The History Standards: A Correction, An Apology, and Some Comments
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25 responses to “The History Standards: A Correction, An Apology, and Some Comments”
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Love the art.
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My grandmother used to have a parquet floor like that. In fact, that could be her wallpaper too.
Hey! Wait a minute!
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You didn’t know grandma owned a camera?
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I give Dick credit. And 2 things. WHY is this stuff so hard to find in the first place ? and given the very different formats…. it’s really not going to be easy to compare… not exactly and attempt by VDOE/Youngkin to actually contrast and compare the changes.
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I think it’s because of the tendency of web developers to place a higher priority on “pretty” as opposed to “functional”.
25 years ago you’d have to explain to them that most people are going to be loading the website through a dialup connection, not a T1 line like they have at the office.
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It’s VDOE IMO. “Stuff” is damn hard to find on that website on a variety of topics.
It won’t have it’s own navigation link… it’ll be in some paragraph in the Superintendents memo and stuff like that.
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DH-S’s humility is a rare expression on these pages.
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He avoids inflammatory opinions, or at least, is nice about it.
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Well, not for him. He readily comes back with corrections. Opposite of others IMO.
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Will schools teach about the VP’s and Senator Hirono’s bigoted attempts to impose an unconstitutional religious test on a nominee for a federal district court judge position? And that one doesn’t need penumbras and emanations to find.
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There would have been an easier way… she could have simply asked, “If you were JFK and being appointed to Supreme Court instead of running for the Presidency, would you also offer assurances that your faith will not cloud your adherence to the law?”
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Probably still unconstitutional.
And JFK had to do that only because of rampant bigotry in America. He learned from Al Smith’s experience.
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Rampant bigotry in America? Then, right, not now.
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Still exists, see the actions of Harris and Hirono. And the Post, it endorsed Harris.
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That’s the only two you know of?
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TMT – there is not a politician alive who has not messed up on issues. Are these two total racists their whole lives and careers? What is their full measure? Just what you are pointing out – over and over and over?
I’ll buy the idea that what the did on that issue was probably wrong.
But geeze guy. If you want to go to each politician and find an issue where they messed up, you’re gonna have most of them.
What the total condemnation?
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Gracious post Dick. I too have learned over the years that when I am mistaken that eating crow and moving on is by far the most productive path. Ego argues against that, but it is wrong.
I’ve been thinking about your column from a few days ago. In particular, the issue around, “Centralized government planning in the form of socialism or communist political systems is incompatible with democracy and individual freedoms.”
I find that to be the most questionable of the new rules / policies.
I agree with the sentiment but it’s too simplistic.
No country is completely free market and almost no country is completely socialist (I don’t know about North Korea, for example). America has examples of socialism – the US Postal Service owned by the government and the ABC Stores in Virginia are examples.
There are far more examples of quiet socialism in America. Heavy regulation of certain industries is a form of government control of the means of production even if not the outright ownership of those means.
The point that should be taught in school is the degree to which government ownership of anything reduces personal freedom (I am not sure that democracy fits in at all).
Virginia’s ownership of the ABC Stores means I lose the personal freedom to buy a fifth of vodka on Sunday. I also can only buy the brands that Virginia’s ABC Stores decide to sell. No doubt that the socialistic insistence of the Commonwealth of Virginia in monopolizing all retail liquor sales reduces personal freedoms.
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Social Security, Medicare, Public education, public roads, to name a few…..
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ABC stores are now open on Sunday, but not until noon, after you get out of church.
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regulations protect individual rights also.
I suppose regulations can be thought of as socialism but the real world is that the countries with the highest life expectancy, highest productivity, highest education attainment, etc, etc are all developed countries with “social” programs and policies from public roads to public schools to public health, etc.
Have never understood why this is considered a “problem” and taking people’s “rights”. I don’t want the unfettered private sector to be unfettered whether it’s food or drugs, or cars or airplanes or GPS or cell phones, you name it.
The staff at VDOE did what they were told, create a document with broad standards with NO curriculum framework. Virginia teachers should be angry. Hold me accountable after giving me a broad glimpse of what needs to be taught, then, test my kids and let me know if I understood you. If it took this much time to get a 50 page document that is way too broad, it is incredibly difficult to imagine why Youngkin thinks he leads any education reform.
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Thank you Kathleen for telling the truth about what is going on with this. Not going to happen from others apparently.
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