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History lesson; Editorial; Beaver County Times; September 11, 2011.
Below is a critique of the subject editorial.
“Ten years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a reporter for The Springfield Union in Massachusetts found that only three of 23 people knew the significance of the day.
“The Honolulu Star-Bulletin in Hawaii didn’t have much better luck. It found that six of 15 people didn’t know Dec. 7 was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
“Keep this in mind whenever someone starts talking about kids today not knowing American history. It’s the history of ignorance repeating itself.”
[RWC] Keep this editorial in mind the next time the BCT complains about “teaching to the test.”
As for “the history of ignorance repeating itself,” perhaps “ignorance” explains why the BCT fails to tell us FDR policies mimicked by President Obama didn’t work. Consider the following quote: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … And an enormous debt to boot.” - Henry Morgenthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary during the Great Depression, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in May 1939.
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