re: Common core continues to indoctrinate the young, with bogus history

True, very true

One of hone best history professors I ever had at LSU was Gaines Foster. In his course the new south he routinely has us read two books back to back that discussed the same events and time period from vastly different perspectives. I found that to be a very effective method to show that depending on your place in said events, the interpretation could be very different.

History is not a collection of facts or dates, history is a telling of events and being able to critically examine the author's interpretation is key to understanding the events.

I agree with that statement, and that does give one more balance and the individual the chance to understand why history unfolded the way it did, when it's balanced.

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Not saying it's untrue, but there's no real way to confirm that this report is accurate.

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But you can confirm that this report is inaccurate, since there are no social studies common core standards.

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The new standards focus on a students ability to use various texts and various authors to examine the different perspectives of the same events

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E.g., This Text targeting 4th graders

Presentation of BS placed on par with fact is EXACTLY what evolutionists rightly rail against in science curricula.

First of all the linked text is not a required text and secondly are the facts presented in that book inaccurate? I don't know because I haven't read it and I assume you haven't either. What I am talking about is understanding that the sharecroppers of the delta may have a different view of the 1927 Mississippi flood than the plantation owners. It's about perspective. Both views have merit and both views need to be understood. The fact is the river flooded. The impacts were different for different groups that were affected

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The Americans (history textbook):


The Second – grant citizens the right to bear arms as members of a militia of citizen-soldiers

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Fact. Also those arms did not have interchangeable parts at the time of the signing.

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and secondly are the facts presented in that book inaccurate?

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yes

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One of hone best history professors I ever had at LSU was Gaines Foster. In his course the new south he routinely has us read two books back to back that discussed the same events and time period from vastly different perspectives. I found that to be a very effective method to show that depending on your place in said events, the interpretation could be very different.

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Taking a history class in college is much different from taking history in sixth grade. This worksheet doesn't cite any academic source, it doesn't present a counter perspective, it simply presents an historically inaccurate opinion as fact.

Read through the federalist papers and Madison's personal writings. It is clear that the intent of the Second Amendment goes well beyond to formation and arming of militias (and not just state militias as presented in the worksheet.)

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History is not a collection of facts or dates, history is a telling of events and being able to critically examine the author's interpretation is key to understanding the events.

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Then the sixth graders should examine Madison's intent because it is vastly different than what is presented here.

Common Core is bacon-wrapped shite. The idea of skill-based standards isn't the problem. The problem is that the approved texts are loaded with agenda-driven bullshite.

It's just another reason to have your children educated by someone other than the government.

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How so?

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e.g., this jewel: "Sure Barack was a nice fellow, they said. But white voters would never vote for a black president”