Date Posted:11:14:42 03/06/06 Mon Author: 23 Subject: Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth In reply to:
GarlicSoul
's message, "thanks for the new Nazi Youth" on 11:13:17 03/03/06 Fri
Really?
Then I wonder what context WWII is put in? The Civil Rights movement? The Revolutionary War? The Civil War? The Suffrage Movement? Worker's Rights?
Seems to me that the biggest moments history are a series of events that revolve around humans trying to get their rights or fighting against those who are taking them from them.
So, do you propose that students are just taught the dates and important names about these events, but are given no context as to why they happened?
You can give context that has no opinion in it, yes. Is it dry? Yes. But so should a foundation be. Elementary - High school is just a foundation.
They are taught already the basic reasoning for things. Civil war for instance. They are taught this was North vs. South and that slavery was an issue. They are not told though that the fight to free slaves was really just a voting/power issue that had very little to actually do with sympathy for the slaves. Because that part is subjective. You can take that and mold it all sorts of ways. You trust the teacher to make that judgement for you?
Human rights are different from things like Civil Rights. Civil rights they're taught. Human rights are a subject of it's own and has too many contradictions to be taught in Social Studies! How can you teach children that we fought something for basic HUMAN RIGHTS - and killed the opposing while doing it? We fought for the human rights of the Jews in WWII (among other reasons). Oh, but we killed lots of innocent Germans to do it. Human rights are subjective.
