Good evening, ye who monitor the "feedback" -
From news reports I've learned you intend to move US history prior to the end of Reconstruction to a grade 5 curriculum.
I read of the Phase 2 outline for social studies in grade 5 (ref
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/phase2/) and have the following changes for your consideration:
5.C&G.1.1 Summarize the organizational structure and enumerated powers as stated in the body of the US Constitution.
5.C&G.1.2 Analyze reasons for separation from Britain as stated in the Declaration of Independence. Relate to current situation and events.
5.C&G.1.3 Discuss the "natural rights" of man and the influence of natural rights on the concept of "negative rights" in law.
5.C&G.2 Analyze life in a Constitutional Republic through the rights and responsibilities of its citizens.
5.C&G.2.1 Explain the distinction between rights of man, qua man, and privileges granted under law. Explain the distinction between privileges granted under the Constitution for Federal Territories and the rights of Citizens acknowledged in the Constitution for the United States of America.
5.C&G.2.2 Explain how the Founders intended to preserve the sovereignty and liberty of the individual from encroachment by the National government. Explain how States were to Interpose themselves between the National government and Citizens to preserve the liberty of Citizens.
Do you understand the significance of the differences between your original text and the alterations I propose?
The proper instruction of the philosophy of the early United States is absent from your curriculum, and is conceptually beyond the capabilities of a 5th grade student.
Your proposal will effectively eradicate the teaching of Founders vision and philosophy. The high school curriculum for American History post 1877 will only serve to indoctrinate teen age minds with the roots and expansion of American Progressivism.
I realize this is precisely your goal. I'm writing to state on the public record that your goal is evil.
