Here’s a likely answer to Msmlib ignorance on US history.
When my daughter was in High School a few years back she had a history final on the Rev war. She brought me the paper (got an 88). I read it and sat there wondering how you can do a paper on the revolutionary War, end it at PR’s ride and get a passing grade. My question “Where’s the actual war kid???” Her answer...”We were tested on what they taught us. That’s as far as they taught us Dad.”
She got schooled on the rest over the next few days. ;)
There should be more parents like yourself! :)
Thanks for teaching your daughter the “rest of the story”!!
My kid’s learned about the Industrial Revolution at home a few weeks ago. The HISTORY teacher skipped that part of the text book so they could spend three fricken weeks on their Earth Day project.
My kid’s celebrated the Industrial Revolution on Earth Day by turning on all the lights. After looking at me funny - their “Did you turn off the light in your room” dad. (When they realized I was serious, they couldn’t run around fast enough turning them all on!)
In schools today, ‘history’ pretty much begins with the ‘War Between the States’..... Nothing happened in America before then....