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Changes to history curriculum

Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:46 pm
Posted by BrodyDad
Member since Dec 2025
429 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:46 pm
If you were in charge of such things, what is one historical fact that you believe is overlooked or ignored that you feel is essential to be taught in public schools for US history? At what grade level should this fact first be taught?

My vote would be the truth about how the Federal Reserve was formed. It is higher level stuff, but it should be taught in High School US History.
Posted by Junky
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2005
9352 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:48 pm to
Andrew Jackson’s fight with the central bank.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
60699 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:49 pm to
All they teach in history class is the Underground Railroad and the holocaust
Posted by OchoDedos
Republic of Texas
Member since Oct 2014
40441 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:51 pm to
quote:


My vote would be the truth about how the Federal Reserve was formed. It is higher level stuff, but it should be taught in High School US History.

" anyone...anyone...anyone..."
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
51324 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:55 pm to
The infamous train trip
Posted by goatmilker
Castle Anthrax
Member since Feb 2009
77700 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 5:55 pm to
Go back to shop.
Go back to Civics.
Go back to health.
Teach the Constitution.

Posted by BrodyDad
Member since Dec 2025
429 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:03 pm to
quote:

anyone...anyone...anyone..."


Look, I know it is dry, but "The Creature From Jekyll Island" would help with that.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
50208 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:12 pm to
Over 600,000 Americans died to end slavery in the USA. Past time for the race grifters to stfu & show some gratitude.
This post was edited on 9/27/26 at 6:13 pm
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
27105 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:19 pm to
Civics and how communicating with your political representative as if he or she is your biotch is highly effective. People get upset with the government employee which does the people no good whatsoever.

Always call the boss of their boss, the politician. Send certified letters also. If they perform, donate.
Posted by GetmorewithLes
UK Basketball Fan
Member since Jan 2011
23719 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:22 pm to
quote:

My vote would be the truth about how the Federal Reserve was formed. It is higher level stuff, but it should be taught in High School US History.


Are you kidding? They are not even teaching classical American History anymore.
Posted by Sp0728
Your head
Member since Aug 2018
2437 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:23 pm to
Bolshevik massacre

Gislaine Maxwell’s dad controlling history books in US



Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
24529 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:25 pm to
FDR’s public campaign to get people behind social security, including pastors, and the promises made about the program in order to sell it, compared to the current program.

Same with fed income tax. Original structure and promises versus current.
This post was edited on 9/27/26 at 6:27 pm
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
27105 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:26 pm to
quote:

My vote would be the truth about how the Federal Reserve was formed. It is higher level stuff, but it should be taught in High School US History.


"The Creature From Jeckyl Island" should be required reading in high school. Students really need to understand why fiat money is unconstitutional.

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild, patriarch of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
22259 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:27 pm to
I'd have to insist on the study of the gay bar conflicts and uprisings in New York during the 1970s following the 1969 Stonewall uprising.

You know these trials and tribulations are very important parts of our civil rights?
Posted by EasterEgg
New Orleans Metro
Member since Sep 2018
5567 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:39 pm to
I discovered a couple days ago that my 12 year old did not know the significance of 1492. And that he has only heard of Christopher Columbus. I learned about him in kindergarten.
Posted by olehickory1767
Member since Dec 2024
328 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:47 pm to
I concur with this.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
118014 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:51 pm to
The history of slavery.

Not just the abbreviated transatlantic slave trade where African slaves magically appeared on the western coasts of Africa to be snapped up by Dutch and Spanish merchants to be sold in the New World (mainly in South American and the Caribbean), but the entire history including its continuing practice in Islamic countries.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
17913 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:53 pm to
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Teach the Constitution.

You gotta be specific. That means "living Constitution" to most.

The Constitution was meant to restrict the government, not to "give" freedom to citizens.

Read Bastiat, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, and profit.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
159772 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:57 pm to
quote:

I discovered a couple days ago that my 12 year old did not know the significance of 1492
"1776 - dat when dey discover America" - overheard in a convenience store
Posted by goatmilker
Castle Anthrax
Member since Feb 2009
77700 posts
Posted on 9/27/26 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

Teach the Constitution.

You gotta be specific.


No. I don't. You teach what it says and what that means. And you try your best. Thats it. Rest takes care of itself.
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