Students in Jefferson County, Colorado, have continued walking out in protest of the school board's proposal to replace the AP history curriculum with conservative teachings that don't "encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law." It seems that at least one of the conservative school board members pushing the plan is as ignorant of history as she wants students to be:
"I'm not saying let's not teach history accurately," [school board member Julie] Williams told 9News in a phone interview. "What I'm saying is let's not encourage our children to disobey the law." When we asked for examples of historical events she fears are misrepresented, Williams couldn't point to one.
"I'm not familiar enough with everything that is in AP history to make that judgment," she said.
But in a recent press release, Williams said several historical figures were left out of the curriculum.
"Let me give you some examples of who is omitted," she wrote. "Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin with not even a mention of Martin Luther King, Jr."
hasn't this been the way all a long? when growing up there was no mention of anything Black White people did everything invented everything built everything and by self proclamation were everything to us not White. then created generations of Black ignorance to who we were and our contributions to "THEIR AMERICA" that they made according to "THEIR HISTORY BOOKS". BUT JUST FYI,
http://www.blackinventions101.com/inventionslist.html
looks like mostly they didn't build that!
