based on one book.
Let’s hope so. It’s probably dumbed way down, anyway. Maybe it’ll create some conservative young people when they find out they were lied to.
You can count on that. Many here will sit it out (again), if their standards/values are not met by the GOP candidate -— just like they did the last two Presidential elections.
And if the Dem wins, then the country will continue downhill and the sitters out will continue to complain mightily at their continued loss of freedom ... Pack of shoe sniffers, if you ask me.
Voting for ANY GOP candidate is better than allowing the Dems to win again.
“boys of Pointe du Hoc.”
I never heard of it. Sheesh I have been deprived of an education. Can I start all over with Kindergarten?
this is the alleged walk out issue in Jefferson County Colorado. the libtards don’t even want a review of the anti-American biased ap history. of course the real driving forces sre the commierado anti-American teachers unions and the nea (Not Even American) trying to get more money. and the students are just useful idiots. lowering the voting age to 18 for everyone was really a stupid idea (active duty military exempted)
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Thank you. I just read it. That is very interesting. I love the Navy saved the day....lol.
Oh, piffle. In a survey course of American History, you don’t focus on the details of battles and wars, unless your teacher is lazy and uses movies instead of actually teaching. You memorize Presidential elections, follow major trends - Westward Expansion! Populism! - and pay attention to the “small picture” only as it illuminates the big picture.
A good teacher who is enthusiastic about history will assign additional reading and writing assignments that reflect his or her personal interests. My AP History teacher in 1983 had commanded a company of infantry in Vietnam. Our class was heavy into military detail. However, Capt. Mitchell also had an interest in Transcendentalism and other American philosophical and religious movements, such as the Shakers, so I did a lot of reading about that.
The thing a lot of conservatives don't like to hear about AP is that it is, after all, a sort of "cheat": it gets a student out of taking a college history class. Despite the popular view, a student has a halfway decent chance of getting a fair liberal or even a conservative at most major schools if the student takes US Survey. This is because even though surveys of voting patterns show overwhelming liberal domination in the universities, many of the profs do indeed remain fair. I can think of many in my own department that I recommended to my son. One---a socialist---is so careful about political bias that his students literally do NOT know how he votes. Another, in poly sci, who was featured in Horowitz's "Worst Profs in the US," has a much different report from my students, who say he is quite fair. But more than that, at a survey level, a student will likely get an "instructor" or TA, who often are more conservative---this is because instructors are usually people who didn't get a tenure track job, often BECAUSE they were conservative or had conservative dissertations.
We need to stop the AP Common Core abomination. But it was, even when it was well taught in its previous iteration, a poor substitute for a real classroom experience---I know, I used to teach AP US History.
” Veterans and their families will be dismayed to learn that Washington does not cross the Delaware, William Travis (a South Carolina hero) does not defend the Alamo, and the GI’s do not liberate Europe.”
Fine with me. These leftist nazis and commies won’t know what hit them when it’s time to permanently remove them from American soil.
Ticonderoga pencils were being made in Mexico, maybe China...but there are still many old unused graphite mines in Ticonderoga area.
Bring ‘em back. Gets my vote.
Awww, your e-GOP RiNO candidate trailing in the polls again?
Don't throw a hissy fit! Just vote for a conservative -- even if he doesn't play tennis and squash!
Or would that be too ..... infra dig?
Age 18 and/or a DD214 sounds like a good requirement for citizenship and/or the franchise, to me.
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