Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus


	Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus

cpltaiji

7-12-2007 11:08 PM

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7-13-2007 6:23 AM

Newfman

Boo. Hiss.

7-13-2007 6:47 AM

cniq_cniq

Considering the list of folk dropped, one has to wonder if the 20th century was also deemed unnecessary to teach in history classes.

7-13-2007 8:25 AM

syncopath

one is 2b known by the names marked in his list &
even more by the names that are dropped ! .......

7-13-2007 10:36 AM

The REAL Napster

The easiest way to alter the future is to remove traces of the past.

7-14-2007 5:50 AM

bohica29

Oh, yeah... this follows the non-teaching of the Holocaust because it aggravates Muslim Brits whose kids come home and contradict the Ayatollahs / Imams who say it never happened.

Why don't we just kick all references to World War 2 completely out of the window?!? No cause, no effect, no military history at all...

7-14-2007 5:58 AM

JohnWaterman

I can assure you that most English kids will learn about, Hitler, Churchill, WWII etc well before the age of eleven. So there are 4 years when other periods of history are covered - so what.

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