[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

[Charlotte Webb]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Nationalism is a major factor in school social studies curricula, and a
> great medium for indoctrinating the child with official truth.  Access to
> Wikipedia and other on-line sources helps him to formulate the
> questions that needed to challenge the teachers of those truths.

History textbooks tend to lie by omission but the board of education
will be loathe to approve anything that explicitly encourages students
to look elsewhere for the director's cut. They don't want to deal with
the fallout when students report back to class asking why their
curriculum bears no mention of the Mỹ Lai massacre, the bombing of
Dresden, Operation Northwoods, the Bonus Army, the School of the
Americas handbook, Martin Luther King's FBI fan-mail, Jonestown, or
the Tuskegee Study, etc. Indeed, who would?

—C.W.