Dear Principal
In many school the history in the textbooks that are provided for students is being edited. Censoring the truth about out world is wrong because everyone should have full understanding of the past occurances. We are going through life learning superficial information instead of going deep into the reality that once was. We as students should be allowed to learn both sides of the conflict. A great example of hiding the truth from students would be the history about the Rape of Nanjing. I learned about it today in my history class but not by reading it from our textbooks but by listening to my teacher explaining it because information about it was not provided for us. What occured was disturbing and shocking for me. I couldnt believe that i had never heard about this before, specially since an incredibly high amount of people were killed from it. People were tortured in disturbing ways. People were forced to rape their own family members, some people were opened alive, babies were even killed. Why should the reality of our history be kept a secret form us? Yes it might be shocking and horrible but we can learn to accept it. Learning about mass genocide teaches us students a lesson and how to stop it from happening again.
