(11-22-2013, 10:40 PM)Ashock Wrote: Interestingly enough, when I was in 4th grade, my required reading was the biographies of Lenin and Brezhnev.
Naturally, there is absolutely no connection between these requirements.
The problem here is that students are being made to read a biography of the President?
I agree it's not something I'd put on the curriculum, and my view of nationalism is roughly Tom Lehrer's. But presidential hagiography (including that of sitting presidents) has been standard fare more or less forever in US elementary education.
Is there something different about this, in particular?
-Jester
Afterthought: Her bio of Reagan is every bit as saccharine.