North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0…..58,00.html

He may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools, U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.

State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.

One would assume this is part of the "Progressive" plan; a plan that includes rewritting history or at the very least not teaching about it.  If our children do not understand how and why our government was formed, how will they know when our leaders take us down the wrong path?  I find this VERY scary.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," attributed to George Santayana, a Spanish-born American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries