New AP history course outline takes flak from the right

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/new-ap-history-course-outline-takes-flak-from-the-right/article_c0aded0e-a342-5b5c-8053-b4b13b079e6a.html


POSTED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2014 1:00 AM
By Joe Dejka / World-Herald staff writer

Some of Nebraska’s brightest high school students are getting a skewed vision of American history in a course meant to give them a leg up on college, a Nebraska official says.

John Sieler, a Republican member of the Nebraska Board of Education, said the newly revised framework of the Advanced Placement U.S. History course portrays the United States as “the bad guys.”

“I think that the United States are the good guys,” said Sieler, who expressed his concerns during a recent board meeting.

For example, he pointed to a description of Manifest Destiny as being built “on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of cultural superiority ...”

“It makes it into a racist attitude,” he said.

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[pansypoo53219]

1. OPINION has no place in history pal.