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eppur_se_muova

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4. We're certainly not #1 in education, and never have been.

Reply to mother earth (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2015, 12:00 PM

Aug 2015

It's all part of the right-wing mythical Golden Age, before the little people started gettin' uppity. EVERYTHING was better before those durned lib'rals screwed it up. We need to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK !^™ And we start by having the Ministry of Truth force Newspeak on the next generation.

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Republicans To History Teachers: “You Can Only Say America Is #1” [View all] mother earth Aug 2015 OP

What a cowardly, pathetic country to let this stand. One more way to teach the kids hate. jtuck004 Aug 2015 #1

We are actually preventing education, we are lying by omission & promoting a false history. mother earth Aug 2015 #2

K through 12 is hopeless HassleCat Aug 2015 #3

We're certainly not #1 in education, and never have been. eppur_se_muova Aug 2015 #4

Americana.... V0ltairesGh0st Aug 2015 #5

The fundamental problem with this is that history is what actually happened. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #6

"radically revisionist view of American history" annabanana Aug 2015 #7

Ultimately the Republicans are trying to kill critical thinking and this is just part of the program Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #8