Politics in te Schoolroom, by Lynne V. Ceyne

This article sucked... haha just kidding!!

Honestly though, I really did not care for her opinion. Not only did I think she was wrong on many of her points, but the subject was of no interest to me and she somewhat jumped from one subject to another.

In the opening pages of Cheney's insight on education over the past couple decades, she focuses mainly on the fact that today's students are taught about history with a negative slant rather than one that would make someone proud to be a citizen of the U.S. Even if that is true according to some texts, and to some research projects, it is mainly up to the teacher how they choose to teach the curriculum, what tone they themselves add to the text. And it can be argued that in college courses, sometimes the teacher is not teaching the text, it is the student student who is reading it themselves and being quized on it, so it is mainly up to the slant of the book, but the teacher is still going to give lectures and add their opinion. My teachers in High school were very un biased in their teaching , and even when they did teach according to their own opinion they let it be known that it was there "own opinion", so if my high school was the only school that taught that way then let me be wrong, because that is an overstatement that all students are getting a negative view of our history based on text books.

I also think that elementary school kids should be able to hear the truth in a very subtle way, not to be lied to and find out later in life that their education a child was "sugar-coated", then they have to learn the different perspective along with the false one.

Cheney then goes into discussing how certain important issues are eighter left out of textbooks, or overlooked, which is something i agree with her about. I have a horrible memory and don't even know some common knowledge becasue we go over so many things that sometimes I don't think are even that important, but that plays into society also, not only textbooks and teaching methods. Our society today is more concerned with possesions and looks than our future as a contry or our past.

Cheyne then once again switches gears and focuses on female roles in education, well more of how our society depicts them and how they are doing compared to males in school.

to be continued.....