In too many schools Robert E. Lee is held up as a gallant hero, and the Civil War is taught as "the war between the states."

Even in schools that don't endorse those values, children are not taught about slavery or the enormous benefit enslaved African-Americans bestowed on this country. They are not taught that the CSA were traitors who brought arms against our country and killed American men.

So, yeah, a form of hatred for our country is being taught, every time a kid sees a Confederate statue in a place of honor.

LastDemocratInSC

(3,647 posts)

10. This:

Reply to cyclonefence (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:29 AM

Jul 2020

"So, yeah, a form of hatred for our country is being taught, every time a kid sees a Confederate statue in a place of honor."

CRK7376

(2,199 posts)

12. Excuse me....come to my high school classroom

Reply to cyclonefence (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:45 AM

Jul 2020

and listen to lectures about slavery, CW, the Indian Wars, Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears that dislocated my family ancestors to Oklahoma, the Japanese internment camps......

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

13. If only all schools, all over the country, had teachers like you

Reply to CRK7376 (Reply #12)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:51 AM

Jul 2020

txwhitedove

(3,928 posts)

14. Thank you. I grew up in 1950's Oklahoma with great teachers, learned all that plus

Reply to CRK7376 (Reply #12)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 11:14 AM

Jul 2020

pledge of allegiance to U.S. while also singing Dixie. My Oklahoma history teacher was a Native American. I know first hand many teachers were racists, but that was not in the schools, it was kept at home. Granny was a teacher.

Sympthsical

(9,062 posts)

18. Yeah, I'm not catching this

Reply to CRK7376 (Reply #12)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 11:33 AM

Jul 2020

I learned all about American historical atrocities in high school (this was about twenty years ago). The Native American genocide, the horrors of slavery, the violent anti-labor movements. It was part of the curriculum. It was covered in the AP American History test (a national test).

There are plenty of idiots in this country. Unfortunately, they get all the attention.

But this idea these things are not taught is nonsense. This isn't the 1950s. This material has been in schools for ages. I have a lot of college friends who went on to be history teachers (I was a history major), so I know for a fact this stuff is being taught.

I can't speak to every school everywhere, especially in the South. But I hate it when people assert our educational system is still whitewashing everything. We haven't been for ages. People just say that because it suits their narratives about whatever Other they dislike.

Ignorant is going to ignorance. But I imagine most Americans know Columbus was not a great guy.

Freedomofspeech

(4,223 posts)

8. We did have a shitty social studies teacher at the high school

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:27 AM

Jul 2020

where I was the librarian...he would tell his students they had to register to be republicans....in essence he was teaching them to hate America, I guess.🙄

CRK7376

(2,199 posts)

11. This really pisses me off!

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:38 AM

Jul 2020

Come to my Title 1 high school full of Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, White kids in NC and tell me I teach hate of my country you blithering asshole trumpster. By the way Jackass, I am a retired Army Officer, Combat Vet unlike you you coward, and I have been teaching American History for 18 years.