Very few students across a high school actually enjoy sitting for an hour learning about history, which almost always includes more than one glorified “savior”. Besides the hundreds of kids, I especially do not enjoy sitting and listening to vague stories about a white man who once made history. As I took a deeper dive into each of the articles given, my opinion slowly concurred; I agree with the majority of these authors about the way history is explained. In the sense that I believe history should be recorded accurately and efficiently, not just for the reputation of our historical figures.
Beginning
Beginning with one of the most notable lies told about a historical figure, I introduce Woodrow Wilson. As stated in the introduction of the article Lies'Lies My Teacher Told MeMe', when the professor: Emeritus James W. Loewen, asked his students their immediate first thoughts when it comes to Wilson, they “responded with enthusiasm.” I can understand why they would be naive to the interesting flaws Wilson was not mentioned to have. One of them being racially motivated. Wilson was said to have sent “secret monetary aid to the ‘White’ side of the Russian civil war.” This is incredible to learn considering the first thing that pops up on Google when wondering what Wilson was known for is: “leading the United States into World War I” and how he “changed the nation’s economics policies,”, which was cited from wikipediaWikipedia, a commonly known distrusted source. This further expands my point, proving we are only taught what we are wanted to believe. How will we know what questions to ask if we aren’t even introduced to the idea of questioning in the first place?

Walk into a high school history classroom and count how many students are asleep. I can guarantee at least a few. By nature, it seems teenagers aren’t engaged in something they aren’t immediately understanding. Not that the teachers make it any easier to understand, that is. In the article, We’re'We’re Teaching History Wrong, ByWrong' by Vicky Schippers, it's explained greatly, that a student who couldn’t even graduate due to a failing grade in history for years, was very engaged and interested in conversation about history when he was taught the right way. This showsprovides me proof that most public schools do not teach the way they should be, textbooks are lacking the correct information, and teachers are not engaging with their students enough for them to ask questions and research more about our history.
Explaining
Explaining whether history now is accurate and engaging is a tough subject to debate, nevertheless. Nevertheless, I continue to explain my point; Thethe presentation of history on students needs to be changed in order for there to be progress in student attention and understanding towards our old and new historic information that is crucial to our public school system. Better textbooks, or research, could make someone ten times more engaged than the average publicly schooled student. With this being said, I’m keeping my opinion firm. I want to learn whatswhat's beyond the surface with accuracy rather than what keeps our historical figuresfigures' reputations sided with.