Beware of educators who say we have to teach about America’s flaws

...Competent history teachers should teach the bad of America — along with good! — in a fair, commonsense manner. Unfortunately, I’ve seen folks like Cote express these sentiments before, and it all sounds good — on the surface...And does anybody really buy that contemporary teachers are “deemphasizing” topics like slavery, the plight of Native Americans and the like? The pushback (for lack of a better term) from Trump and others on the right arguably comes from an overemphasis on such topics … to the exclusion of other material.