• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    America won’t have schools in 20 years. If they did, reports would be authored by Chatbots. The rest of the world will have moved on to a world without USA.

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    2 months ago

    Oh please, schools barely made it past WW1 in history classes even when I was in school. They do a quick jump to the civil rights movement and then speed run through everything post 70s during that post-test period a few weeks before summer starts and everyone already knows if they’ve graduated

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      My partner and I are only just learning the details of the War of 1812 now that we’re in our 30s. Virtually everyone we’ve asked agrees that they were never taught much about it in school. It was maybe a page max, and we grew up in NY state.

      Now that we’re researching it and learning Canada’s side of it, it’s eye opening as to why we were never taught about it.

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          Tbf, I took a semester on Canadian History, and well, there’s not a lot there. It’s American history-lite. Like one of your big battles had like 30 casualties.

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    1 month ago

    I wonder if history books will have screen shots of shitter and shitheads social media posts.

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    It started with Monica’s dress.

    The idea that people were shocked by Bill Clinton was nonsensical. LBJ and Kennedy did far worse, and the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ kept it all quiet. The GOP knew that they were going to give the children of America a back door* sex education, and they didn’t care.

    *I knew it was going to sound awful but I decided why not?

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    The only thing I can hope for is one day, when I describe this to my kids, their reaction is, “What???”

    Maybe it’ll be grandkids…

  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    I truly believe we are nearing the end of the American experiment. Best of luck navigating out of all of this. I wish things were different.