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Forgive me Miss Hamilton hard as you tried, I don't remmber this guy.

I can't wait to see what they are going to do to math, science, and english.

This has been portrayed as a liberal plot, not realizing that as stated all reference to the slave trade, slavery and the civil war would be lost. Frankly, everyone hates the concept.

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Fox News Incorrectly Says North Carolina Schools May Cut Out Part of U.S. History
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Abraham Lincoln stil a part of U.S. history Educators in North Carolina want to restructure the teaching of American history, provoking outrage among some parents and conservative organizations fearful of revisionism.


To give high school students the opportunity to delve deeper into 20th century U.S. history, the state board of education is proposing to limit classes in eleventh grade to events and subjects from 1877 on. This change resulted in an alarmist story by Fox News that gave the impression students wouldn’t learn about Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War, let alone the Founding Fathers or the American Revolution.

In actuality, early U.S. history would be taught in elementary and junior high school, freeing up high school instructors to spend more time on key modern periods. The change comes in response to criticism that the history curriculum was “a mile wide and an inch deep.”

Despite assurances from state education officials that early American history would still be taught in public schools, Called2Action chairman Steve Noble complained that “progressive, historical revisionism” was trying to “undermine the Judeo-Christian heritage of our nation.”

Actually, the plan calls for tenth-graders to study the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, while eleventh-graders would focus on history after 1877.
-Noel Brinkerhoff

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North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

By Molly Henneberg


ADVERTISEMENTHe may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools, U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.

State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."

As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.

Math, science and English classes are also getting an update.

Critics say the state's decade-old high school curriculum may need an update — but not like this.

"The answer isn't to throw out fundamental portions of U.S. history," said Mike Belter, a U.S. history teacher and social studies director. "This is not preparing our kids to have a deep historical perspective that can be used to analyze modern events for themselves."

Educational policy analyst Terry Stoops agrees.

"I'm all for a global outlook, but it should not be at the expense of American history and learning about American institutions and ideas," he told Fox News.

But those considering the proposal say kids will still learn the basics.

"The students are in school for 13 years," said Garland. "They certainly are taught U.S. and North Carolina history in middle school."

Garland says they're making this curriculum revision process very public to get as much feedback as possible.

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Despite assurances from state education officials that early American history would still be taught in public schools, Called2Action chairman Steve Noble complained that “progressive, historical revisionism” was trying to “undermine the Judeo-Christian heritage of our nation.”



Translation: "I and my fellow wingers have not been very successful trying to sneak our local southern evangelical Protestant influence into the public school curriculum. We have not been able to persuade the courts or the more sane statesmen among us that things like prayer and Bible reading in the public schools are consistent with the Second Amendment. Those who do not agree with us are enemies of the Judeo-Christian heritage of this nation. Therefore we will continue to regard public officials and interested citizens who disagree with us on this constitutional issue as agents of Satan!"

Here is some more information on Noble and his fellow nuts:

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/...owards-resegregation

As additional information, the link describes the racist undercurrent that drives these malcontents.
I have to admit I like Mike Huckabee because he actually makes some sense when he talks, unlike some of the leading contenders for the Republican nomination in 2012.
HOWEVER, for me one of his ideas is a no start for me. He wants to change the Constitution to match what the Bible says.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D08Dq_iNMRk
(and you thought I was off topic Cool )
We must be very leery of anyone who wishes to impose their particular religious belief upon our school children. This is exactly the reason for the separation of church and state guaranteed in the Constitution ( Christine O'Donald notwithstanding)

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