North Carolina has decided to update their high school curriculum, and in doing so, have chosen to start America’s history with the year 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes’ administration. Seems funny to me, especially for one of the original thirteen colonies to skip over that part entirely.
Well, let’s see. Did anything really important happen before 1877? That’s certainly the year I always think of when I think of American history.
If any of you can think of anything that the students will be missing out on, let me know. I’m just blank.
Just like North Carolina students will be.
Oh, and they’re going to add a course called Global Studies. It will focus on the environment, and other things. Sorry I missed out on that one.
I hope we see a huge increase in homeschooling in North Carolina, and a big spike in sales of out-of-print American history books. You know, the ones that include all that minor silly stuff that happened before 1877.
Sounds suspiciously like a move to completely eradicate any knowledge whatsoever of how America came into existence, the writing of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and a time when soon-to-be Americans fought for freedom from taxation without representation and the tyranny they despised.
If you can’t beat the Tea Parties, just stop teaching about the first one.
If you don’t want people hankering after freedom, just ignore that first shot heard ’round the world.
Pretend it never happened.
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That’s exactly what they intend to do. Make like it never happened. Guess what? There are too many of us out here that aren’t going to allow that to happen. Just saying.
Have a terrific day.
Great comments on this topic, Pup. The Progressive agenda is always about “change”, eh?
That Civil War thingy disappears also. Mindless scum, for lack of a better quick term.
The libs’ ignorance will be their downfall.
Thanks to blogs like this and many others, and FOX, and conservative talk radio, “We The People” are alert, aware, and on post.
I feel that as we get closer to November election time, we will see the Obama administration yank all the stops out from under our economy in order to attempt to display to America that he, the Obama, can save us.
I hope I’m wrong.
The tacticians in his administration are socialistic in nature.
Obama hates the American Philosophy.
The wrecking ball that is going through our economy swings from the White House.
I miss George and Laura.
AFVET: Lets not forget little george started the whole bailout process in his dimwitted attempt to save capitalism by killing it. If he had come out and made an intelligible statement to the effect that those that deserved to fail would be free to do so and the government was not going to intervene and had no authority to then everything could have turned out differently. And Paulson and Bernanke were his appointments for whom he must answer. Seems to me that never in the last 100 years or so of American history have two such utter incompetents held the top office and whether it will be possible to recover from this deadly duo is an open question. That’s not to say comrade zero isn’t far more dangerous but he is following the path laid out by his predecessor.
You know what – GW Bush has been out of office for over a year. In fact, Democrats have been in control of Congress since 2006.
In fact, President GW Bush tried – in vain – to regulate Fanny & Freddie back in 2006, 2+ years before the housing meltdown. And who thwarted him? Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks – all Democrats. Oh yeah and one more – Barack Obama. Who voted in favor of the bailouts too.
If you are going to point fingers, get them going in the right direction.
It’s time to let Mr. Bush go and focus on the here-and-now. It’s time for Democrats to man-up, take responsibility for their own messes and stop foisting blame anywhere but where it belongs.
There will be more states like the delusional North Carolina who will try to rewrite history in favor of their own agenda. I am reminded of my favorite words from the document that many citizens forget gave us the liberties and freedoms they so often take for granted:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
It seems that the left just will not learn from history, or they are incapable of it, so they only wish to change it so that the rest of us know the history they want on the books…..which is a lie. Trouble is, history is never much more than one generation out of all of us knowing the truth. History books get changed, teaching changes, viola, new history, no one knows what really happened. Great post my friend.
Thanks for all the comments. Thanks Kris, for standing up for Pres. Bush in my absence.
Well said Kris.
Bush tried many many times to stop the downward spiral of the mortgage mess.
Carter started that, Clinton accelerated it.
Those of you who believe the current mess was caused by the democrats without participation by the reps are delusional. This is and was totally a bipartisan accomplishment. You can point to one party as being more to blame for a particular aspect but the other party is to blame for different ones. The reps controlled both houses of congress and the presidency for SIX YEARS and just what did they clean up during that time? Which administration was it that started us down the slippery bailout slope? The donkey and the elephant both need to be euthanized and failing to realize that just helps to perpetuate the undeserved life of the bloated and dysfunctional DC abomination, may it rot.
Item that was published in The Boston Globe, November 25, 2006:
Also from The Boston Globe, dated July 13, 2008:
From US News and World Report, October 6, 2008:
Dang that Bush!
Sneed, I can only speak for myself, and won’t try to speak for the others, but I know that this current mess is not solely at the hands of the Democrats. Kris is correct when she says that Pres. Bush tried to rein in the mortgage/give-a-house-to-anybody requirements for the banks. At the same time, I didn’t like the “No child left behind” act, nor did I like some of the other spending sprees that Congress has been on for the past 20 years. FWIW, I believe that Republicans have been almost as guilty, maybe as guilty, of over-spending and expanding government over the past 20 years as the Dims. I don’t see the GOP’s motive though as one of intentional Marxism, like I do the Dims.
That said, I remain a firm supporter of George Bush for the stance he took after we were attacked.