As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.
Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.
One of the themes of the Glenn Beck show has been the idea that one of the goals of the Progressive movement is to detach us from our nation's founding principles, and one of the ways to accomplish this is to simply stop teaching about the founding. I thought he was exaggerating, but with this proposal (which I have to believe has no chance of being implemented), maybe he was on to something.
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