Jackson Jambalaya

Mississippi, staying last one bureaucratic decision at a time.
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from, and if it offends you, even better, because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase, modify, or destroy.

Of course they did.

Those who forget (or don't know) the past are doomed to repeat it.

Dumbing down our kids - one policy decision at a time.

The dumber they are, the more likely they will be to vote MAGA. This is a good plan from the Republicans and should dumb down the youth a little more. Big win!

Further dumbing down of society.

Yup

As tempting as it is to say this is a bad thing I'd gather few posters on this site had to take a standardized test to graduate high school focused on the content of US History.

I see this as neither good or bad. Students will still have to pass the course to graduate high school but without a standardized test, just how there is no standardized test for American Government, World History, Mississippi Studies, Geometry, English 4, or a bevy of courses one must finish to get a diploma.

Many teachers and parents complain there are too many standardized tests now and they are correct, but the decision to take one away causes a public outcry when the requirement hasn't been in place for that many years.

And in a year or two MDE will brag about graduation rates rising.

We should be more like Florida. Simply eliminate those aspects of U.S. History that makes us look bad and teach the rest with great pride. It works.

Students attending the government schools could care less about American and Mississippi history.

If I had to guess, being a nationally based test, it's full of false, dumbed down, liberal/woke agenda jibberish, that if you're taught real American history, and then take the dumbed down test, you're not going to do well because you weren't fed the propaganda in a lot of schools in conservative areas, where the smart kids are.

Shadows of the memory hole in the book "1984".

So we are creating DEI students? This will affect the kids and our future society. Who cares how taxing it is on educators? IT'S THEIR DAMN JOB!! We are so soft as a society and this is why. Just give them a participation diploma. I guess Mississippi enjoys being on the bottom of every list for anything good. Pathetic.

Back in the day there were no state tests or "assessments." Students simply had to take and pass the required courses at legitimate high schools. It seems to me that graduates then were much better educated than the average now. Just my $0.02.

Democrats love this because history is racist and they always try to rewrite it anyways to fit their narrative.

Disappointing. The DOE should be better than this.

The book 1984 is over 200 pages long, there’s no way you’ve read it

Interesting that so many here are pro history when just yesterday they were complaining about Sid's post about Ole miss and its history and the national guard deployment. "Beating a dead horse" "We don't need to be reminded" Now we care about history? lol okay

So tell me, why do you think people that vote Republican are dumb? That is about 70-80 million Americans in this country.

I'm willing to bet Brandon Mayor Butch Lee is happy about this.

Only Democrats who know little actual history would think that. Why do you think the poorest and least educated precincts in the country vote for Democrats consistently?

The next few Years they'll remove Math, Science etc, etc & after while there'll be No requirements and Mississippi's Test Scores soar. We have a History, we Learn from History. Today many don't know what the Constitution of the United States of America is nor many other Documents we learned in the '60's, '70's or '80's. Our Children today don't Know what they Don't know because of what yall call Progress. This is only Dumbing down Society, preparing to make changes along the way. Wrong path for our Children to move Forward in Life. Let's share the Information with them, let's Learn from prior Mistakes & move Forward with some Bad Mistakes from History. Hoping for a Better Mississippi & a Better United States of America. Better together-