The College Board: A Radical Revisionist View Of History

I personally find it ironical that the critics argue that the College Board ignores great achievements and shared values between different political groups in the U.S history. One of the share values between the critics and the College Board is to equip high school students with the ability to learn how to ask historical questions and prompt reflections on historical events. While the critics point out how “politically wrong” it is to focus on “a radical revisionist view” in the curriculum, they seem to ignore the “great achievements” made by the College Board to inform high school students that current amazingness does not come from smooth or selfishless compromises between different political groups, but from bloody and violent movements. A sense of patriotism, one thing the critics rendered as
History always comes to an equilibrium with time, so does everything else. Nobody is purely saint or evil, and no history is purely great or dark. While it is impossible to learn all the history to reach that optimum equilibrium, it is the College Board’s responsibility to make sure that the curriculum is balanced between progresses and setbacks. History is history because time has past. What we currently have will become history as time flows. Therefore history is not just past events, but rather past events seen and evaluated by current eyes with current values. American history taught in other countries will be different from that taught domestically, since people with different identities share different values. Students with different races will feel differently when learning the same materials. Hence, I believe that learning history is not only about “what should be taught” or “what should be emphasized;” it is about how to draw connections between historical events to currents events to foster existing values while adding what we do not know to construct