Thread: NC UPDATE on possible changes to U.S History curriculum

Got this in an email so there is no link.
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Update on the February 6 Legislative Report on N.C. Proposals for Changing the High School History Curriculum

On February 3, 2010 Fox News reported that the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) had proposed only teaching high school history beginning with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877, that would have eliminated instruction on the founding of our nation and all American history prior to 1877.

In a telephone conversation on February 11, a representative from DPI Communications said that DPI had received over 3000 calls and comments in a week and that they are working on a new draft proposal that will split U.S. History into two classes, one from the founding to 1877 and the second from 1877 to date.

On Feb 11, WRAL.com reported opposition on the initial proposal from Holly Brewer, Associate Professor of Early American History at N.C. State University , and from Governor Beverly Perdue.

DPI said there will be several rounds of revision, and that a second draft should be ready for the N.C. Board of Education to review in March. It could take up to a year to finalize the curriculum plans and changes will not be effective until 2013 or later.

The website is: www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/phase2. Or www.ncpublicschools.org (read several prompters to get to the draft 1.0 Revised Social Studies standards.) Some of the ideas for teaching history from 1877 to present are still worrisome as noted in the Feb 6 Legislative Report. Tracy Greggs is the point-of-contact; telephone is 919 807-3836 or email tgreggs@dpi.state.nc.us. Linda Fuller is in DPI Communications, telephone is 919 807-3475. June Atkinson is the State Superintendent, telephone is 919 807-3430.

Our North Carolina Governor and lawmakers need to hunt down every single person responsible for trying to remove the founding of America history from our classes and FIRE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

W

I would guess they don't want to back up to a earlier date, so people don't know about the 14th Amendment which was NEVER properly ratified as you can read for yourself in these documents.
Keep your eyes on the ball folks...

http://www.civil-liberties.com/cases/14con.html


http://www.examiner.com/x-14129-Grand-R ... know-Pt-II

http://www.pacinlaw.org/pdf/sup/Congres ... d_1967.pdf

Can someone do some tests of the air quality in the DPI offices? I assumed these people were professionals that were handed this responsibility to oversee our schools, but it seems that there is evidence of them having suddenly become perquacky.
I don't remember anything astounding that Rutherford B. Hayes did in office.

I hear tell that the Global Warming gave them all heat strokes............

Sounds like the Howard Zinn Army of zombies is on the move. Zinn, very influential in academic and educational circles, ignores the tremendous progress achieved in this world because of Western values, and focuses in on a relatively small collection of transgressions.

If I had to choose, I would choose to teach (or take) Americn History up to 1877 in stead of the history following it. Those years, from the discovery of the Americas to 1877 were the formative years. If we do not understand them, we understand nothing. It would be impossible to put all of post-1877 history into context or to understand it.