House Republicans Move to Eliminate Grants for Teaching American History

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/House_Republicans_Move_to_Eliminate_Grants_for_Teaching_American_History_110515


Republicans in the U.S House have introduced legislation to eliminate funding for grants from the U.S. Department of Education to teach American History, labeling such expenditures a waste of money.

The Teaching American History grant program, which began in 2001, gave a total of $119 million in FY 2010 to 124 local educational agencies with the goal of teaching traditional U.S. history as a separate subject matter.

Representative John Kline (R-Minnesota), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, said he supports the move because “right now, far too many taxpayer dollars are dedicated to ineffective, redundant K-12 programs.”

The National Coalition for History, which opposes the bill, accused Republicans of relying on an outdated Office of Management and Budget assessment of federal history-teaching grants to justify their position.

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[mweathermay]

1. Why Not

We don't teach anything in the public schools anyway

Home school your kids and you won't have to worry about religious nut-cases taking over the curriculum, or underqualified teachers

[kestrel91316]

5. Seriously?????

"....Home school your kids and you won't have to worry about religious nut-cases taking over the curriculum, or underqualified teachers...."

Far too many homeschooling parents ARE religious nutcases and/or underqualified/UNqualified.

Please tell me you simply forgot the sarcasm thingie......

[mweathermay]

10. silly generalization

We home school our kids, and we are not "religious nutcases"

Of course I used to be a teacher, so that helps

however, tha majority of homeschoolers in my area are secular.

Speaking as a teacher, I am not sure what a "qualified teacher" even is. The education courses I took in college were a joke, and many of my co-workers in the school system didn't know how to teach anything.

Go watch "Waiting for Superman" to have a good laugh.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Of course, why would we want our citizens to know our history?

[RC]

3. Makes sense. If you had a history of corruption, as do the Republicans,

you'd want to forget it also.

[Bandit]

4. This was a Bush* era bill and probably should be done away with

When Republicans "teach" history people become very stupid..

[EC]

6. Why were we paying schools to teach a subject

that should have been required in the first place? I can see dropping this grant. Was this supposed to be for a civics course and they labeled it American History?

[and-justice-for-all]

7. That is NOT creating jobs you puke fuck bastards!! nt

[and-justice-for-all]

8. John Kline is a fucking moron...

"he supports the move because “right now, far too many taxpayer dollars are dedicated to ineffective, redundant K-12 programs.” Just how in the hell is teaching American History bloody redundant and ineffective??! Oh, it because history, as fact, has a way of not adhering to the 'history that puke tea baggers believe it to be..!

[southernyankeebelle]

9. They want to get rid of it because they want to rewrite history to suit the rightwingers. Thank god

many of them hate to read. With them a wasted mind doesn't need to learn.

[Historic NY]

11. A lot of fucking elected idiots now that know zip, imagine the future...

when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. And the ride to Lexington to Concord Kentucky was by Daniel Boone yelling the British are coming.