Deleting history…

[Anonymous]

Is anyone else concerned about the Trump admin literally deleting the contributions of black people the - thousands of images including the most decorated black veterans? And forcing the removal of African American history classes from schools?

How will our DC schools, teachers and parents teach our kids about these contributions?

I realize Trump has a game plan of going after groups one by one (Immigrants, Trans, Black, LGBTQ, Women, Asian, Hispanics, Seniors, Disabled, etc.) I suspect almost every group will be affected at some point. I hope there are folks out there documenting and saving history.

Where can we find all of these documents and history that he is deleting. Are any organizations copying and reposting it? Where can we get this info to educate our kids? It is now more important than ever.

[Anonymous]

No, nobody is concerned.

[Anonymous]

Yes, very concerned about the tremendous harm that will be done over the next 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone heard about organizations or individuals saving documents before they are being deleted?

[Anonymous]

The Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/

End of Term Archive
https://eotarchive.org/

[Anonymous]

I missed this. What is being deleted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, nobody is concerned.

eh, I think you aren't concerned but plenty of others are. I prefer my kids to learn about actual history, not manufactured propaganda history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, nobody is concerned.

eh, I think you aren't concerned but plenty of others are. I prefer my kids to learn about actual history, not manufactured propaganda history.

The internet as we know it is about 30 years old. How do you think teachers taught children history before that? Do you think the internet the only thing keeping your child's teacher from teaching propaganda?

It's not that I don't care. It's that my attention can only be split between so many things and I'm choosing to spend my energy on more immediate, directly impactful things this administration is doing. You're catastrophizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/

End of Term Archive
https://eotarchive.org/

Thank you for this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, nobody is concerned.

eh, I think you aren't concerned but plenty of others are. I prefer my kids to learn about actual history, not manufactured propaganda history.

The internet as we know it is about 30 years old. How do you think teachers taught children history before that? Do you think the internet the only thing keeping your child's teacher from teaching propaganda?

It's not that I don't care. It's that my attention can only be split between so many things and I'm choosing to spend my energy on more immediate, directly impactful things this administration is doing. You're catastrophizing.

It's not just history but also current scientific data. And either way, unfortunately if our students can't find it on the Internet, it's like it doesn't exist. Their plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, nobody is concerned.

eh, I think you aren't concerned but plenty of others are. I prefer my kids to learn about actual history, not manufactured propaganda history.

The internet as we know it is about 30 years old. How do you think teachers taught children history before that? Do you think the internet the only thing keeping your child's teacher from teaching propaganda?

It's not that I don't care. It's that my attention can only be split between so many things and I'm choosing to spend my energy on more immediate, directly impactful things this administration is doing. You're catastrophizing.

This is a very very very important idea. The Internet has altered our idea of shared reality, and clearly it's deeply imperfect -- it can be deleted, cherry picked, etc.

We ALL need to be grounding ourselves in actually reality again. 30 years is a blip. And the Internet made people much stupider.

[Anonymous]

We need a better balance in history instruction in DCPS, and the curriculum itself isn't necessarily to blame. My Asian-American kids mostly learned about the CRM in history classes at their DCPS elementary school, that was about it. We all got fed up with same lessons repeating themselves through the years. I taught them basic things about ancient civilizations and the history of Europe, South America and Asia myself to create better balance for my own family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need a better balance in history instruction in DCPS, and the curriculum itself isn't necessarily to blame. My Asian-American kids mostly learned about the CRM in history classes at their DCPS elementary school, that was about it. We all got fed up with same lessons repeating themselves through the years. I taught them basic things about ancient civilizations and the history of Europe, South America and Asia myself to create better balance for my own family.

This is our first year in DCPS and I was blown away by the quality of history instruction during Black History Month. I just wish that extended to other topics throughout the rest of the school year. February was basically the first time I saw my elementary-aged child learning any history at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, nobody is concerned.

eh, I think you aren't concerned but plenty of others are. I prefer my kids to learn about actual history, not manufactured propaganda history.

The internet as we know it is about 30 years old. How do you think teachers taught children history before that? Do you think the internet the only thing keeping your child's teacher from teaching propaganda?

It's not that I don't care. It's that my attention can only be split between so many things and I'm choosing to spend my energy on more immediate, directly impactful things this administration is doing. You're catastrophizing.

Before the internet, all we learned was propaganda. Now it’s so much easier to learn different viewpoints because we aren’t confined to what the schools are teaching.

[Anonymous]

Go to Google maps, satellite view and take a screenshot of Black Lives Matter Plaza before they replace the photo.