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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (202738)	6/20/2021 8:29:42 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361404

Teachers have a really serious obligation -- which many do NOT carry out -- an obligation to be sure sensitive topics like race and sex are handled in a way that is rational. We all have that obligation in these tender times. I suggest that you tone it down, stick to the facts, and be constructive about it.

To: i-node who wrote (202738)	6/20/2021 11:27:11 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By Terry Maloney Respond to of 361404

A big problem is that the history taught in schools is in a bowdlerized, whitewashed form. We have constructed a foundation myth in a lot of respects, everything from Christopher Columbus on forward. The problem is that myth is nothing like what actually happened. How much time is spent on the role of indentured servants? They represented the majority of the colonists who settled in the country. They were often abused, both physically and sexually. The introduction of slaves from Africa made their situation even more precarious. Indentured servants were leased, slaves were bought. If a landholder had both and needed a task done that would likely kill or maim someone, the servant was the one who did it. Those are the reasons why Appalachia was settled, most of them were indentured servants who just ran away. Does that get taught in schools? Slavery was just an extension of an already abusive system. Abuse of humans was what the country was founded on. You seem to be of the opinion we should just sweep all of that under the rug. The past is past and we should just ignore it. I think that is a bad idea. You want to make it a black-white issue. And it isn't. It is one of tacit acceptance, even glorification of abuse.