North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons, page 1

North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons

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As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.

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Really?! American history minus the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, the Civil War, etc. To focus on more modern history. Seriously? How does one teach US history without the actual founding of the nation?

This is downright stupid!!!!!! I can't even believe this is a consideration in the North Carolina public education system.

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reply to post by sdcigarpig

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Huge gaps, not to mention how is the Constitution with our fantastic bill of rights not relevant to modern times? Did I miss something? Perhaps, we do not need to worry about our rights necessarily being taken away, they will simply never inform the youth of them.

This another attack on education, I don't even live in NC but I feel something needs to be done about this, I don't want it spreading to my state.

[edit on 3-2-2010 by searching4truth]

reply to post by Ahabstar

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Usually I get a chuckle out of many of NWO theories, however one of the parts that stuck out to me was the 9th grade global studies class with its environmental section. Correct me if I'm wrong, but so recall covering the environment in biology, shouldn't it stay in the science curriculum where it belongs instead of dropping the most important years, documents, and people of our history? Owww, my head hurts, and I think I hear Alex Jones.

reply to post by bsbray11

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Hehehe, I've heard of it, but it was only because my second major was history, honestly I'd never heard of it prior to college.

reply to post by bsbray11

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The Battle of Blair Mountain. Yes I know it, but then again I majored in History a long time ago with the intent of becoming a high school history teacher.

seraching4truth: Just more dry wit sarcasm on my part than actual NWO speculation. environmental issues could be handled in an appropriate science course or even an economics class or "social studies" if the class focused on cultures and changes from historical to modern as they adapted to changing conditions such as the global impact of the slave trade as different cultures interacted through exploration and how entering the industrial age affected the global economies. And comparing that to changing from the industrial age to the information age and maybe throw in pollution and other environment impacts such as natural disasters.

Admittedly a good course may be too involved on the high school level unless it was an elective class with a cap on 15-20 students per class.

Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by Ahabstar

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Usually I get a chuckle out of many of NWO theories, however one of the parts that stuck out to me was the 9th grade global studies class with its environmental section. Correct me if I'm wrong, but so recall covering the environment in biology, shouldn't it stay in the science curriculum where it belongs instead of dropping the most important years, documents, and people of our history? Owww, my head hurts, and I think I hear Alex Jones.

Agreed, environment is science, not history (not yet anyhow...). I cannot even begin to pretend what they could possibly teach in a history class about environments and be relevant beyond the catalist to some disasters...which typically takes...what...2 lines...want to know more about it, research it in your science class.

not unlike saying History will now encompass the revolutionary war, civil war, home economics, and WW1......

Lets look at the curriculum before we flip out. Tenth grade civics covers the constitution, revolution, jurisdiction, taxation, the formation and structure of political parties and related topics. It covers the federal and state level. Reading the outline available on the state's website I actually think the civics course may cover most of the necessary stuff about the constitution and formation of the country.
Link

What really struck me though was this complete fallacy.

"The students are in school for 13 years," said Garland. "They certainly are taught U.S. and North Carolina history in middle school."

In sixth grade we had European History. I did a paper on Hungary so I remember that. In seventh grade I remeber having the Islamic faith explained in class. So I would say it wasn't U.S history. Then eighth grade was North Carolina history. We never made it all the way to the civil war as far as I remember.

So I call BS on her statement.

what they really teach

Middle School Social Studies (6-8)

Introduction
Skills
Sixth Grade
South America and Europe
Seventh Grade
Africa, Asia, and Australia
Eighth Grade
North Carolina: Creation and Development of the State

I am going to write a letter expressing my concerns about the change. The current outline covers very important and vital information.



[edit on 4-2-2010 by MikeNice81]

reply to post by MikeNice81

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I'm sure that bits of U.S. history are touched on pre High school in NC just as it is elsewhere. But here's the issue with that, the curriculum is age based. For instance, in fifth I studied the Constitution. At this level our objective was to memorize the preamble, that was it, we didn't read through it, but at a fifth grade level that was that and at the time probably as much as most could handle. Now, each year you may touch on the same subjects repeatedly however it is always gets further indepth as the years progress. To say that you had better get all you early American history by eighth grade is outrageous. I do not believe I did a very thorough study of it until high school.

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Just Another example of TPTB pushing forth their Agenda of the Dumbing Down of America . If that is the case , then Children should be taught the things they don't Learn in School at Home by their Parents wouldn't you think ? I mean , Home Schooling is where it all began bach when this Nation was first conceived , no ?

[edit on 4-2-2010 by Zanti Misfit]

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