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Originally Posted by roachboy
the way "history" is presented in public school is of a piece with the larger tendency to conflate existing political arrangements with nature--it's where the logic gets rehearsed.
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Right. What bothers me is that a teacher who wants to present "history" differently (gasp, more accurately!) in those public schools, runs a risk of being mown down by those bloody helicoptering parents who want the public system to participate in the false-consciousness-producing behavior that they have worked for 15-18 years to instill in their own home and teenagers' brains. It's almost as if they want the public school to be their own little private school... "don't mess with my (or my child's--same thing) worldview... or I'll get you fired. And that's my RIGHT." Sheesh. So much for "education." Regrettably, I don't think I will teach again in public schools if it means I have to weigh my own job security against my own teaching philosophy, which is to teach history AS IT HAPPENED, not as people (parents) would like to believe that it happened in order to prop up their own sense of manifest destiny.