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Posted by SLRT on Thu May 28 10:32:01 2020, in response to Re: BMT Canarsie Line history question., posted by New Flyer #857 on Thu May 28 08:46:18 2020. It was policy. or so we were told. We did talk some about FDR and individual memories and events in some classes, but it was considered more like "current events": i.e., how some things happening now were affected by the near past.Think of it this way: decisions are made about how to present history, because at least political history is controversial, so it is harder to teach in the "this is what happened, period" modality. Fifty years ago from today would be 1970. You could probably teach through Nixon and Ford, but there is a lot you could say about every more recent president (Jimmy, Reagan, Bush, Bubba, Bush, Obama, Orange Man) that could be challenged,no matter which way you lean. If you're taking a political science course, that's different, but you rarely see those in the public school system. |
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