> From: Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > And the Republucans have what to do with this???
Because Republicans control Georgia? Because the Republicans, who have adopted the confederate movement whole, are the ones who are the most likely to eliminate Teach things like the Civil War. Can you even imagine a democrat eliminating teaching the Civil War? I can't. > History education in the US has ALWAYS taken a back > seat to other topics, especially in the post-Vietnam > period (we had to "catch up" with the Soviets). > Freshmen entering college now have less knowledge > about history than did freshmen 30 or 40 years ago. > This is not exactly a new problem. But the scale of this initiative is just astounding. Coupled with NCLB and the never ending assaults on public education by republicans, like Putting people who Want to end completely public education in charge of the education department, and people who have committed a massive school-performance fraud in Texas as head of the education department, and backing school vouchers to move a large percent of the money for public education into a small % of people's hands, and on and on and on. The Republicans HATE public education and they do everything they can to undermine it. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
