I believe historical documents should be taught in school, but only for middle school and high schoolers. Kids who are in lower grades do not comprehend or understand all of America's historical documents, or tragedies that happened afterwards. Not until about middle school do kids start to really get a sense of what things happened that caused us to get to where we are today. In higher grade levels they are able to form their own opinions and feelings on the matter, as well as be able to pay more attention to the information being given to them. In my opinion, learning about these things since about fourth grade, honestly get a little boring after a while. Now think of that from a little kids perspective, they are being thrown into learn about some devastating things like 9/11, and aren't able to understand the complete reason behind it yet, and then for the next so many years, learn the same thing over and over again. This paper is going to talk about the main points that should be taught in school and why. …show more content…
Not schools more than a requirement for a public education system. Almost a decade later in 1848-1890, there was more of a push to get public schools up and going. I’m not sure in what year they began to teach historical documents, or the first school really appeared,but it has been for a while, at least i’ve been learning about it ever since elementary. Yet even as a kid in elementary school I didn’t quite understand it. Being in highschool learning about the documents, I understand better the meaning of the documents, but also a little tired of learning about them. Like when your grandparents tell you a story, over, and over, and over again. Do you get tired of hearing them, yes but you’re not going to be rude and tell them to stop, you just start to zone out during it after a while. That how kids today are, except instead of telling the teacher they’re done learning about it they simply won’t do their