Highland Deac
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One of the reasons the number of kids being homeschooled or sent to private "Christian" schools or Charter Schools is the reluctance of conservative Christian parents to send their kids to "liberal, secular" public or private schools where, God forbid, they might be taught that American history isn't all sweetness and light. Around ten years ago I skimmed through a US History high school textbook published by Bob Jones University Press - it's one of the most popular and commonly-used history textbooks in Christian schools and homeschooling. The text - especially regarding slavery, Native Americans steadily being pushed West and losing their lands (and whole tribes being destroyed), the condition of factory workers during the Gilded Age, especially child labor, the causes of the Civil War, and all the rest - was presented in a way that few mainstream historians would consider legitimate, or at the very least the whole story. It was certainly a positive spin, I'll give them that. I'm sure that anyone taught from such a textbook would probably see no need for reparations of any kind, or even why there should be an inquiry into such a thing.