Leftism's War on History.

You didn't think that fourth graders wouldn't get away without learning to despise Catholicism, did you?

//The fourth-grade tradition of building a California mission out of Popsicle sticks and sugar cubes is being pushed aside by the state as history lessons change to reflect all cultures and more accurately depict the past.

A new framework for the curriculum at K-12 public schools means less research into the floor plans of the mission at say San Juan Capistrano, and more time looking at what life was like for both the missionaries and the native people of California.

"What are students learning by building model missions?" asks Nancy McTygue, executive director of California History-Social Science Project and one of the lead writers of the new framework. "I don't think the mission project has taught students about a very difficult time in our nation's history."

McTygue adds: "Building a mission doesn't really teach anything of substance about the period and it's offensive to many. Attention should focus on the daily experience of missions rather than the building structures themselves."//