Dear Dr. Rhinehart,
I have recently discovered that some important historic events are not covered in our history textbooks, and quite frankly, I do not understand why. I believe we have a right to know everything, every detail, and every event there was. Some might be inappropriate or too violent and disturbing, but that doesnt mean people who are interested in learning it should be restricted. Today, for example, I learned about the Rape of Nanking. I was not familiar with it until today. I was actually quite frustrated about that. How could I have not learned about something important and major like that? I understand maybe when we were younger, schools thought it wasnt age appropriate, but we're in highschool now, like seriously come on. Yes the Rape of Nanking was atrocious, unbelievable, hideous and everything awful I could think of, but it's a part of history, a part that I think we should be taught about and not ignorant about. This whole censoring history school books is just something I completely, 100% , disagree about. What about Sudan? Genocide occurred there too. And once again, unfortunately, I did not learn about it at all. Similar actions that took place in the Rape of Nanking occurred in Sudan; civilians assaulted, killed, tortured, women raped and so much more awful stuff. Theres also so many more events of genocide, yet none of them are in our books. So this is my approach to you, hoping that you would reconsider the censoring of our history school books, because we really want to learn and be knowledgeable about everything in history, is that too much to ask for? What can we say.. we love history.
Sincerely, Noura Abuzant.
