How far we've fallen when New Jersey proposes to relieve schools of the burden of teaching the meanings of Veteran's Day and Memorial Day, as well as other holidays. I'm not a proponent of unvarnished, rose-colored history, but we don't need to insist that our students should hate their country, either.
Other holidays about which schools no longer would be required to teach include Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Arbor Day and Commodore Barry Day, which commemorates Revolutionary War hero John Barry.
New Jersey schools must observe the holidays under a 1967 law designed to promote "the development of a higher spirit of patriotism." Florida, Nebraska and Washington are among states with similar laws.
What possible valuable, worthy reason could someone have for not wanting children to learn about these holidays? I anxiously await the anti-Columbus crowd (yawn) and the Hate America First crowd, among others.
"It's simply time and flexibility," so says Mike Yaple as he is obviously yapping on about something else that is more important at NJ School Boards Ass meetings. Why bother teaching anything at all at school?
ReplyDeleteWe are very seriously wrong here ...
I would say thanks, Darren, for highlighting these idiocies but sooner or later the whole country is just going to check out with the attitude of why do we continually have to suffer these indignities that are thrust upon us every day.
Sign me, haven't given up yet.
I think it's interesting how the politics of PC history have pushed the general facts of our national history off the page and replaced it with the histories of small groups. It plays into the Salad Bowl vs. The Melting Pot theory and lies behind much of the push for people to be able to enter our country at will without documentation. Once again, without common beliefs, culture and language, we will end up as the Romans did with a sputtering economy and a corrupt government. Are we there yet?
ReplyDelete