I've seen several articles that said things sounding remarkably similar to the tainted, incomplete, or just inaccurate stuff they tell me in school. For example, I saw an article called "War Hawks" where the only text was, "John C Calhoun was a member of the War Hawks."  Recently, in history class, I was told that John Calhoun was a war hawk, but it was phrased as a statement of fact.  They didn't even mention that 'war hawk' was a derogatory term. I can easily see how a kid who doesn't question school could have written an article like that.

daniwo59@aol.com wrote:

In a similar vein, someone wrote an article called "Separate but equal." Agreed, it wasn't written very well, but a few quick edits turned it into a stub that can be built up into an important article. My sense is that the article was written by a kid (no offense, LittleDan), but it still had some valuable material and this important topic was not covered at all. Now, at least, we have a stub on which we can build.