After our Socratic circle experience in Mr. D's class I've motivated my self to get off facebook and write in this blog. During "Socratic interaction" i took many notes on all of your ideals and view points from this i will draw my own viewpoint, this perspective will be expressed in this little bit of data called a Blog. My viewpoint will be textually based going through the text from one interesting point to another hopefully smoothly enough to cypher into what we call the English language.
From the first statement we all knew what this article was exactly about the tug of war between church to state, left to right; secular to nonsecular, and multicultural to uni culture. This article summarized in one statement "debate over how much faith belongs in American History classrooms." My own viewpoint be it full of worth or not, from what i have heard from you all in class is something of less right or left; and maybe because of this it is so radical it should be thrown to a wind as a statement of heresy. My viewpoint being, the neither of both sides we should neither take out emphasis of the bible in history nor overly emphasis to the point of propaganda. I believe school should be a center of the most unbiased education you may get; textual education, base education; something that should be taught as a fact then gone home to the parents to where they may sway the child in the direction they feel is correct within their own culture. These radical ideas of mine may not seem all that radical but to those on the far left or far right this seems to be blasphemy, why argue when you can "meet in the middle" in joined hands to find something that is agreeable to both sides. But who is deciding this "education routine" the politicians pushing their own regime, the reverends emphasizing their own religious view, or the parents of these children? Who are we really changing when we make these decisions the power of either side or the future of man kind, the children who are learning this education? The fact that some want to de-emphasis multiculturalism is something i see as completely ridiculous and outright a "censorship" for advantage of their own past, any de-emphasis of the bible in the founding of American government is also censorship. The fact that this all boils down to the history books, is something of ridiculous, when the proportions of the actual argument is between those i have stated early in this blog. The middle ground is something that should be taken for our future, but what middle ground should we take? Those between secular and non secular, or a variety of different types? Even if we are able to take the middle ground of scores of different groups there will be millions more of individual ideas that will never be taken into account. But how will we be able to incorporate ideals within our history books without turning them in over-sized thesaurus's of pure opinion bull. Or maybe this is what we need from the texts that i have read for Academic Decathlon a much hated activity in most circles, the text was completely different opinions of different writers during the period of the subject (civil war), the both sides and generality of those in the other areas, from slaves to those gash darn hill folk. But within all of this opinion there was no "fact page" or "answer sheet" that told us within the program what exactly was right or wrong it left us the choice , the ability to choose for ourselves. Now giving children this freedom may create many different solutions these solutions may not be socially correct or testable but as of now, whether the history books are biased to one group or another eventually, by hope, the children are able to make their own decisions their own biases separate from or near to their parents or politician of choice. But while these children are formulating, thinking of their opinions they should be given at most possible a sterile history book void of opinion as much as possible for it is not the left or rights's authority to persuade children that are not of their own loins.
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