• Zexks@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You’re going to a shitty school if they don’t cover this. We went over a part of it at least once a year. It’s it’s a you problem if you don’t know this by the time your done.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.works
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      55 minutes ago

      I remember my 4th grade teacher having us read one page about the Daughters of the Confederacy, the teacher briefly discussing the struggles of former slave-owners, and skipping the rest of the chapter on slavery due to “not having enough time.” IIRC, even the textbook painted the Daughters of the Confederacy in a positive, or at least neutral light.

      I remember my 7th grade health teacher showing us a Christian anti-masturbation video for our sex-ed requirement. This was a rural public school in a northern state. Only other option was a private Catholic school, but my family wasn’t Catholic, and my family wouldn’t have been able to afford to send me there if they wanted to.

      I don’t think I even knew about the trail of tears until the middle of high school; and definitely didn’t learn about the motivation for hunting Buffalo to extinction.

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      5 hours ago

      I don’t remember voting on the curriculum last time I was in school.

      I can now though, so thank you for telling me about this. It definitely should have been included.

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      6 hours ago

      a majority of states wouldn’t teach this if they could and there in lies the problem; if 2/3rds of all schools are shitty, then that is what’s normal and you’re going to have to live, work, vote & die along side people with that education.