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Mon Mar-21-11 09:38 PM
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8. I'm really glad that I had a great American History teacher in high school.

We learned about a lot of the stuff that apparently is completely ignored in a lot of schools.

Our teacher went into great detail about things like how Columbus enslaved and killed countless Natives, the NY Draft Riots during the Civil War, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a lot of the history of organized labor and unions, history of women's rights.

Hell, he used to photocopy passages from Howard Zinn's "A People's History Of The United States" for handouts.

The kicker? He was a Bush-supporting Republican. But he never brought it into the classroom.

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