Bill Nye booed in Texas

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Schools teach WWII in the States?
^Shit, I know that sounds insulting, but the overall impression I've gotten of the country over the last few months is less than flattering.

I remember getting about 30 minutes of it, before the hippies teaching us wanted to talk about the 50s.

I actually find that really funny, because I haven't learned anything at all about the 50s in school, and I'm in Grade 12. But then, you were in school quite some time ago, I suppose.

Fucking kids.  *waves cane menacingly, coughs consumptively*

[Thurnez Isa]

Maybe there's a generation of people who've never been exposed to the facts. I love this century

Relevant: http://www.clockcrew.cc/talk/showthread.php?t=91974

The girl is obviously not at fault. The school is, for expecting their students to pay the fuck attention.

Schools teach WWII in the States?
^Shit, I know that sounds insulting, but the overall impression I've gotten of the country over the last few months is less than flattering.

Tey touced upon it wen I was in school But that was six years ago I learned it in my sophomore year.

just be happy you didn't have to suffer through Canadian History class

I still get flashbacks of extreme boredom

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Maybe there's a generation of people who've never been exposed to the facts. I love this century

Relevant: http://www.clockcrew.cc/talk/showthread.php?t=91974

The girl is obviously not at fault. The school is, for expecting their students to pay the fuck attention.

Schools teach WWII in the States?
^Shit, I know that sounds insulting, but the overall impression I've gotten of the country over the last few months is less than flattering.

Tey touced upon it wen I was in school But that was six years ago I learned it in my sophomore year.

just be happy you didn't have to suffer through Canadian History class

I still get flashbacks of extreme boredom

Up til age 13, I was in St Johns, so I feel for ya.

"and in 1953, Canada grew XX bushel weights of rye, YY bushel weights of barley, ZZ bushel weights of wheat...in 1954, this was increased by almost 4% to dronedronedronedrone WAKE UP YOUNG MAN!"

[President Television]

Canadian history is awful and I'm glad I only had it for two years. There are downsides to living in a young, relatively peaceful country.

[Cain]

that kid obviously hasn't read enough pat buchanan
http://buchanan.org/blog/did-hitler-want-war-2068

Of course he wanted war. IIRC, the whole reason that the war started was that Hitler amassed a huge army and the Allies didn't do shit about it. Some people are idiots.

Hitler's actions from 1936 onwards were all designed to provoke war, and he got very angry when the Allies refused to play ball at, say, Munich.  Stropped around the place and shouted at people a lot.  Its very well documented, for instance, in Ian Kershaw's Nemesis, the comprehensive Hitler biography. 

But then, Buchanan was never really much of a historian, just a weirdo Hitler and Prussian autocracy fanboi.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Canadian history is awful and I'm glad I only had it for two years. There are downsides to living in a young, relatively peaceful country.

American history is distorted like a fun house mirror.  No, seriously.  Did you know that we won both wars with a tiny bit of help from our allies?  Also, we love to teach about the noble Native American, right up until we discovered oil in Oklahoma.  Then you never hear about them ever again.  Also, we didn't give those Indians smallpox-infected blankets, the British did.  Because the British were running things in, oh, 1820.

[Cain]

The World, According to the British Education Cirriculum

Egyptians did some stuff.
Greeks did some stuff.
Romans did some stuff.

A little bit later...

The War of the Roses
The Tudors
The Stuarts

A little bit later...

World War One starts.  Fucking Germans.
Boring bit.
World War Two starts.  Fucking Germans.  Fucking Yanks.  Fucking Soviets.  Also, Holocaust.

A little bit later...

its today!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The World, According to the British Education Cirriculum

Egyptians did some stuff.
Greeks did some stuff.
Romans did some stuff.

A little bit later...

The War of the Roses
The Tudors
The Stuarts

A little bit later...

World War One starts.  Fucking Germans.
Boring bit.
World War Two starts.  Fucking Germans.  Fucking Yanks.  Fucking Soviets.  Also, Holocaust.

A little bit later...

its today!

American history:

First there was the void, and it barfed out George Washington.

Then something something civil war something something WE SAVED THE WORLD THE END.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

Schools teach WWII in the States?
^Shit, I know that sounds insulting, but the overall impression I've gotten of the country over the last few months is less than flattering.

I remember getting about 30 minutes of it, before the hippies teaching us wanted to talk about the 50s.

I actually find that really funny, because I haven't learned anything at all about the 50s in school, and I'm in Grade 12. But then, you were in school quite some time ago, I suppose.

Fucking kids.  *waves cane menacingly, coughs consumptively*

my WWII history was taught by an army colonel so i had to learn all pattons strategic movements and various battle logistics  USELESS

[Payne]

The World, According to the British Education Cirriculum

Egyptians did some stuff.
Greeks did some stuff.
Romans did some stuff.

A little bit later...

The War of the Roses
The Tudors
The Stuarts

A little bit later...

World War One starts.  Fucking Germans.
Boring bit.
World War Two starts.  Fucking Germans.  Fucking Yanks.  Fucking Soviets.  Also, Holocaust.

A little bit later...

its today!

The Scottish Curriculum:

In Primary School:

Egyptians, maybe. But not much else.

In Secondary School:

The Great War (Covered in English class, via poetry)

The Industrial Revolutions (A big assed multi faceted look at the various different revolutions that get bundled under THE Industrial Revolution tag)

How is Edinburgh formed? (mostly the New Town development)

Voting reforms (mostly focused on the Suffragettes)

The rise of the Third Reich (From 1918 to 1939)

The Russian Revolution (from 1890 to 1924)

At least, that was what I had covered.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Suddenly, I feel very privileged to have taken AP World History, AP American History, and AP European History in high school...

Cainad,
still barely knows diddly squat, but at least I had the chance

[Darth Cupcake]

Suddenly, I feel very privileged to have taken AP World History, AP American History, and AP European History in high school...

Cainad,
still barely knows diddly squat, but at least I had the chance

I got my request to get into AP Euro denied.

And frankly, America was boring and taught with way too much liberal guilt for me to bother retaining any of the information imparted there. World history was neat though. Them ancient civilizations were NIFTY.

Not like I remember diddly squat about them.

[Elder Iptuous]

Suddenly, I feel very privileged to have taken AP World History, AP American History, and AP European History in high school...

I'm in the same tub, baker.
except the Europen History... huh, i don't even think that was offered separate from the World History (which was pretty much European History with little bits about non western civ)
That's definitely one thing i'm going to press hard for with my children's  education is that they have decent history taught to them.
Hell, I need to brush up.  Most of the history books I have read since high school are about specific facets of a time and place rather than an overview.
I feel the need to review the big picture so that I can place the various details properly....
Anybody got suggestions on a good World or US history "textbook"?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Schools teach WWII in the States?
^Shit, I know that sounds insulting, but the overall impression I've gotten of the country over the last few months is less than flattering.

I remember getting about 30 minutes of it, before the hippies teaching us wanted to talk about the 50s.

I actually find that really funny, because I haven't learned anything at all about the 50s in school, and I'm in Grade 12. But then, you were in school quite some time ago, I suppose.

Fucking kids.  *waves cane menacingly, coughs consumptively*

my WWII history was taught by an army colonel so i had to learn all pattons strategic movements and various battle logistics  USELESS

Not useless.

When you invade Minnesota, you'll be glad you sat through that.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Suddenly, I feel very privileged to have taken AP World History, AP American History, and AP European History in high school...

Cainad,
still barely knows diddly squat, but at least I had the chance

I just spent 32 years reading every history book I could find.