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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (52856)	7/12/2002 5:10:17 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

Really!!! That is amazing. American history is in the 5th grade curriculum here, and has been for quite a while. California history is in the 4th grade. Before that history is sidelined in favor of math and English- which are what is tested on the standardized tests. I have actually been interviewing quite a few students since I began to wonder about this- and none of the students in second grade or below have been able to tell me about the revolutionary war. Some of them know George Washington was our president, a few know he was our first president, but they don't know he was a general. I'm not sure a first grader has anywhere near the vocabulary (even if you speak the words) to understand the Declaration of Independence- except as gibberish. I think it may have been so long since you were in school you are out of touch with what is taught in what grade. We often remember things a bit differently than they actually happened. If you were taught the D of E in first grade I doubt you understood it, or the references to God in it, and imo it was a waste of teaching time. Although if you insist you did study it and understood it in first grade I am prepared to believe that you think your memories are correct. But that is as far as my credulity extends.