Required Reading

[unixronin]

Or, in which a blogger you've never heard of calls the educational establishment to task for sixty years of abject failure.

Comments

[ithildae]

For me, the outrage is that we don't even teach the American history that I learned anymore. We have substituted American folklore with stuff from Africa and Asia. Between the American colonies, native Americans, French trappers and the WWWest, we should have enough folklore for years of classes. We don't even get a couple of weeks in elementary school. Those are our spiritual roots, the essence of our national identity, and we are ignoring it.

[unixronin]

Indeed. That is part of the same syndrome. We're spending so much time bending over backwards to be "sensitive" to other cultures that we're forgetting our own.

[ithildae]

Precisely. Part of apologizing for America instead of seeing it's strengths.