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How do you understand “reframing history”? Your comments indicate that you don’t like it, and that makes me think you believe the framing we’ve lived with so fa
by aklemm 6y ago
How do you understand “reframing history”? Your comments indicate that you don’t like it, and that makes me think you believe the framing we’ve lived with so far is authoritative.
1619 feels like a fair and useful project to me. That’s because I am suspicious of the dominate narrative and that’s because we have lots of evidence that the stories of marginalized people are underrepresented in history, which leads to injustice. That’s a perfectly intellectually honest thread to pull on.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt's not a question of intellectual honesty. The problem is, in the OP author's words, "taking unfair advantage of the student's immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher's own opinions before the student has had an opportunity fairly to examine other opinions upon the matters in question". I agree with much of what the 1619 project pulls, but I don't want those threads or any of my other political beliefs incorporated into school curriculums as though they're simple facts.