ur_inner_child:
WWI? We learnt about the steadfast brave Anzac soldiers. Ignore the fact a large chunk of hospital admissions were for STDs.
WWII? Did you know various groups had different attitudes towards it? And women played such a large role on the home front!
I agree that equality for women is important. But we shouldn't paint men = bad, women = good! We shouldn't suggest that minority group history is so important for the world!
I think there's been enough talk on this however, and I'll cool down
vahl3: teaching homosexuality and polygamy in class is just wrong. Period.
Preaching racial tolerance through history is a noble cause, but it falls apart when you see that:
a.) some racial groups ARE hard to tolerate, regardless of what political correctness tells you to say.
b.) teaching about changing rights of migrants and how those poor people used to suffer much, and were all good and all, and now they're all nice in a happy family! isn't going to be conducive to this aim.
edit: Vahl3: teaching polygamy is not secular.
Modern History is different, it is infact enjoyable because it is not about the empowerment of minority groups...
School is not allowing you to develop your own view when you have a bunch of socialist teachers saying HOWARD IS EVIL and THE WAR STINKS and FEMINISTS ARE GOODY GOODIES.