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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Exactly. The "truth" is usually much more nuanced than what is taught in our schools. Schools should be teaching critical thinking skills, not circumscribing the bounds of acceptable thought.
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This is true, but you cannot teach all the nuance in elementary school.

Thanksgiving in schools traditionally has revolved around the Pilgrim story.  There is some truth to it--they did have a Thanksgiving and Indigenous people did help them learn to do some farming.  They did come for religious freedom, as well.  Was Thanksgiving a happy harvest feast with the Indians?  Probably not.  But there is some basis to the story.

Same with a lot of the other "facts" listed.   Some basis.  Not necessarily the whole truth.  Columbus was an important figure and I'm pretty sure I learned that he never really got to mainland "America."  I always thought that he "discovered" the world was round as his claim to fame.  And, that was because he was headed to India and ran into America.

As for "isolationism,"  there is also some truth to that.  We did not enter war until we were attacked by Japan.  But, we did have "Lend/Lease."[/quote]

Yes, I was taught that Columbus was very brave because he was willing to sail off the end of the world in order to prove the world was round.

The Thanksgiving story is almost entirely myth, and was literally invented just to justify the holiday, but other than the little worksheets with the blond haired pilgims and the smiling Indians in feather headresses, it's at least got some basis in history.[/quote]

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