Opinion | Trump’s War on The New York Times Hits the Classroom

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Opinion: By attacking journalists, appointing a commission to lock down history in a way that pleases him and giving grant money for a “pro-America” curriculum, Trump intends to assert a new ownership interest in the past

“ to reopen quarantined America—this new attempt to dictate how history is taught will mostly likely fade into the background. The president has no direct power over the school boards who set education policy, let alone the textbooks from which history is taught, or the teachers who do it. All he can do is jawbone—but as we’ve learned, if all he can do is jawbone, he’s more than happy to do so.

In attempting to place his personal, political mark on what children learn in schools, Trump is no originator. In a fine survey, we learn that the political quarrel over the past—what the history textbooks should say, which accounts are elevated and which suppressed in the classroom, who composes curricula—has been contested in every generation since the Civil War. The historicalthe political.

 

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Trumps gone full blown Putin

Giving the nation every day and every way the reasons to either admit we are accomplices or we are against tyranny. Nobody can search their souls to understand this?

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past Why teach real history that shows what kind of country America has been, when you can have Donald's whitewashed 'America good always' history?

WE NEED TO REAL HISTORY TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, FINALLY Flight of fancy: Trump claims 1775 revolutionary army 'took over airports' Historical blunder in July 4th speech compounded by mixing up war of 1812 with war of independence

this may literally be America’s LAST election. KingTrump VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt Vote

Assange, cough, cough

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