If You Don’t Know Where You’ve Been, You Can’t Figure Out Where You’re Heading 0
Last year, it was discovered that a history text book used in Virginia schools was riddled with egregious errors.
Now it has resurfaced, with some of the potholes filled, but the roadbed still seems defective:
Sheriff, a teacher of the Civil War, reviewed the second edition of the “Our Virginia” chapter dealing with that subject. While pleased to see many errors had been corrected, Sheriff wrote in an email that some misleading characterizations remain.
“For example,” she said, “the book might lead children to believe that slavery did not exist in the Union itself; that the North and South were entirely different from one another; or that white Northerners immediately and universally greeted the Union’s black soldiers as heroes.”
One reviewer cited in the story made a list of factual and textual errors that was over four pages long.
Now comes the state board of propaganda education wanting to let this turkey back in the schools.
It would seem to me that the publisher of this text book is more concerned with sales than with students.
