My school also didn't require anything on the constitution.

No specific class on the Constitution in Cherry Hill, but as part of US History 1 you do spend maybe a month or so...

No specific class on the Constitution in Cherry Hill, but as part of US History 1 you do spend maybe a month or so...

 

Sterling didn't even do that. As I recall we pretty much covered the same topics year after year, from elementary to high school.

 

Pilgrims

Revolution

Slavery

Civil War

Reconstruction

(in 5th grade) NJ History, Robber Barons how the unions saved the world, etc.

SOMETIMES WWI (but only about one class period a year usually)

WWII, with a focus on the holocaust, not so much about the events leading into, or the actual fighting, and though we mentioned Pearl Harbor, we NEVER discussed the Pacific war, apart from the Atomic Bombs.

Civil Rights.

 

That might be why I'm so fascinated with history, when you read other sources, the stuff they don't teach you about in school, you learn a lot more, and you tend to see that not only did the schools leave a lot out, but a lot of stuff didn't happen the way that they teach it. I usually buy older books for this reason.

 

The worst thing, When talking about how Germany got a raw deal in World War ONE, a kid asked if I was a Nazi symapthizer. I told him Germany deserved what they got in the SECOND world war, but that in the FIRST one, they got screwed. He told "corrected" me saying that the world war was the one with Hitler.

 

He didn't even know there was a FIRST World War.

My school also didn't require anything on the constitution.

 

That's sad.. Should be required curriculum for all..

Sterling didn't even do that. As I recall we pretty much covered the same topics year after year, from elementary to high school.

 

Pilgrims

Revolution

Slavery

Civil War

Reconstruction

(in 5th grade) NJ History, Robber Barons how the unions saved the world, etc.

SOMETIMES WWI (but only about one class period a year usually)

WWII, with a focus on the holocaust, not so much about the events leading into, or the actual fighting, and though we mentioned Pearl Harbor, we NEVER discussed the Pacific war, apart from the Atomic Bombs.

Civil Rights.

 

That might be why I'm so fascinated with history, when you read other sources, the stuff they don't teach you about in school, you learn a lot more, and you tend to see that not only did the schools leave a lot out, but a lot of stuff didn't happen the way that they teach it. I usually buy older books for this reason.

 

The worst thing, When talking about how Germany got a raw deal in World War ONE, a kid asked if I was a Nazi symapthizer. I told him Germany deserved what they got in the SECOND world war, but that in the FIRST one, they got screwed. He told "corrected" me saying that the world war was the one with Hitler.

 

He didn't even know there was a FIRST World War.

 

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that.

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Fortunately, I've supplemented my history education. I'm practically an encyclopedia of History. I partially get that from my Poppop, instead of watching Barney, and stuff when I was little, I'd listen to his war stories, or he'd show me documentaries on the World Wars, or the Civil War, things like that.

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Fortunately, I've supplemented my history education. I'm practically an encyclopedia of History. I partially get that from my Poppop, instead of watching Barney, and stuff when I was little, I'd listen to his war stories, or he'd show me documentaries on the World Wars, or the Civil War, things like that.

 

That's awesome. Still, I weep for the future.

That's awesome. Still, I weep for the future.

 

I do my part to educate others with their historical misconceptions. It's hard to undo the damage done by the public school system though.

I do my part to educate others with their historical misconceptions. It's hard to undo the damage done by the public school system though.

 

Yeah, it sucks. You wouldn't believe how many people I've talked to think that the civil war was fought SOLELY because of slavery.

Yeah, it sucks. You wouldn't believe how many people I've talked to think that the civil war was fought SOLELY because of slavery.

 

Not at all, it was states rights. If it were a different scenario, where the south didn't own slaves, but wanted to protect some other state's rights, then I wish they would have won honestly. I mean, I do think the Feds have too much power now.