Home School Option

33 Questions

Not every parent can, or wants to home school their children.  Let me suggest that teaching them just one course, based on this book, could very well instill in them a proper skepticism about anything they're taught in the classroom. “ Today is the official release date for my new book, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, from Random House/Crown Forum. These are questions that receive incomplete, misleading, or absolutely false answers in the standard treatment of American history. Most are simply never raised in the first place, since they might give rise to forbidden thoughts that run counter to established opinion. A few of the questions: Were the American Indians really environmentalists? Is the U.S. government too stingy with foreign aid – or not stingy enough? Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a "living, breathing" document that changes with the times? What really happened in the Whiskey Rebellion, and why will neither your textbook nor George Washington tell you? What made American wages rise? (Hint: it wasn't unions or the government.) Did the Iroquois Indians influence the United States Constitution? Did school desegregation narrow the black-white achievement gap? Did the Founding Fathers support immigration? What was "the biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton years"? The three constitutional clauses that have caused the most mischief – what are they, and what were they really supposed to mean? Did capitalism cause the Great Depression? If not, what did? Does the Constitution really contain an "elastic clause"? Did the Founding Fathers believe in jury nullification – that juries could refuse to enforce unjust laws? Was George Washington Carver (who supposedly developed 300 products out of the peanut) really one of America’s greatest scientific geniuses, as Henry Ford claimed? ”