In the excerpt of James Loewen's book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, talks about the idea that not everyone has an equal opportunity in our society. Loewen starts off by saying many teenagers do not have a concept of what the different class structures. Loewen says we have textbooks to blame for this. Textbooks have labor history in them, but nothing about how the class structure was formed. Loewen also discusses how the drop in the annual income has steadily decreased. However, Loewen describes that something this significant is not explained in most textbooks. He explains how social class is very important to our society and does not understand why it is not taught throughout our textbooks.
