SAN ANTONIO – Last fall, a small group of leftist college professors led the College Board’s rollout of a 98-page, radical revision of the Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH) curriculum framework for high school students.
...In an interview regarding my battle against the new ideologically biased APUSH, a Los Angeles Times reporter asked, “So what is driving you?”
I responded, “Too many college students are telling us that their semester in ‘U.S. History 101′ was really ‘I Hate America 101!’”
For example, when addressing World War II, the new 98-page curriculum framework completely left out both Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, where Germany’s National Socialist Nazi Party murdered six million Jews and three million others.
...Also indefensible is the fact that in 98 pages of learning objectives and curriculum expectations, the APUSH writing team censored every major military battle, commander, and Medal of Honor recipient, from the American Revolution of 1776 through modern times.
This can only be explained by a biased political agenda and a hatred of anything positive regarding our men and women in uniform.
...Finally, a word search of APUSH for Civil Rights History did not find Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, or Cesar Chavez.
However, the Black Panthers made the list.
History is a story that, if told well, contains both positive and negative persons and events that have a significant role in the development of a nation.
...It is my firm belief that the new APUSH framework promotes a highly politicized far left agenda that purposely erases the teaching of anything positive about our United States of America.
To advocate for teaching students only the negative elements and flaws of our nation is censorship.
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