[Rally]

"My children's high school history classes (late 80s) bore little resemblance to mine"


I believe it is Howard Zinn whom we have to thank for the transformation of school books that you note.

It's not just the textbooks, but the teachers.  I am becoming notorious for long, personal anecdotes so will skip these.  But trust me.  Who was the aggressor in WWII?  And our "war crime" in dropping the bomb?  My granddaughters were amazed when I told them their great-grandfather, scheduled to be in the first wave of the invasion of Japan, might very well not have survived to help create me, leading to them before Ng someone else entirely.  I just left the room when the youngest ( in elementary school, who had been quietly listening) said, "But what if we had two mommies like my friend xxxx?"

[Rally]

"My children's high school history classes (late 80s) bore little resemblance to mine"


I believe it is Howard Zinn whom we have to thank for the transformation of school books that you note.

It's not just the textbooks, but the teachers.  I am becoming notorious for long, personal anecdotes so will skip these.  But trust me.  Who was the aggressor in WWII?  And our "war crime" in dropping the bomb?  My granddaughters were amazed when I told them their great-grandfather, scheduled to be in the first wave of the invasion of Japan, might very well not have survived to help create me, leading to them before Ng someone else entirely.  I just left the room when the youngest ( in elementary school, who had been quietly listening) said, "But what if we had two mommies like my friend xxxx?"