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Oklahoma has rewritten a bill to ban the the AP US History course in their schools. They blame CollegeBoard for creating such a "negative" framework for the course. Ben Carson states that this course will make students want to "sign up for ISIS." This issue becomes problematic when many critics wants to take this to the courtroom. They argue that the course focuses on the wars and epidemics, rather than the apple pie life of Americans.

This debate is foolish as so many critics are behind this movement of banning this course. The conservatives are so eager to sweep the "negativity" under the rug, they lose focus of the the whole concept of the course. The whole concept is for students to learn about the ups and downs of the development of this nation. The whole point is to unveil the grim presence of racial, social, and economic issues that were, and are still, prevalent today. Banning this course not only furthers the fellow student from knowing the big picture, it decreases the nationalism that the critics want to preserve so badly. Oh, the irony. Students should be informed of our nation's past, and limiting the knowledge not only distance ourselves, but labels the ugly truths of this country as irrelevant. We cannot change the past; hiding it does not make it disappear.