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To: KLP who wrote (139409)	7/8/2004 3:25:19 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What you SAID was that the NEA was eliminating American history classes. Now you make it sound like you had no idea if they were doing this or not- since you have no facts at your disposal. You're going to check on hours spent? Well fine, do it- but what is really important is the nexus between any change in those hours, and the NEA. You made a statement as if it was fact- what I am now hearing from you now is that you have no idea whether it was fact or not. Although you can't actually bring yourself to tell me that, and I understand that. Why would I answer you? You can't give me a straight answer- and it's getting pretty clear you made up a statement you posted as if it were fact. I understand opinions, but when people make things up, to dress their opinions up as facts, that annoys me- because most people won't catch it, especially if the made up fact is outside their area of expertise.

To: KLP who wrote (139409)	7/8/2004 3:46:51 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Yes, I'd like to know what is happening to the American History classes in both Districts, and how many hours there were 20 years ago, and how many there are today. Keep your vigil. Is that the right question? There's no overall view there. It seems important to understand the overall distribution of all subjects over the 20 year period. In history, you might want to know American History, World History. I hope you would think that some World History is valuable. Then there's mathematics, English, Foreign languages, etc. The length of school day and school year haven't substantially changed in the last 20 years, how has the overall curriculum changed, if at all. If the total hours of history taught was unchanged ... what's the "right" mix of American and World history. 50-50; 80-20, 90-10? Maybe the mix was 80-20 and now it's 70-30 and that might be a better mix, even though the absolute hours of American History has declined. [if it has]