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In reply to the discussion: American education fails to teach us anything about American history. [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)37. I had a cool government teacher in the 12th grade.
He explained the facts of life about why our town was totally white--what is now known as redlining. We had one black student out of 3,400 kids in 4 grades in a massive suburban high school. I don't think our school district was integrated until the late 70s.
He had a poster on his door of American Gothic with Shirley Chisholm (first black women congressperson--even before Barbara Jordan) and George Wallace! I guess it must have gone over the heads of the administrators!!
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mountain grammy
Jan 2015
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Labor History is important… Here is an interesting time line that shows us how we got here.
midnight
Jan 2015
#7
Too often they try to cram too much into the curriculum. There is no time to go into any
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#8
The teachers are great. It is the curriculum that isn't so great. Unfortunately teachers don't get
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#23
and now that Republicans have weakened teacher unions with Democrats being complicit in it,
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#26
We didn't have Zinn's book or any of those books when I was in high school.
Manifestor_of_Light
Jan 2015
#32
One of my favorite teachers was more about the approach than the specific material
Posteritatis
Jan 2015
#31