The new teaching "standards"
F U Florida.
I started schooling in the North East. My family moved south, but barely into The South.
I remember hearing in my school "Some black people benifited from slavery because they learned valuable skills like blacksmithing."
To the shock of my classmates I immediately called bullsh*t.
"They wouldn't have needed to BE blacksmiths if they were home in Africa!"
Some other gems being believed in my class:
1) But We gave them CiViLiZAtiON!
2) They'd be farmers in Africa or America so it didnt effect the course of their lives /where/ they did it. They'd still be poor.
3) Farming is farming. The farming workload was exactly the same as in Africa. If they produced more it was because we taught them better techniques.
3) Most people did not own slaves and most slave owners took very good care of their slaves because slaves were expensive. Most slaves were very well treated.
4) Slaves had a good life. Housing, clothes and food were given to them. They never had to worry.
5) The Civil War was never about slavery. It was about State rights. The victors always write the history, right? Right? The North is lying.
Ok? See? THIS CRAP? That was believed and taught and in textbooks! In my day! Not remotely "deepest South" location! It was only because I had been exposed to different textbooks that I was able to call bullsh*t.
But guess what answers were on the test?
That classroom & that textbook & those answers. Year after year. Class after class after class of kids.
Now I'm back in the NE and hear kids /here/ saying "The Civil War was never about slavery" ?
WTF IS THAT?
STOP THE INSANITY
I can tell kids to just GOOGLE what those States wrote as their reasons for starting our Civil War? Suprise!
But will they? Extra credit homework without any extra credit? Answers that will be marked WRONG on the test?
We're all f*cked.
I started schooling in the North East. My family moved south, but barely into The South.
I remember hearing in my school "Some black people benifited from slavery because they learned valuable skills like blacksmithing."
To the shock of my classmates I immediately called bullsh*t.
"They wouldn't have needed to BE blacksmiths if they were home in Africa!"
Some other gems being believed in my class:
1) But We gave them CiViLiZAtiON!
2) They'd be farmers in Africa or America so it didnt effect the course of their lives /where/ they did it. They'd still be poor.
3) Farming is farming. The farming workload was exactly the same as in Africa. If they produced more it was because we taught them better techniques.
3) Most people did not own slaves and most slave owners took very good care of their slaves because slaves were expensive. Most slaves were very well treated.
4) Slaves had a good life. Housing, clothes and food were given to them. They never had to worry.
5) The Civil War was never about slavery. It was about State rights. The victors always write the history, right? Right? The North is lying.
Ok? See? THIS CRAP? That was believed and taught and in textbooks! In my day! Not remotely "deepest South" location! It was only because I had been exposed to different textbooks that I was able to call bullsh*t.
But guess what answers were on the test?
That classroom & that textbook & those answers. Year after year. Class after class after class of kids.
Now I'm back in the NE and hear kids /here/ saying "The Civil War was never about slavery" ?
WTF IS THAT?
STOP THE INSANITY
I can tell kids to just GOOGLE what those States wrote as their reasons for starting our Civil War? Suprise!
But will they? Extra credit homework without any extra credit? Answers that will be marked WRONG on the test?
We're all f*cked.