Have our schools failed to teach a generation the history of the Democratic leaders?

Question

Why are people not learning about John Kerry, Billand Hillary Clinton and their traveling to Communist countries protesting against America? Why are our schools not teaching about Ted Kennedy murdering hi Girl friend?Why has Ted Kennedy been given a free pass when he to protested in communist countries against America!~!

Answer 1

Democrats...Hypocrisy at its finest!

Answer 2

Y E S and that is the result of the Politically Correct Public School System in this country!

Answer 3

I learned about that Ted Kennedy incident in school... Schools today don't have that many if at all "current" event classes. They also don't support communism, they support socialism. If you cannot see the difference, I beg for you to get the education and not the children.

Answer 4

You mean the history that is only in your head, the empty dark place filled with hate and Rush Limbaugh. Schools should stick to facts not whacked out rants.

Answer 5

To liberal teachers, all liberal leaders are heroes. They emulate them and thus, the corruption and immorality that we have today is a direct result of such indoctrination

Answer 6

As far as history books:

Dumbing down history textbooks

Since 1989, the Council has identified many problems with history textbooks. In American Textbook Council reports and in persuasive books such as Sandra Stotsky, Losing Our Language and Diane Ravitch, The Language Police, textbook critics reach the same conclusions. Textbook content is thinner and thinner, and what there is, it is increasingly deformed by identity politics and pressure groups.

The first history textbook problem is what educators, critics and journalists informally refer to as "dumbing down." Many history textbooks reflect lowered sights for general education. They raise basic questions about sustaining literacy and civic understanding in a democratic polity and culture. Bright photographs, broken format and seductive color overwhelm the text and confuse the page. Typeface is larger and looser, resulting in many fewer words and much more white space. The text disappears or gets lost. Among editors, phrases such as "text-heavy," "information-loaded," "fact-based," and "non-visual" are negatives. A picture, they insist, tells a thousand words.

This declining textbook quality is neither a right nor a left issue. Publishers are adjusting to short attention spans and non-readers. Too many children cannot or do not want to read history, which contains concrete facts and complicated concepts, reading that requires some facility with language. So textbooks become picture and activity books instead.

The second history textbook problem -- increasing content bias and distortion -- involves political judgments. The critique of distorted content in history is, of course, a problematic one. One person's distortion is another's correction. Yet the list of textbook activists grows. It spans gender, ethnic, religious, environmental and nutrition causes that want to use textbooks to advance their agendas.

http://www.historytextbooks.org/senate.htm

I wanted to know why we did not know about 9-11-1973 and this is what I found out:


Monday, September 17, 2007
Remember 9-11! 1973

From TokyoSpring



On September the 11th 1973, the United States of America played its part in the most tragic events in the history of another country, Chile. A democratically elected president, Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity party were overthrown in a coup d'etat organised and funded by the Chilean latifundistas, industrialists and ruling class along with the CIA and the United States government. President Richard Nixon had ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile to "prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him." Once Allende was elected however, they did much more than that. Actively assisting in the military operation by the fascists led by General Augusto Pinochet, they made everyday working people scream in horror, pain and anguish as their husbands, wives, sons and daughters, friends and lovers were rounded up, tortured and shot. Many simply "disappeared".

This is the legacy of US foreign policy, in a world of capitalism and imperialism. In the month of September, remember the working people of Chile, along with the poor and impoverished of the world.


Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973 by Peter Kornbluh.

Remembering Chile's 9-11 by Paul Street ( from Z-Net - an old article from 2003, but informative)

Dates and Events in Chile 1973 (from Derechos Chile)

http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/weblog/print/remember-9-11-1973/

Two 9/11s, one story


To understand better what happened in New York in 2001, go back to Chile in 1973

Roger Burbach
Thursday September 11, 2003
The Guardian

On the morning of September 11 I watched aircraft flying overhead. Minutes later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky. As a result of these attacks thousands died, including two good friends.

I am not writing about September 11 2001 in New York City. I am writing about another September 11 - an equally horrible one - in 1973. The planes I saw were warplanes and their target was the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. These two September 11s are related in many ways, and both help us understand why George Bush has led the US into a quagmire in Iraq.

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On September 11 1973 Salvador Allende resided in the Chilean presidential palace. He was the first freely elected socialist leader in the world, and ever since his victory in September 1970, the CIA and the US government, headed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, were determined to oust Allende and his Popular Unity coalition.

It was on September 11 1973 that they succeeded. Led by General Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean military overthrew Allende, who died in the presidential palace. More than 3,000 people perished in the bloody repression that followed under Pinochet's rule, including two American friends of mine, Charles Horman and Frank Terrugi.

Prior to the attack on the Pentagon on September 11 2001, the most sensational foreign-led terrorist action in Washington had been carried out by a team of operatives sent by the Pinochet regime. On September 21 1976, agents of the Chilean secret police organisation, Dina, detonated a car bomb just blocks from the White House, killing a leading opponent of Pinochet's, Orlando Letelier, and his assistant, Ronni Moffitt.

These assassinations were linked to the first international terrorist network in the west, Operation Condor. Begun in 1974 at the instigation of the Chilean secret police, it was made up by the intelligence services of at least six South American countries that collaborated in tracking, kidnapping and assassinating political opponents. Based on documents divulged under the Chile Declassification Project of the Clinton administration, it is now recognised that the CIA knew about these international terrorist activities and may have abetted them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1039750,00.html

It appears that classified information is simply a way of hiding true motives and events.

Answer 7

Beecause we good old boys wif big guns knows more than them librals with fancy schmancy youniversitee degreys.

Answer 8

Because schools are suppose to teach children useful subjects, not poison their minds nor shape their political ideology.

Answer 9

Why is Lincoln given a single page in some history texts? Kids are being fed liberal drivel in the form of fact in school texts...ask a kid to make a rational argument, you get, "My teacher says..." and out pops some 60's liberal garbage...That's why I refused to send my kids to public school.

Answer 10

Apparently they have, judging by the question here.