I can only shake my head
Dec. 1st, 2008 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI'm on a completely different question/project (but still scoring the same population of students). I'm really concerned now about the good number of Michigan middle schoolers who have no idea that slavery and the Jim Crow era are different. One child actually believes that MLK and Lincoln were contemporaries. Another thought Harriet Tubman lived in the 1920s.
I want to write a letter, but I don't know to whom. In public school there were no history electives--I took only what the state required. Still, I came out with a chronologically accurate timeline of race relations in America. Somehow, somewhen, someone stopped teaching these students. If no one at higher levels of administration even know about these gaping holes in students' knowledge, how can anyone address the problem?
I want to write a letter, but I don't know to whom. In public school there were no history electives--I took only what the state required. Still, I came out with a chronologically accurate timeline of race relations in America. Somehow, somewhen, someone stopped teaching these students. If no one at higher levels of administration even know about these gaping holes in students' knowledge, how can anyone address the problem?
