Well this pretty much explains everything.

Students Stumble Again on the Basics of History

Fewer than a quarter of American 12th-graders knew China was North Korea’s ally during the Korean War, and only 35% of fourth-graders knew the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, according to national history-test scores released Tuesday.

The results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed that U.S. schoolchildren have made little progress since 2006 in their understanding of key historical themes, including the basic principles of democracy and America’s role in the world.

Only 20% of U.S. fourth-graders and 17% of eighth-graders who took the 2010 history exam were “proficient” or “advanced,” unchanged since the test was last administered in 2006. Proficient means students have a solid understanding of the material.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana

That’s the biggest reason we are in the position we are in as a nation. History has been forgotten OR RE-WRITTEN to fit an agenda.

Here’s a part of that story that should make you happy:

One bright spot in the data was the performance of African-American and Hispanic students in fourth and eighth grades. The average score of Hispanic fourth-graders jumped to 198 last year, versus 175 in 1994, which helped shrink the gap with their white counterparts. In eighth grade, black students improved to 250 points in 2010 from 238 in 1994. At the fourth-grade level, the gap between Hispanic and white students was 39 points in 1994 and 26 points in 2010. In eighth grade, the black-white gap narrowed to 23 points in 2010 from 28 in 1994.

I wonder why that is? I’m thinking it has to do with the “Rewriting” of history to make it more enjoyable to minorities. Whitey being the evil of the world tends to unify the so-called minorities.

History as it was taught in the days of people over 40 is not the same as it’s being taught now. History was taught in a truthful way, it was not watered down, it was not peppered with the “Agenda” of today’s world and it was in no way politically correct.

The Teachers Union isn’t totally responsible for this. A large part of this problem lays at the feet of special interest groups. Hispanics, Blacks, Gays, Indians, Martians.. hell EVERYONE with a victim mentality that gets an audience with the school board is responsible for our broken system.

IF a history book has offensive text within it. Some parent/group/legislator will ban it. History has been sanitized to the point of being mundane UNLESS it highlights “Minority” events. History is something we need to learn from rather than hide from. BUT THAT’S NO LONGER AMERICA.

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