Will North Carolina Students Learn History Begins After the Civil War?
Imagine studying history starting with Rutherford B. Hayes. In case you don’t remember, his presidency started in 1877. Well, if you were an 11th grader in North Carolina that may be the extent of your education about this country. No founding fathers, no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution, no Revolutionary War, no Civil War and nothing in between. This is not a joke. It seems to be what the state’s top school officials are proposing. “We are certainly not trying to go away from American history,” Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. “What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day.” She concluded. “The students are in school for 13 years. They certainly are taught U.S. and North Carolina history in middle school.”
