Blog Entry #3 "Mulit-America"

I’m not quite sure were education in the United States lost site of the fundamentals of education. I say that with a cautious tone because I realize that many aspects of education have remained constant. However, after reading, “The Challenge of 'Multiculturalism' In How Americans View the Past and the Future” I was shocked to learn that text books and curriculum are being altered to reflect different points of view in history classes. As far as I knew history was a look at all sides of a past action, an evaluation of how the event occurred and what the results of those events were. How do you teach history from one viewpoint?
One of the concerns I have was brought up in the first sentence of the article “Why Multiculturalism Is Wrong”, which addresses the misconceptions some people have on culture and that of race. Here in the United States almost every individual is multicultural and many of them are of mixed races. Skin tone is no longer an indicator of culture or race and over time in the multicultural United States generations have created their own culture, a culture of Americans. How does education plan on teaching multiculturalism from a view point oriented from one cultures vantage? Regardless of the country, people in general have made horrible choices. Societies have defiled mankind in the name of religion, war, race, hate, culture, land, and politics and still to this day mankind makes these same mistakes. History is a learning tool to teach of these actions, regardless of the nature, and inform the youth of today so that these mistakes are never made again.
The greatest challenge our schools face today is not one of multiculturalism or of race, but rather one of acceptance. We can not change our history it is part of what has made this country great we must accept the mistakes those before us have made and revitalize society through education.