Betsy's Page: The British are destroying history education

re: "...How can you even imagine teaching British history to British students and strip Churchill from the curriculum? Is the goal of these educators to destroy any pride at all that children might develop in their country's history? I can see how teaching about Olaudah Equiano and William Wilberforce's fight against slavery can fit in with the "teach only the warts" approach to history teaching, but you would think that such an plan would want to include Gandhi also. And how do you teach World War II and not have Hitler in the curriculum. Is the whole curriculum going to be taught in the passive voice: wars were started; battles were fought; and wars were ended. Let's just not mention any individuals who might have been key in those events..."...