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This is a sort of continuation from my last tyred out post.....
Thinking about history and fashion in education....I'm fine with diversity and all it entails but it seems we, in Britain
have lost confidence in our own culture and history.
Im about to do a road trip which coincidentally runs me past 2000 years of our island...from the Roman invasion,through the( allegedly) dark ages right up to the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers.
No one seems to notice or care.
Our children are crammed full of stuff which might be ideologically sound but which seems to marginalise mainstream narratives.
My own children will know more about our ' shameful' empire than about the ways we came to be who we are. They don't know about what our hill forts are,why they're there, how these were used and reused....they wont understand the relationship between land and the development of European democracy....and so, so many other things.
Worse, they don't care.....that's what really hurts...to not know where you came from is to not know who you are.
Oh well, I know and care...but have the sad suspicion that I'm of the last generation who will do so.


Our children in public schools aren't taught much of our true cultural/historical heritage either and unfortunately a lot of what is taught has been re written to satisfy the PC groupthink crowd..