Oh, Papa Ray, we have had some long talks about that subject. The teacher himself has compromised his credibility with some of his other inane rantings. Not a few parents have had long “talks” with him.
The school year is almost over, and most of this is going to wash of my son like water off a duck’s back. It is just disturbing that this sort of thing happens all the time.

Zinn’s book COULD be used as a valuable tool to allow the young to understand how malleable history can be. History can have many “interpretations”, yet who is to say what the truth really is? And when I have heard Matt Damon champion Zinn, I know truly what a useless tool he really is.

Herodotus was once called “the father of history”, yet a few latter day classical historians (of his era) called him “the father of lies”. Both statements may be broadly true.

This summer I may try to get him to read Paul Johnson’s “Modern Times”.