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nessuno:
That story really hits the nail on the head in regards to the state of our education system.
It is very frustrating. They learn more about people in black history :o
then American History in general.
What my daughter learned about Christopher Columbus is that he was bad to the poor Indians. Period! With no historical perspective.
Yet - they spend many days discussing the great and honorable MLK - every year.
That is why we are enjoying all the research we have done for this thread.
I think tonight we will look up Betsy Ross together - Thank You for the suggestion.
HiWarp:
--- Quote from: bullcat3 link=topic=9046.msg#msg date= ---That story really hits the nail on the head in regards to the state of our education system.
It is very frustrating. They learn more about people in black history :o
then American History in general.
What my daughter learned about Christopher Columbus is that he was bad to the poor Indians. Period! With no historical perspective.
Yet - they spend many days discussing the great and honorable MLK - every year.
That is why we are enjoying all the research we have done for this thread.
I think tonight we will look up Betsy Ross together - Thank You for the suggestion.
--- End quote ---
You're very welcome.
nessuno:
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
We learned alot about our beautiful flag in researching Betsy Ross last night.
You are right HiWarp - Children are not being taught about her - and I assumed they were.
My family attends every Veteran/patriotic event held in our community. Often my child is the only child in attendance. We discuss our freedoms - how they are maintained - symbols of it etc. all the time...and yet my daughter did not know who Betsy Ross was.
I know there is some question to the validity of her story...but I think teaching about her is an excellent way to teach about that one great symbol - our beautiful American Flag -- and that period in our history.
We also learned how to cut a 5 pointed star in one snip.
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagstar.html
HiWarp:
--- Quote from: bullcat3 link=topic=9046.msg#msg date= ---http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
We learned alot about our beautiful flag in researching Betsy Ross last night.
You are right HiWarp - Children are not being taught about her - and I assumed they were.
My family attends every Veteran/patriotic event held in our community. Often my child is the only child in attendance. We discuss our freedoms - how they are maintained - symbols of it etc. all the time...and yet my daughter did not know who Betsy Ross was.
I know there is some question to the validity of her story...but I think teaching about her is an excellent way to teach about that one great symbol - our beautiful American Flag -- and that period in our history.
We also learned how to cut a 5 pointed star in one snip.
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagstar.html
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Thanks for the links bullcat. Reading them takes me back to my days in grade school. It's a shame that "educators" today, and I use the term very loosely, consider Afro-American history to be more relevant than this and other aspects of American history.
nessuno:
:'( sadly true. We are the ones that are going to have to be vigilant now and fill in the gaps!
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