Out of Date NEW Textbooks?!?!?

[smarter than you]

My son just got a copy of his history textbook for next year, American History Revisited. The idea is him and I are supposed to go through it together and get familiar with it before the year starts. While flipping through the pages, I noticed it looked as if it were 20 years old despite it being brand new. It has 6 pages about George Washington. Those pages give a brief biography and say a lot about the man, but they leave a lot of his other information out that could be very helpful in understanding him as a person, such as his facebook profile and twitter account. I would love to see what he tweeted during the harsh days of the revolutionary war. They go as far as to include his official wikipedia page, so why not include these other references? I feel as if my son is being cheated out of an education by having to read archaic textbooks while children he will be competing with for college spots in a few years will have access to more modern textbooks that make it easy to look up historical figure's social pages. Anyone else agree?


And before you start criticizing bringing our famous fathers social networking pages and facebook in general, remember its for the purposes of education

[cjvw622]

Since there were no telephones or computers or even electricity during the late 1700's you're not going to get very far in your search for GW's social network.

[neniaf]

Maybe George Washington used the most stringent privacy settings and the publishers are afraid of being sued by him for invading his privacy?!!! Actually, though, if you taught history, wouldn't it be a great assignment to have students develop a page (or maybe a blog) for historical figures like this?