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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I will admit the reason my last two years were such a stark contrast to my previous years was because I went from honors down to basic because I went to a vocational high school, Diamond Oaks, and they only had the base classes

But still I never want to have another history class on WW2 again, I don't mind learning the era but I've relearned the same thing over and over again

[–] JJROKCZ 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

American schools cover the civil and 2 great wars because those were the last times we were arguably the good guys. Every war since has been a conflict we started by meddling or we had no good reason to be there

[–] jaybone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lol and saying “we” were the good guys in the civil war implies that we were also the bad guys, so that one cancels.

[–] JJROKCZ 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yea but the good side won it so alls well that ends well right!?!?!?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

WW2 again, I don't mind learning the era but I've relearned the same thing over and over again

When your history class is written by the same folks responsible for the History Channel circa ~2002-2010.

[–] experbia 1 points 1 week ago

every year of high school I and the rest of my class ('08) had was the same curriculum repeatedly.

history: ww2 bulletpoints, same as last year. write a paper about how bad the nazis were but how complex the situation was, actually, so don't be so judgemental.
lit: baseball?? books and writing exercises about baseball.
math: algebra 1 over and over. I once got sent to the office for a disciplinary discussion for asking if we'll ever hit algebra 2.
PE: no, none whatsoever.
art: watch whatever movies, free form ungraded discussion aka nobody does shit.
science: watch vaguely sciencey documentaries and write a paper about an animal's behavior and habits.
electives: none, a myth we heard whispers of amongst older friend siblings.
foreign language: Spanish 1, every year.

i left right before my senior year and started working. I've never been sure if that was the right call or not but my friends that graduated are borderline illiterate to this day and completely math averse for sure. so I don't think another year of ww2 baseball algebra would have helped me much more.