-=> On 02-27-98  09:49, Mike Angwin did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Jean Halverson concerning Re: useless test? <=-
 JH> But it's been that way for years. It was that way when I
 JH> went to school but I'll readily admit that things are
 JH> considerably worse now. 
 
 MA> I left school in 1966 to join the Marine Corps so things
 MA> probably changed shortly thereafter.
By 1970 at the latest, as the mid-60's protestors finally
made it thru the education colleges.
 MA> I really don't remember there being such a political agenda
 MA> saturated with political correctness from my school years.
There wasn't. Discussion of segregation was prominent - but
not as a matter of political correctness.
 MA> Patriotism was taught, of course, and schools in that era
 MA> did not take such a critical view of history as they do
 MA> today.
I'd not consider today's criticism to be motivated by
professional knowledge as much as it is by various minority
agendas and political correctness.
 MA> Yet there were also things taught that had regional
 MA> signifigance. For instance, when I went to school we never
 MA> heard of the "Civil War" as it is called today. Then it was
 MA> either called the "Brother's War" or the "War of Northern
 MA> Agression",
Well, that can be construed as a valid historical viewpoint
rather than political correctness.
 MA> and one thing was for sure, no comments of a derragatory or
 MA> even questioning nature, were made about the Alamo or the
 MA> defenders of the Alamo. We treated John Wanye's film as a
 MA> documentary. 
Other than some stereotyping common to the day, the film
was *fairly* accurate. It was only after the film was made
that archived Mexican documents revealed that there were
survivors who were subsequently brutally executed.
 MA> Today, it seems, local schools have become more "global" in
 MA> nature and, as a result, we have lost the shared values
 MA> that tied our communities together at a local level. Our
 MA> identities have been stripped from us and the things we
 MA> believe in for generations have been robbed.
[...snip...]
Those items weren't lost - they were deliberately
vandalized by the proponents of political correctness who
cannot endure the idea of any person or idea being superior
to another.
 MA> Such debauchry does nothing for our young and the legacy
 MA> left us by our forefathers. This political corectness
 MA> stuff, applied in our schools, is ripping out our hearts
 MA> and destroying who and what we are as a people. 
And such is it's purpose.
... Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make liberal.
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