Brigid
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Sat Sep-10-11 03:32 AM
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What is in your son or daughter's history books about the history of the labor movement in this country? Anything about the Knights of Labor or the Molly Maguires? Blair Mountain? The steel strikes of the '50's? Harlan County, KY?
Just curious; I didn't learn about most of these things until later, piecemeal. I wonder if things have improved.
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Sat Sep-10-11 03:41 AM
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1. A good question to be asked and answered |
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I have no school age children, so I cannot contribute beyond a K&R, but I will gladly do that much. :kick: And because I believe this "smiley" is simply not used often enough I will add..... :donut:
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Sat Sep-10-11 03:47 AM
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2. I have 1 just graduated, and 1 just starting highschool.. |
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I'll ask her and relay her answer to you.
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Sat Sep-10-11 03:59 AM
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3. I think I remember about the steel strikes |
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But not the others. It's been a while.
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Sat Sep-10-11 05:30 AM
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I went to school and live in Texas, what's a union? :sarcasm:
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Sat Sep-10-11 06:14 AM
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5. My boy is in 10th grade |
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and their class is called Global Studies.
No text has come home. Plus I think it is a study of other countries and cultures.
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Sat Sep-10-11 06:45 AM
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talk about knights of labor, steel strikes, triangle shirtwaist company, labor movement. Its the beginning of the school year so he's made it from preColumbian times to revolution war so far so can't tell anymore yet because he's not actually studied that part yet. His is AP USA history so its more indepth than average.
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Sat Sep-10-11 06:47 AM
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7. at my daughter's charter high school they read Howard Zinn |
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I do at least know that the standard course of study for NC now includes a lot more focus on Latin America and Africa. We NEVER studied that in K-12. Everything was so eurocentric.
I'm not happy that the economics part of the standard course of study is utterly neoliberal economics. That's another place where labor could be discussed, but they're just "human capital" from the neoliberal perspective.
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Sat Sep-10-11 07:44 AM
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8. When I was in high school in 2007, |
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Edited on Sat Sep-10-11 07:45 AM by Zephie
I know we had it all in our textbooks but what we covered did not include those sections despite of being an honors Am. Hist course. However the teacher was very conservative and that may have been her decision and not true of the rest of the course work the other social studies teachers gave.
Edit for Android phone autocorrect
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Sat Sep-10-11 09:14 AM
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9. I remember learning some of it back in junior high |
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but I grew up in a labor-friendly area. By the time I started high school in a different state there was no further discussion of anything relating to labor.
A friend has said that her son, who graduated from high school last year, was only taught that unions basically ruined the country. She's having a hell of a time teaching him differently.
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