Comments on: Wanted: Education reporters who know about, well, education https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/18/wanted-education-reporters-who-know-about-well-education/ Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: jimmydeeoc https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/18/wanted-education-reporters-who-know-about-well-education/#comment-8409 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:44:09 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38094#comment-8409 If Santayana was right (and he was, of course) we are ultimately doomed.

We’ve all seen the surveys…….Barely half of graduating seniors know our first President (fittingly , I suppose, that this story appears on President’s Day), one-third think Russia or Germany were belligerents in the Civil War, etc.

I doubt if any major K-12 subject has suffered more from the ravages of political correctness in the past generation than History, and especially American History. The under-30 crowd almost universally believes: “If it happened before 1990….who cares?”

Except Che. Che is immortal……..LOL

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