Blog 2

      The way we teach children about history is different than the way it actually happened. Even though kids aren't supposedly old enough to know what exactly happened, we tell them a simpler version of the story. If we take this much time to make up stories about our history for the sole purpose of them being able to learn it, shouldn't we just use that time to tell them the truth? It's harder to be re-taught something once you've learned it another way. Kids grow up thinking the Native Americans and Pilgrims gathered around a campfire and shared one, big, happy feast on the first night. Oh, how contraire to what really happened! If they knew that the Native Americans and Pilgrims did not get along, then we could elaborate on that topic when they're older. At least then they'd have the right idea of how things were. Kids don't necessarily have to know everything about what happened and how it did, but they could be a little closer to the truth than what they are being taught now.