Using the price is right excuse, the Virginia Department of Education has chosen a disproportionate number of textbooks from Five Ponds Press apparently based on cost alone - accuracy be damned. Glaring errors include:
The Confederacy was comprised of 12 states, not 11
The United States entered WWI in 1916, not 1917
New Orleans was a U.S. port in 1800's, not a Spanish Colonial one
Large numbers of African Americans fought for the south in the Civil War
And on and on. Seems the Virginia "Standards of Learning", whose claim that mainstream textbooks do not meet their "high" standards, needs to redefine learning altogether. Instead of trying to buy votes by placating factions that want to portray certain ethnic groups in a certain ways, they should focus on the truth - even if it hurts.
One Mr. Ronald Heinemann, a former history professor, reviewed "Our Virginia: Past and Present", one of many Five Ponds Press textbooks, and his recommendation - "This textbook should be withdrawn from the classroom immediately."
Said Mary Miley Theobald, a former Virginia Commonwealth University professor, after reviewing "Our America" (SharkyandSharky can only imagine what kind of crap is contained in that tome), "Any literate person could have opened that book and immediately found a mistake." Further stating, "Our America" is so inaccurate and biased that - "It is just too shocking for words."
SharkyandSharky believe it is time to change the state seal of Virginia.
©Sharky&Sharky
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