[Correcting previous post - can't Wikipedia have editable posts?]
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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?
Doesn't that make the "board of education" part of the problem?
Carcharoth