North Carolina is gonna come and burn all your books!

North Carolina public schools are considering breaking history into 3 units, one on history up till the civil war in 8th grade, one on the founding fathers' as part of western civilization in 10th, and one on history after reconstruction in 11th.

Of course Fox reports it as "N.C High Schools to Remove Pre-1877 U.S. History?" Cause, you see, 8th grade isn't high school, and the 10th grade course isn't a dedicated course. See here for the debunking.

Freepers know a good paranoid narrative when they see it:

panaxanax may be a bit dramatic:

“THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TEACH THEM ABOUT OUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION, OR THE CIVIL WAR.”

That is why all FReepers should maintain and expand our library of old history books.

Fahrenheit 451 was not fiction after all.

Monorprise knows history:

So basically they want to kick out the only Constitutional part of U.S. History (Pre-civil war), so they can spend more time on indoctrinating kids in the “global issues” of the environment and stuff?

Yeah, the Constitutional part of U.S. History ended the moment we ended slavery!

But the mystery of the 1877 start date was the real comedy:

Verginius Rufus hits the answer, and then keeps driving:

I assume 1877 was chosen as marking the final end of Reconstruction (it actually ended sooner in some states). But it could be because of the death of Crazy Horse, or because that was the year that the two moons of Mars were discovered (Phobos and Deimos).

C19fan isn't so lucky:

The starting of history in 1877 is right out of 1984. Of course they want to start in 1877 since the is on the cusp of the Progressive Era and the start of Big Government repudiating the Founding Fathers.

bushpilot1

Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention Dec 26 1877

And again:

Washington Post publishes 1st edition 6 Dec 1877...

PATTERNS! PROOF! GLENN BECK WOULD BE SO PROUD!