Listen up, Principle

Dear Principle,
As high school students, our history classes seem to have jumped over some topics. There are major events in history on WWII we do not cover. I believe we have a right to learn of these topics. If an education is being given to us, it should be a full and complete one. Not one where a school board can pick and choose what happened it history. Whatever happened... happened. There is no denying or censoring it. This censorship is distorting our views and understanding of important events in our history.
For example, The Rape of Nanking, when the Japanese invaded China, and massacred hundreds of thousands of people brutally, this is something that almost none of the students have never heard about. Another example of genocide is Rwanda, the Hutu have been massacring the Tutsi people, and women were brutally and systematically raped. This has been occurring for years. We never hear about any of these events in highschool history classes. Yet, The Rape of Nanking is such a significant event in the play out of WWII. It is just as important as the holocaust; these atrocities that we all see in the holocaust have occurred elsewhere and sometimes have been even worse. We students should be learning about this and just because this information may seem “too harsh,” but it is still important, and as high school students we need to be exposed to this. It is important to remember that the loop holes in our education are not preparing us for college and the future, if our information has to be “censored.” Life is not censored. Full understanding of history, not only of the United States, but of the World is vital to the success of understanding how our society is what it is. We say history repeats itself, and it’s usually a mistake. If our generation is not informed of this history, how are we to stop it?