h/t Gates of Vienna
...Education Secretary Michael Gove was horrified by a recent survey that found that half of English 18 to 24-year-olds were unaware that Nelson led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, while a similar proportion did not know that the Romans built Hadrians Wall.
...Last year, less than 30 per cent of 16-year-olds in comprehensive schools were entered for GCSE History, compared with 55 per cent of pupils in grammar schools and 48 per cent in private schools.
Alarmingly, there were 159 comprehensives where not a single pupil was entered for GCSE History; and in a majority of state secondaries, less than a quarter of pupils now take the exam.
...Teachers in comprehensives appear more likely to put their pupils forward for soft subjects such as Media Studies, which are less valued by employers.
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All most of 'em want to know is "when does the looting start up again..."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/19/2011 6:35 Comments ||
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#3
It's no better over here. Our public high schools make sure to tell kids about Hitler's atrocities 100 times before they graduate (which is a good thing) but none of the students have heard of Stalin even once.
This is purposeful. It's an attempt by the teachers' unions, leftist organizations that they are, to indoctrinate students to believe that evil only comes from right or centrist politics and never from the left.
Don't believe me? Check it out. Take a look at a high school history textbook some time. Look at a syllabus. Our taxpayer funded public schools do NOT in the main teach about the communist holocausts.
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Don't forget their painting of the Nazi's as 'right wing' when they weren't. That the right was responsible for slavery and the left spearheaded the civil rights movement. The KKK was a right wing organization. Revisionist history.
And it was that way even back when I was in high school in the 70's.
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Our public high schools make sure to tell kids about Hitler's atrocities 100 times before they graduate (which is a good thing) but none of the students have heard of Stalin even once.
Stalin gave the communists a bad name. So now they call themselves Democrats.
#8
This is why I write historical fiction - strong emphasis on the historical, along with all the research that implies - especially reading original material; letters, memoirs and first-hand reports. We have to know our history, where we came from, who and what our ancestors were, what an amazing concept that the American experiment was. Yes, there were shadows on that bright sunny aspect- there are shadows in anyone elses' national history too - but there was amazing courage, optimism, creativity. We have to know our history, otherwise we are floating in a kind of cultural sensory-deprivation tank. I'm coming around to believe that is what the edu-cultural pooh-bahs actually want: a large, ignorant mob, easily led.
That being said - can I bleg Rantburgundians for some Christmas gift potential attention to my books? I have six out there now, the most recent two came out this year, touching on interesting times in the Republic of Texas ... which, believe me, was more than just the Alamo.
(and if anyone is getting a Kindle ... all six are available in Kindle editions...)
#10
Ebbang Uluque6305: While they are told about Hitler and the Holocaust, it is just a mention, and the teachers do not go into any detail. This is actually worse, because students just think of the Nazis as little more than 'snazzy uniforms'.
#12
BP, msnbc has a commercial for themselves which says exactly that.
We also have a presidential candidate who says JFK just called up Kruschev and said pretty please remove those nukes, and Kruschev replied sure diddly do.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
