According to the government’s new Common Core education standards, the Gettysburg Address must be taught without mentioning the Civil War and explaining why President Lincoln was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Common Core Instructs Students to Learn About Gettysburg Address Without Mentioning the Civil War
According to the government’s new Common Core education standards, the Gettysburg Address must be taught without mentioning the Civil War and explaining why President Lincoln was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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The point is, to let students read and uncover the speech first as it is as opposed to over scaffolding which has been teaching our children that the teacher will do all the work for the students.
ReplyDeleteThe address itself states that" we are engaged in a great civil war",
Here is the totality of the speech:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
WHO are these people who are attempting to erase and rewrite our history, heritage, and identity? Will we now stop teaching about British oppression and our revolution? Forget Pearl Harbor? In one generation, we will have a group of children who have NO IDEA about how we became a country, and worse, WHY we became a country. Doesn't anyone wonder what the point to all this revisionist history is?? Our "representatives" are so busy lining their pockets they can't and won't do anything about this....a stupid society is the one most easily lead and manipulated. Maybe that's the whole point.
ReplyDeleteBig deal! I was in the National Guard, was activated by President Johnson in 1968, did my job and was discharged. Same as other Presidential activations such as Afganistan, right? Not so. I went to the local VA to inquire about what benefits I was entitled to and the babe there stared at me as if I was from another planet. Illegals come first. Veterans get leftovers.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a history issue, it's an education issue.
They have already changed who the 9/11 terrorists are..changed their nationality and blamed the attack on the US.
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