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[quote=Anonymous]Look, teaching your kid that this country’s ideals and outcomes for most of its residents have been in tension for 400 years is not shocking or even that hard for 4th graders.

I have seen cartoons explain why Black people sided with AND against the American Revolution, based on real life concerns.

Is it hating the USA to explain why tribes fought its expansion?

The Civil War was fought against slavery but Northerners could still be racist. Not impossible to explain.

World War II led us to choose to side with Stalin against Germany. Then fight communism for 50 years. How would you explain that?

The war in Vietnam or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - would you explain them as defeats or use the crutch of domestic opposition?

How would you explain the history of cities like D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, L.A., NYC over the past 75 years? Or why suburbs exist?

You won’t be able to teach U.S. history without some shades of gray.  It’s valuable to leave kids with a sense of the values that Americans are trying to achieve in these various cases. But don’t go absolving the U.S. at every turn. We’re better than that.[/quote]

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