US History starts in 1877

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according to North Carolina. 200 years is too much to study? Must suck to be Chinese.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."
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North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com

and America gets dumber 1 state at a time
 
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Are they kidding? Any kid who cannot process a basic American history class isn't someone that should be catered to anyways.
 
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It's all about making sure the "students are connected to it." Such hip thinking. They should just Twitter them through the education system.
 
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Let me get this straight, we can't comprehend 250 years of American History, but have mo problem going over 10000+ years of world history?
 
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They have to don't you know? The textbooks that carry all the information are just too heavy for kids to carry any more! When these massive books are placed in a backpack the kids start having back problems. Geeze, I thought everyone would buy this!
 
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did you see the crap they're going to be teaching instead of US History prior to 1877?

9th grade - How to be an environmental fascist

10th grade - Multiculturalism, why white people no longer matter

11th grade - Social and economic justice

12 grade - Feminist studies - all men are pigs
 
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How about starting it November 2008 - I mean that's when the new transformation era began...
 
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US in high-schools here it starts at 1877.

Supposedly 8th grade is everything prior to 1877.
And soon it will be:
9th World History OR Geography
10th Civics and Government
11th U.S. History
12th Econ / Personal Finance
 
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True story:

The history book I had in second grade (1980) made mention of the "recent" independence of The Philippines from the US as a commonwealth. My guess was that the book was published in the mid 1950's.
 
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The oldest school book I ever had was some drivers ed book during my Sophomore year of HS. I think it was written in 1975 or something like that.
 
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History in many schools is just memorization of names, places, and dates. Some may add revisionist thinking in there as well. Soon we will have the Zinn version of history as a required reading in these classes.

Looking back at my own years in US history in high school, we never even covered post WWII. We never got there. This even happened in elementary school. We spent time on everything and by the time WWII was taught, it was time to wind down the school year with the social science fair projects, watching movies in class to stall, etc. Spring break on was just coasting out for the teachers.
 
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