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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happy with our private.  It's academically rigorous and a good bunch of kids and parents.

Look no further than the lunatics at the school board meetings threatening district officials; who are trying to get books banned at the library; who [b]object to teaching a factual history of the civil war or civil rights movement[/b] as reasons I would not go anywhere near a public school these days. [/quote]

It is clear that you are unfamiliar with history classes in the United States.  For the last two decades, American history has already been taught as a series of episodes consisting of: "first encounters between ethnic groups," the role of women and minorities during the Revolutionary War; a brief debate on whether the Founders were racist, the Market Revolution and oppression of Native Americans, the "Reform Period" with a focus on all of the social ills of antebellum America, the oppression of African Americans through the antebellum period, the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, the oppression of Mexicans during the Mexican American War, the oppression of women in general, and then government intervention during the Progressive Period, the New Deal, oppression of Asians during the Gold Rush and WWII, the role of women and minorities in WWII, the Civil Rights movement and the Cold War.

There were no protests for years despite the strongly negative framing of U.S. history.

Parents now are NOT objecting to factual teaching of difficult truths (although as an AP teacher, I think the narrative is seriously flawed).  They are objecting to political advocacy for reparations and other racist narratives about white supremacy.[/quote]

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