The mucking around in the history curriculum by the school board in Arvada, Colorado, is just the same old pablum Lynne Cheney began pushing in the '90s and '00s (and still today). The idea is that the purpose of teaching history should be to make the kids believe that America (i.e., the White Guys) never did anything wrong. As a kid who went to school in the '50s and '60s in Wisconsin, I can tell you that we had pretty good public schools. But we were pretty much taught the way Lynne Cheney wants. When we found out how we'd been lied to all those years, it was a major contributor to the radicalization that happened in the '60s and '70s. I'm happy to be American, but there is nothing wrong with learning the truth, warts and all. What are all you conservatives afraid of?
This, of course, isn't Ms Cheney's only foray into censorship of ideas. After 9/11, the group she co-founded--the American Council of Trustees and Alumni--tried to blacklist as un-American those who didn't sufficiently bow to the Bush/Cheney line, greasing the wheels for the misinformation that led to the Iraq War disaster.
It would be tough to be a parent today, worrying about what kind of nonsense these fringy conservative school boards are trying to force into the schools.
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