So. This has been a long week. Lots of homework, but again, I'm really enjoying school. Work has also been a feat this week. I haven't been getting much sleep either, so I'm a little run down. So I've just been trying to take care of myself, because I heard briefly somewhere the other day that there's a new virus or something going around. It's probably just something stupid like the bird flu or whatever. I'm not worried, I just don't need to get sick right now.
On a side note, I've been taking a class on American Radicalism, and I'm now learning the true history of our country. I always knew we weren't getting the whole story in school, I remember in second grade arguing with my teacher that Columbus didn't actually discover America, that the Native Americans were already here that that's not discovering anything, but I never realized how much they were actually leaving out, or just all together altering. I think they've really done an injustice to Americans. I think if they want us to be true proud Americans, they need to start sharing the true history of this "wonderful" country of ours. I've just really been looking at everything, and I'm actually more disappointed in my country than I was before. Though I guess that is why they don't share any of this information with us. Or 205 is just that shitty of a school district. Which is a theory I wont dismiss, either.
Either way, I know some of the advanced readers in my high school read this, so maybe more people have read this than I know of, but I think that everyone needs to pick up a copy of A People's History of the United States. Basically, I'm obsessed with this book. And you'd better believe that when my children are starting school, I will be following along with their curriculum, and teaching them the whole story, so they can go back to school the next day and ask their teachers about it. Maybe others can learn this at an earlier age. I just know my children wont be left in the dark. This is far to important. They ask us to blindly submit. I just can't handle such a big part of my life to be so vague and shadowed.
Ok. So that is my rant for today. I just feel very passionately about this at the moment.
Thank you. And have a good day.
Wow, 205...there was a bunch of bullshit going on in that district, though I still feel like I got a pretty quality education out of the ACAD teachers. I learned a lot about the real history of America when I took an American Lit class my senior year of college...I really do wish I'd known more about what really happened back in the day when I was younger. I felt so dumb at 21 hearing about the first Thanksgiving and realizing my concept of it was like thinking Santa Claus still existed...
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