K through 12 is already fully sugar coated in its approach to U.S. history. Universities are meant to be a place for critical thought and the presentation of a more accurate and thorough analysis. Not right-wing unicorns and rainbows bullshit that confuses Reagan with Jesus. That sounds like hyperbole, but if you want a glimpse at what they’d turn any topic into go over to Conservapedia and read a few articles.
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Forcing all American history through a prism of racism and
“social justice” distorts the core values and accomplishments
of the American people. Individualism, self determination,
innovation, self reliance, the rule of law, private property, Christian/Judeo morality, and FREEDOM from an oppressive federal government were what led to prosperity and the “American dream”. Of course there has been injustice but it does NOT define American history. Many of the questions in the test could have best been answered by none of the above.
The hatred for whites in some of the comments is laughable.
85% of the country was white and somehow managed to create the most successful and enduring democracy in history. I think
some on this site would be happier in Russia, Cuba or Africa.
America with all of its fault is a beacon to the rest of the world.
Just why does the RNC think it has the right to dictate their version of sweet history to US citizens, college professors, and AP high school teachers? This is still the good old USA, isn’t it? Or does Putin run the show now?
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“Instead of striving to build a ‘City upon a Hill,’ as generations of students have been taught, the colonists are portrayed as bigots who developed ‘a rigid racial hierarchy’ that was in turn derived from ‘a strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority,’”
Have these idiots been paying attention to the same news I have on the southern border?
There are the same sort of (bigots) screaming and threatening to shoot 3-4 year old children!
The right wing extremists on SCOTUS were wrong about discrimination in this country. It bears a striking resemblance to the same bigotry of old.
Tell the truth to our youth!
Next thing, they’ll be demanding that slavery be omitted as a reason for the Civil War. It’s not that these people are against science. They are against knowledge–knowledge that contradicts their ideology. I say keep the tests as they are. Admit students who pass them. Let those who don’t go to some Southern state school where their prejudices will be affirmed.
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How precious. Someone knit a new sock.
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“Instead of striving to build a ‘City upon a Hill,’ as generations of students have been taught, the colonists are portrayed as bigots who developed ‘a rigid racial hierarchy’ that was in turn derived from ‘a strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority,’” the letter reads.
What was slavery, then? Self-sufficient green farming co-ops?
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Or, if yankee in-laws are present, “The Recent Unpleasantness”
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Next thing you know those dirty liberal historians will be calling what we did to the Indians genocide instead of “Manifest Destiny”. Maybe they could compromise and call it “Manifest Genocide” or something along those lines.
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These are the same people who like to argue with economists about the economy, with biologists about biology, with educators about education, and with climate scientists about climate (or weather, as they like to call it).
Experts in every field of scholarship, they are.
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Remember the America series on the History Channel not so long ago? I couldn’t watch much of it because of the anti-tax and anti-regulation rhetoric throughout the first part. Plus, i couldn’t tell what part was the show and what part was a Bank of America commercial. It just blended seamlessly together. This is what Republicans want to see in our schools.
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l am a student of history and must say in any honest veiw while far from perfect the USA comes off better than all other nations.
What I think is the real problem for the RNC is that the person who by far comes off the best has the initial FDR. “Progress is not measured by those who have to much getting more. Progress is measured by those with too little getting enough”. Also, “No person, no party and no nation can by itself assure world prospertiy and peace. Fot that it takes all people, all parties and all nations.”
I bet what really bothers the GOP is how much better progressives like FDR come off than their heros.
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Q1 is a trick question.
Ronald Reagan is the messiah.
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Wait until the first public high school curriculum to mention that the “good” (read: white) guys at the Alamo were fighting for slavery in Texas.
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The new Framework continues its theme of oppression and conflict by reinterpreting Manifest Destiny from a belief that America had a mission to spread democracy and new technologies across the continent to something that 'was built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority.
Ahhh yes, Manifest Destiny: Making the World Safe for Democracy.
I think FDR did that during the Civil War. Could be wrong.
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Probably no mention of Jesus riding a dinosaur either.
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The proper place for this argument is Wikipedia.
The Reagan administration used an executive order easing immigration standards for 200,000 Nicaraguan exiles fleeing communism in 1987.
That year, Attorney General Edwin Meese instructed the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to ‘‘encourage and expedite Nicaraguan applications for work authorizations’’ and ordered the service to ‘‘encourage Nicaraguans whose claims for asylum or withholding of deportation have been denied to reapply for reopening or rehearing.’’
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“Instead of striving to build a ‘City upon a Hill,’ as generations of
students have been taught, the colonists are portrayed as bigots who developed ‘a rigid racial hierarchy’ that was in turn derived from ‘a strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority,’” conservatives are saying about the new advanced-placement (AP) exams unveiled by the College Board.
“The new Framework continues its theme of oppression and conflict by reinterpreting Manifest Destiny from a belief that America had a mission to spread democracy and new technologies across the continent to something that ‘was built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority,’” the Republican National Comittee, American Principles and Concerned Women for America argue in a letter to the Coll;ege Board protesting the new exam.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s more squawking and screeching by privileged whites (who make up nearly 100 percent of the membership of American Principles, the CWFA and the RNC) freaking out over the fact that America is becoming a “rainbow nation” in which whites are no longer the majority of the population.
In the immortal words of actor Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men,” I have this to say to the College Board’s ctitics: “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!”
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Yeah, the RNC doesn’t believe in revisionist history. Like their view that REAGAN as the greatest president in history and not the criminal who sold weapons to our enemy.
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