On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: >> Nationalism is a major factor in school social studies curricula, and a >> great medium for indoctrinating the child with official truth. Access to >> Wikipedia and other on-line sources helps him to formulate the >> questions that needed to challenge the teachers of those truths. > > History textbooks tend to lie by omission but the board of education > will be loathe to approve anything that explicitly encourages students > to look elsewhere for the director's cut. They don't want to deal with > the fallout when students report back to class asking why their > curriculum bears no mention of the Mỹ Lai massacre, the bombing of > Dresden, Operation Northwoods, the Bonus Army, the School of the > Americas handbook, Martin Luther King's FBI fan-mail, Jonestown, or > the Tuskegee Study, etc. Indeed, who would?
Does that make the "board of education" part of the problem? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
