Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 09:04     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think these are homilies and folk legends. I don't have a problem with learning about them. I think history is largely subjective any way.

This.

Agree
I get what op is saying though
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 09:03     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous wrote:The one that bothers me is that Rosa Parks sat down because she was old and tired. Actually she was young, and part of an organized campaign of civil disobedience.


+1
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:51     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
The one that bothers me is that Rosa Parks sat down because she was old and tired. Actually she was young, and part of an organized campaign of civil disobedience.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:46     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
If your kid's worldview is shattered when they learn that George Washington didn't cut down the cherry tree, you have failed as a parent.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:45     Subject: Re:Gripe about US history myths taught early on
It's not definitive if Betsy made the first flag:
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/did-betsy-ross-really-make-the-first-american-flag
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:45     Subject: Re:Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous wrote:Not OP but the cherry tree story was made up:
http://edit.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/parson-weems/


But was your faith in humanity crushed when you learned it was a fable?
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:44     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous wrote:I think these are homilies and folk legends. I don't have a problem with learning about them. I think history is largely subjective any way.

This.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:43     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
I think these are homilies and folk legends. I don't have a problem with learning about them. I think history is largely subjective any way.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:42     Subject: Re:Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Not OP but the cherry tree story was made up:
http://edit.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/parson-weems/

Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:41     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
My worldview wasn't shattered when I learned that GW may not have cut down a cherry tree.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:30     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
The world as it is.

You mean according to you?
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 08:26     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:George Washington and the cherry tree, Betsy Ross and the American flag, etc. Reading some preschool materials for this holiday and I am just discouraged by how little fact is involved with early U.S. history. The myth teaches a lesson, sure, but what a lot of time wasted on crap when it could have started out as small facts built upon over time. Instead, we get these myths from which point when the kids get older, they realize it's all been a lie, and their worldview is shattered. I don't understand why we can't just teach the world as it is.


Explain.


+1
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 06:20     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous wrote:George Washington and the cherry tree, Betsy Ross and the American flag, etc. Reading some preschool materials for this holiday and I am just discouraged by how little fact is involved with early U.S. history. The myth teaches a lesson, sure, but what a lot of time wasted on crap when it could have started out as small facts built upon over time. Instead, we get these myths from which point when the kids get older, they realize it's all been a lie, and their worldview is shattered. I don't understand why we can't just teach the world as it is.


Explain.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 02:05     Subject: Re:Gripe about US history myths taught early on
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2015 01:39     Subject: Gripe about US history myths taught early on
George Washington and the cherry tree, Betsy Ross and the American flag, etc. Reading some preschool materials for this holiday and I am just discouraged by how little fact is involved with early U.S. history. The myth teaches a lesson, sure, but what a lot of time wasted on crap when it could have started out as small facts built upon over time. Instead, we get these myths from which point when the kids get older, they realize it's all been a lie, and their worldview is shattered. I don't understand why we can't just teach the world as it is.