Inclusive or indoctrination?

Spokane Public Schools will be offering a new American history course this year. The fact they go out of their way to state that it is “inclusive, not indoctrination” should be a clue.

The first thing you need to know is this course can be substituted for the standard American history course most of us were taught. The second thing is that it only covers the period from 1877, which is the period following the Civil War to the present. The third thing is that by inclusive the District means that while it covers subjects like the Navajo code talkers, which is certainly appropriate, it also covers the LGBTQ “experience” — whatever that means — feminists and other issues of diversity.

What this means is the course is dropping what is certainly the most important period of history in our nation; the founding of our country, the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, and the formulation of arguably the most important document in the history of our country and possibly the world, The Constitution, for what the district describes as “supplemental materials that have received little attention.”

Are you the parent of a young person about to enter high school? If you are, would you prefer that they learn how our country was formed, why it has become the envy of the world, and who made it so, or would you prefer they learn why Bruce became Kaitlin? The district calls this nonsense “inclusive.” I call it something else.

Hal Dixon

Spokane