South Dakota Makes Teaching Early American History Optional for High School Students

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Want to know the quickest way to ensure the nation’s youth grow up to be a collection of unthinking, ignorant drone-slave adults? Just ask South Dakota’s Board of Education. They’ve got it down to a science.

From Argus Leader:

History teachers across South Dakota will be working with a new set of classroom guidelines after a Monday decision to approve social studies standards.

College professors balked at the new benchmarks because there isn’t a requirement for teaching early American history at the high school level.

In spite of protests, the state Board of Education agreed to overhaul the standards after an almost yearlong public hearing process. There is no requirement for teaching the first 100 years of the nation’s history, including the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, but the rewritten standards do give teachers a choice.

Incoming freshmen arrive unprepared for history because they aren’t learning early American history at the high school level, according to the letter, which was signed by instructors from DSU, University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University, Northern State University, Augustana College, Presentation College, the University of Sioux Falls and Black Hills State University.

And the problem isn’t just a matter of college freshmen being ready to discuss Thomas Paine at a university level. A sound understanding of history and civics can help them when they’re in the voting booth, watching the news and making life decisions, Jones said.

“It’s disabling their citizenship,” Jones said.

And that’s probably the point.

Meanwhile, what the heck is going on in the Dakotas. Recall from last week:

North Dakota Becomes First State to Legalize Drones Weaponized with Tasers, Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets & Sound Canons

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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3 thoughts on “South Dakota Makes Teaching Early American History Optional for High School Students”

  1. While we’re eliminating a thorough grounding in the principles that gave meaning to the term “American liberties”, the Europeans are busy turning Germany into a norther suburb of Syria–http://www.thelocal.de/20150626/refugee-school-calls-for-uniform-modesty

    You’re a freakin’ refugee. You’re in a beautiful country that has allowed you to stay with very few restrictions. You’re given food and safe accommodation. But it’s the locals who have to dress differently to avoid “misunderstandings.”

    No, what should happen is the first Syrian who touches one of them should have his head caved in with a shovel. You know, tough love.

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  2. Our Rulers, the Global Oligarchs, that provide us with their Command Economy, have no use for history. It gets in the way of governing their Subjects. The Global Oligarchs are supported by the National Plutocrats and their well-paid Handmaidens (my terms), knowing and unknowing, like both parties, the Lame Stream Media, most candidates for President, and even most Presidents since our last liberal President!

    That was the life-long secret supporter of Native Americans, with a secret Indian Life coach, who was a life-long secret California Liberal Republican!
    NIxon? Yes! He appeared Conservative but look at what he accomplished!
    He knew he had enemies in the Eastern Establishment. And they GOT HIM! Read “The Real Scandal of Watergate” (Barnes and Noble and Amazon) on the criminal high-level conspiracy that drove hi from office.

    An ignored achievement for Alaska Natives has resulted in their formulating and achieving the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ANCSA. Now they own, control, free of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and manage, some billion-dollar global business corporations. (Search the subsidiary ASRC Aerospace.) I had ideas, the leaders made the decisions and convinced Congress. I was denied compensation, even recognition.

    The corporations own, with mineral rights, only about 10% more land than in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. A pittance! For then some 80,000 Alaska Natives, not even as much land as in the United Kingdom!

    Our Rulers will never allow this again. They have been successfully extending their control over state governments, including South Dakota and Alaska. It may not yet be complete, but the only Presidential candidates in their way appear to me to be Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders. There are likely a few others. Senator Ted Cruz? Carly Fiorina? The Oligarchs and Plutocrats will expend billions, even trillions, to defeat all of those who are not their Handmaidens.

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  3. Further down into the stupid hole we go.
    I am retired and took a part time (something to do) job this summer for a young man who is a graduate of Georgia Tech. After working a few days I noticed that my young boss COULD NOT WRITE and his spelling was atrocious. He printed everything. I asked him why he did not “sign” his name and he got a bit red faced and said he was not taught this. A college graduate who can not write??
    Good gravy, I knew things were bad in our “ejukashun” system but this is unreal! How the hell did he graduate high school? If this is indicative of our system we are in deep trouble.

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