Polotics In The Schoolroom

I liked Cheney's view about what is happening to our public teaching system. He pointed out the fact that we are taught the more negative side of things instead of stressing the good points in our countries past. I think that is good to look at the bad things we have done in order to learn from our past mistakes. We can’t tell about just the good things and cover up the mistakes that we have made otherwise we would never learn from the bad and our children wouldn’t know the mistakes and battles our country has been faced with. I think it is also good to stress the good points of our country too though and what I got from the reading Cheney doesn’t think that this is happening enough anymore. When I was going through middle school I don’t remember talking about how bad Columbus was or talking about some of our founding fathers being in the KKK but I do remember things once I got into junior high. We learned about the atom bombs and all the devastation they caused and we had to read a book about different people that were affected by it. I also remember learning a lot about slavery and we had to watch the movie roots. So I think that some bad points do get picked out but they don’t want to totally cover up our past. I agree with the point Cheney made how the textbooks need to emphasize the role that women have had on our history. That was a good point he made because I think that sometimes women’s achievements are over looked. Then when we are over looked we are made inferior to men because their achievements have been highlighted in our textbooks.