Margaret Sanger's dream is sadly alive in New York City

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(07-28-2015, 01:36 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: To me, that's sad. They often say that if we forget our history we are doomed to repeat it. But for some reason we want to try to forget that we had forced sterilizations, lobotomies, and sometimes euthanizations of the "undesirables" right here in this country.

We showed my kids a documentary on the mentally ill homeless population in LA, so I touched on all of this with them since I learned about it when I went to school to teach special ed. 

But there's very little room for it to be worked into a curriculum in high school. We have to cover Reconstruction to 2008 in US history, and the Depression, WWII, the Civil Rights movement, and the Cold War are far more important in that period.