people either had shit schools or didnt pay attention in history class
Both 😉
When my school was hit by a natural disaster, I had the opportunity to switch from a premier Catholic school to a premier public school for two semesters.
…let me tell you, the biggest disservice that you received was a systematic lowering of academic standards. The difference was night and day. There is no way that that curriculum was preparing students for college.
Since there is a limited window in which brain plasticity is at its peak, catching up at university isn’t an option. Public school students are at a permanent disadvantage; it’s an equal opportunity problem.
With sufficiently motivated people, it can happen. I tutored people in a small community college for a semester. It was the most rewarding job I’ve ever had.
Honestly it was mostly single moms that never understood algebra in high school but needed to pass their nursing degree requirements. When it clicked, and the light shone in their eyes, it felt like a personal success. I wish it paid better because I’d love to do it forever
Your public school taught you about the civil rights movement? Damn, that’s a good school.
Out of curiosity, how much did y’all learn about the war of 1812 (US only)? I vaguely remember it was like a single page in a textbook for me
The older you get, the more bullshit will be revealed
The public school system was sort of ultimately designed to make good little obedient factory line workers. Not a surprise at all, they want you to think it’s a thing of the past and get complacent. How do you think we got where we are today?
The only thing I am glad my US Public School education gave me were a few history teachers who directly talked about politics, activism, and repeatedly getting arrested for protesting the School of the Americas.
Born around 2000 here: My high-school history class got to 1945 and that was the end.
Born around 1985 here and…same.
I think the biggest disservice regarding the Civil Rights era is talking up MLK every year…and not once mentioning Malcom X or the Black Panthers.
MLK would have accomplished nothing if the alternative wasn’t them.
It paints the picture that hippies and marches are all that’s needed. It’s not. The oppressors need to feel unsafe.
Yeah, it’s interesting that the curriculum starts by portraying the American revolution as a just and righteous war, with ragtag bands of freedom fighters going up against a brutal and overwhelmingly powerful oppressor… And then as soon as the revolution is concluded, the messaging takes a hard turn to “but also violence is never okay and peaceful protest is the only acceptable way to instigate change!”
In the chapters about the civil rights era, Malcom X and the Black Panthers were barely mentioned in a footnote. And only really as a “oh also not all people were peaceful, and that violence only hurt the protestors’ message” warning.
And the sad part is that the propaganda works. Every time some politically-charged violence happens, you inevitably have people in the comments chanting about how violence is never the answer, and peaceful protest is the only acceptable way to change things.
Oh they do. Thats why “antifa” is a “terror org” now lmao
Well it is.
They are called boomers now and blamed for everything despite of the things they did.While the movement is piece of the past, I would argue that the fight for equal rights continues to this day.
What you said thought doesn’t add up to my knowledge though — Civil Rights was fought for roughly from 1950-1960s. The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964 when Boomers were turning 18 and the last year of their generation. This would mean that the people in the streets protesting and/or voting weren’t boomers but the silent generation and their parents.
That is indeed your limited knowledge.
If you want to cherrypick one thing (1964).
There was still a lot to do and done after that.
Vietnam after that for one.
Black Panters didn’t even exist.Also, ‘the fight for equal rights continues to this day’
It should but it doesn’t really.
A lot of complaining and embarrassingly weak and lame stuff.
Looks like the regime won and the population has been pacified.If you’re going to troll from overseas you aught to work on your English a bit. I’d suggest reading up on your American history too but it’s pretty clear that’s not super important to whatever message it is you think you’re sending.
But the boomers to this day continue to vote for corrupt governments and fall for such blatant government lies and deception
25 -29 only had a 10% difference for Copmala.
Everyone older was equal or pro Orange.
But if it makes you feel better about your ageism towards a generation that actually fought for something while current generations are an embarrassment, go ahead.
I don’t live in the US shithole so IDC.
In fact, if they’re dumb enough to fall for divide and conquer tricks and not direct their anger at the guilty ones you deserve what you get and I’m glad that cancer country is going to shit…
You were also likely taught that the genocide of indigenous Americans was a past event, too.
I have met people who did not realize that indigenous Americans still exist.
It certainly was shocking to find an active ongoing eugenics program was still active in the 1970’s.
The reality of people existing in active oppression by the US government is absolutely not the impression that I got.
I’m pretty sure Indigenous women are still being sterilized without their knowledge or consent during births or other medical procedures in parts of the US and Canada.
Have any examples?
Just Google “forced sterilization of indigenous women” https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d
Clearly still happening recently in Canada, how about the US?
Y𝖾s, including in the Unit𝖾d Stat𝖾s. Quick s𝖾arch𝖾s pull up many r𝖾sults, both on indig𝖾nous p𝖾opl𝖾s and on many oth𝖾rs including migrants in ICE d𝖾t𝖾ntion.
Example 1 - Indigenous Peoples Here’s a link that claims “From 1907 until as recently as 2018, tens of thousands of Native women underwent tubal ligation”: [Link](https://nativenewsonline.net/health/stolen-generations-new-mexico-takes-historic-step-to-address-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women/)
Example 2 - Migrants Here’s a summary link of prior/current cases. “On September 14, 2020, nurse Dawn Wooten filed a whistleblower complaint . . . Wooten said that nearly every [detained migrant] woman who went to see a doctor was told she had to undergo a hysterectomy.”: [Link](https://www.niwrc.org/restoration-magazine/november-2020/past-and-current-united-states-policies-forced-sterilization)
More summaries with sources cited. Some were court & judge approved coercion. “As recently as May 2017, Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield signed an order that offered misdemeanor offenders 30-day sentence reductions if they underwent either a vasectomy or a birth control implant [16].” “Between 2005 and 2013, 144 women were coerced into sterilization in California [19].” [Link](https://www.texasulj.org/post/three-generations-of-imbeciles-past-and-present-coercive-sterilization-in-the-u-s)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit closest I find find in 5 minutes
Another quick search https://www.nccih.ca/docs/child and youth/FS-Forced-sterilization-EN-Web.pdf
For me, it was that protesting was only ever discussed as peaceful, civil activity, as was a way of communicating demands outside of the voting cycle.
Unionization and workers rights were never discussed. I didn’t learn about unions as a concept until nearly graduation when my first job had so much required training about how dangerous they were, and of course I assumed they were full of it and did my own investigation.
It always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers’ rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don’t teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose.
And who was basically always on the wrong side?
The US military.
Checks and balances in the federal government is my biggest disappointment. They aren’t working.
Lobbyists write checks to each sell-out traitor-to-democracy, in a balanced way.
In the same vein as the first comment, you were also likely taught that slavery ended in the 19th century with the end of the Civil War.
I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.
She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)
Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.
And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping… etc…
Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.
(Philly btw… my school was rated so bad btw… like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Just a brief mention and that’s all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable… :(
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Same. Except for the Japanese Internment Camps…which was covered in English Lit for some reason.
As far as my high school history curriculum went, Asia , South America, and most of Africa simply did not exist. Africa only got mentioned for Egypt and slave-trade. South America because of the conquistadors and stopping there.
Mine connected history with current events and heck I took a class called current affairs.
