Report Faults Anti-American "Industry of Blame"

From the Progressive:

A new report, with big name support, condemns the way U.S. history is being taught in the United States and demands that students be instructed to have more "gratitude" for, and "a deep loyalty" to, our political institutions.

Entitled "Education for Democracy," the forty-four-page report is by the Albert Shanker Institute, named after the former head of the American Federation of Teachers and sponsored by that union.

"In too many instances, America's sins, slights, and shortcomings have become not just a piece of the story but its essence," the report states. "Legitimate self-criticism has too often turned into an industry of blame."

This really illustrates why teaching is such a filthy profession. I thought about composing my own response to this outrageous report issued by my own damned union, but at the end of the article historian Howard Zinn does a much better job of it than I could ever do:

"The advice offered in 'Education for Democracy' is more accurately described as 'Education for Obedience to Authority,' " says Zinn, a columnist for The Progressive. "It wants to inculcate a 'deep loyalty to the political institutions' of the United States when those political institutions do not deserve that loyalty, having been used again and again to maintain slavery and then racial segregation, to enrich the wealthy, to use armed force against working people here and abroad."

Right on!

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