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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What a bizarre experience.

When I was in school...I'm pretty sure the state history cirriculum was designed to be America centric, and pro-America. Any nation a boomer would remember being at war with? Not in the history books, or they appear out of nowhere, do something pro-America, and then disappear again, like Russia did from 1939 to 1945. And both World and US history classes end at 1950 because 1. to the limp dicks that actually make the policy, "The fifties are practically now" and 2. we haven't done much "being the good guys" since the jitterbug fell out of fashion.

So I'm not used to seeing something in a history textbook that isn't from at least two of my lifetimes ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

We homeschool our kids, and are religious, but we are heavily opposed to Christian nationalism, and want our kids to learn what actually happened, not some whitewashed curriculum that downplays anyone particular people's ideological downfalls.

We found a curriculum, but it took a while. One of the first ones I opened to read through had a first chapter titled "God's gift to the world through America" noped right out of that one...

[–] Scientician 1 points 10 months ago

We had the same textbooks I see.