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“I’ve spoken with some history professors with very impressive credentials who told me this new framework doesn’t surprise them and is aligned with the content of college level history courses that downplay our noble history and accentuate the negative view,” she continued.
“As an example, I note our slavery history,” Mazanec wrote. “Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional. Does our APUSH Framework support or denigrate that position?”
Students and teachers have engaged in waves of civil disobedience to protest the white-washing of the AP curriculum. Teachers have walked out of classrooms and teachers have held mass sick-outs as gestures of defiance toward what many view as an outside attempt to inflict a conservative agenda on the state’s education system.
Conservative CO school board member AP history is wrong US ended slavery 8216 voluntarily 8217
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This is why I always add so many links, because at the USMB, you get swarmed with right wingers who insist you are a liar and can't prove anything.
Someone wrote that for Right Wingers, "AP" stands for "American Propaganda".
“As an example, I note our slavery history,” Mazanec wrote. “Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional. Does our APUSH Framework support or denigrate that position?”
Students and teachers have engaged in waves of civil disobedience to protest the white-washing of the AP curriculum. Teachers have walked out of classrooms and teachers have held mass sick-outs as gestures of defiance toward what many view as an outside attempt to inflict a conservative agenda on the state’s education system.
Conservative CO school board member AP history is wrong US ended slavery 8216 voluntarily 8217
http://coloradoindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/pam-m-facebook-1.jpg
(screen capture of her comments)
school board ending slavery voluntarily - Google Search
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This is why I always add so many links, because at the USMB, you get swarmed with right wingers who insist you are a liar and can't prove anything.
Someone wrote that for Right Wingers, "AP" stands for "American Propaganda".