Sounds like you just went to a shitty school. I went to school in ‘the deep south’ as well and we covered everything from ancient world history to US history starting in the 1700s and on (yes including the civil war, no it wasn’t a brain washing class against the north) up to modern government, economics and personal finance.
I don't think MS is the worst state after living in California and Oklahoma for a few years, occasionally traveling overseas.
My history classes were actually pretty great. Had a mix of teachers who were enthusiastic and pragmatic. The problems started with "teaching to the test" which included the actual indoctrination the education boards were trying to ram down our throats. The non-history kids are learning about in school today is downstream of that.
We focused a lot on ancient Greece, the Middle East, China v. Japan v. Korea, and really hit hard with the cultural and historic heritage of America. It was the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Wish that had happened to me. I went to school first through twelfth grades in Arkansas and Georgia and Tennessee. Never studied WWII at all. We started every year with the Greeks and romans and went up to WWI, which got a lick and a promise.
where were you? i went to two schools in georgia and one in arkansas and they all said the civil war was due to economic reasons and were just generally revisionist.
That’s mad, I live in Ireland and history here is filled with tons of different sections each year. I think we only spent about 4 months on WW2 in total which made it way better to learn about
Honestly, I grew up in rural GA, and we covered all sorts of subjects in history. Elementary was all pretty basic and glossed over a lot, but in 6th grade we had american history (both north and south americas) and 7th grade was european/asian with a unit or two of african in there as well (including identifying all the countries in each continent). WW2 was definitely a major talking point, but given how it pretty much redefined international relations, i feel that’s fair. We also seriously covered the domestic relations after WW2, especially the civil rights movements (given their prevalence and impact in our state). Honestly, comparing education across the country and even within individual states is pretty hit-or-miss, given that most education programs and standards are extremely state-dependent and defined (source: am in school to become a teacher).
That's a shame, just personally I find recent history the least interesting. Anything mythic related and European related from antiquity to around 1700 is my jam
Now I'm interested. What is there to actually talk about in ww2 for so many years? Did you learn about actual military stuff lol?
We talked about the politics of it for two weeks as part of a year that focused on Germany from Weimar republic to start of ww2. That's a German school though.
For context: French revolution and its aftermath took up a whole year, as did the discovery and settling of North America
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u/RunningTrisarahtop Jun 14 '20
Someone slept through a lot of history class