The two following quotes present the extreme views. Bill wants teachers to
keep history heroic, and Tom wants us to present all the nitty gritty. It's
not possible to keep both extremes happy.

The SOLs provide the framework that allows educators to walk through the
extremes and present a fair side of history to students.

                                 Anne

At 09:01 PM 2/26/03 -0500, B Buser wrote:
>I guess you want to make sure that all the heroes are marred in some
>way.....There seems to be a trend in historical writings of late to pick out
>the flaws and make them the focal point of study...particularly on the early
>heroes.  Do 6 years need to know that or are you biassing them early in
>life...do they even understand. Would it not be better to develop that line
>information when they are older, say in Middle school when they have a better
>understand of the time period in which events took place. I think if we keep
>tearing down our heroes there will none...who should we tear down next Martin
>L. King?  without heroes cultures die

At 08:41 PM 2/26/03 -0500, Tom McMahon wrote:
>We Americans are so comfortable with the feel good American History it is
>part of why when you set out of our borders you feel the intensity of the
>hatred and apathy folks feel for us now.  Why don't we poitn out those
>delightful human flaws our great folks have, makes some all the more
>admirable and others all the more interesting.



>BBuser





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