LETTER: Let's stop teaching students lies
Editor, Register-Mail: Recently I read an excellent book from 1937 "They Broke The Prairie," by Earnest Elmo Calkins, a classic read about the early days of Galesburg. This excerpt struck me as so timely concerning the conservative backlash to Critical Race Theory:
"School books were written and edited with this thought in mind, that it was unthinkable that you should suspect its country was ever wrong, or any country that opposed it ever right, or that the men who founded it were anything but grand and noble — in short demigods. Nothing was further from the minds of patriotic beadles and churchwardens in the good old days that children were sent to school to learn the truth about anything, least of all history. Even today there are sharp outcomes against liberalizing the school books to approximate at least something like the truth."
Why are we still willing to feed our school children such lies? — Judith Squires, Sherman Oaks, California
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