Where did it go?

I was reading an older blog post from The More Child where the blogger asks, as an aside, whatever happened to actual history? Like Mesopotamia and explorers and all that?

I’ll tell you where it’s gone. It’s been dissolved in a combination of That’s Not Politically Correct To Talk About Anymore (the Spaniards were horrible to the people they met in the Americas! We’ll avoid the subject by not talking about it!) and Let’s Be Touchy Feely Instead (If we change the subject to “Social Studies” then we can talk about feelings instead of history).

Don’t even get me started on subject creep. As in, “Mommy, how come they’re talking about feelings in math?”