Ralph, Wait! You mean John Wayne didn't win the West?? George Washington didn't chop down his daddy's cherry tree?
Seriously, your points are well taken. I've got a few years on ya, and I learned the same -you'll pardon the expression - white-washed version of American History you describe.
At least when I was in what is now called…
Ralph, Wait! You mean John Wayne didn't win the West?? George Washington didn't chop down his daddy's cherry tree?
Seriously, your points are well taken. I've got a few years on ya, and I learned the same -you'll pardon the expression - white-washed version of American History you describe.
At least when I was in what is now called 'middle school', we did learn civics, by which I mean, the mechanics of how it's all supposed to work.
When my daughter was in middle school in NC, in the 1990s, civics had become a mere shadow of its former self, and was bundled into 'social studies', which was a mish-mash of some history, some geography, and very little clarity and NO depth. I was horrified.
I have never been a fan of home schooling, but if I had school age kids now, and the local system followed the Trumpian dictates, I would become a home schooler in a skinny minute.
Ralph, Wait! You mean John Wayne didn't win the West?? George Washington didn't chop down his daddy's cherry tree?
Seriously, your points are well taken. I've got a few years on ya, and I learned the same -you'll pardon the expression - white-washed version of American History you describe.
At least when I was in what is now called 'middle school', we did learn civics, by which I mean, the mechanics of how it's all supposed to work.
When my daughter was in middle school in NC, in the 1990s, civics had become a mere shadow of its former self, and was bundled into 'social studies', which was a mish-mash of some history, some geography, and very little clarity and NO depth. I was horrified.
I have never been a fan of home schooling, but if I had school age kids now, and the local system followed the Trumpian dictates, I would become a home schooler in a skinny minute.