>>7902519>is american education meme accurate?Jesus motherfucking christ, you have no idea. To be fair it does depend on what state, what school, private or public, etc. But overwhelmingly they are lower than dogshit.
Of course there's the usual meme stuff like the holocaust studies elective being mandatory to offer in every high school, inadequate studies of foreign history and geography, etc. But it gets so much worse than that. Even our own history is barely taught. Despite taking a zillion classes involving our civil war in some way, almost all my knowledge of it comes from the Ken Burns documentary. At school they taught statistics and names of people, places, and events, without really explaining the significance of any of it. They focused overwhelmingly on how evil and awful slavery supposedly was and everything else was just pushed to the side or revolved around that. Same with the Pacific War and the Cold War, despite how important those conflicts were to our history not a single class on them was mandatory or even offered. Very little was taught about our involvement in WW1, and though there was a lot of stuff on the European side of WW2 almost nothing about the actual war was focused on, it was all holocaust stuff and how evil the nazis supposedly were. Most of my WW2 knowledge as a kid came from Company of Heroes.
Math and sciences are also totally inadequate. In 6th grade, they were teaching incredibly simple concepts like median and mode by using toys and counters. It took 10 minutes to take all that shit out and another 10 to put it all away, cutting the time we actually had to learn about these concepts with this botched method in half.
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