That was weird when brontosaurus went away. Ever since, I've always wondered what kind of burger Fred Flintstone was actually eating.I went to school when a brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. Later it was discovered that it had the wrong head.
That was weird when brontosaurus went away. Ever since, I've always wondered what kind of burger Fred Flintstone was actually eating.I went to school when a brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. Later it was discovered that it had the wrong head.
I moved a couple of times growing up and never ending up doing D.A.R.E.. (Is it still a thing?)
I still don't know why WWI happened and was recently discussing this with someone else who also never learned why.Personal finance was never taught to us, but I think it was assumed that our parents would instruct us in that.
I hated how history was taught. Dates and names, dates and names. The "why" was never taught. I hated history for that reason. I had to develop my current love of history much later in life when I took the time to appreciate the reasons behind everything.
I still don't know why WWI happened and was recently discussing this with someone else who also never learned why.
In third or forth grade, maybe both, we used to have writing class which basically consisted of us writing in cursive. Also, all reports we turned in for any subject needed to be written in cursive. To this day, my cursive writing is very neat but my printing sucks. A lot of good the cursive thing does me.
For me personally, I am bad at grammar, so I feel that my education failed me in that regard. My life depends on spell/grammar check.
TLDR version: entangling alliances, a rigidness of sticking to plans/trust in generals, and the belief that "modern" countries (countries in 1914) were so economically interconnected that they couldn't have a long war.I still don't know why WWI happened and was recently discussing this with someone else who also never learned why.
I still don't know why WWI happened and was recently discussing this with someone else who also never learned why.
To be fair, my post only means it's a bad idea to have it, not that schools have stopped doing it hahaPretty sure it's not - as @WooClone15 pointed out, once you tell kids how good those drugs make you feel, more kids decided to try them out. For our class, since my dad was good friends with the chief deputy of the local sheriff's department, we got to tour the jail and get locked in cells. That left a lasting impression.
TLDR version: entangling alliances, a rigidness of sticking to plans/trust in generals, and the belief that "modern" countries (countries in 1914) were so economically interconnected that they couldn't have a long war.
How'd I do, @CycloneErik?
I still don't know why WWI happened and was recently discussing this with someone else who also never learned why.
I still don't know why WWI happened and was recently discussing this with someone else who also never learned why.
How to read a newspaper. Today, I wonder how well students are being taught how to use critically the results of a Google search?
History in general. And I was in the same school district for K-12, so can't blame it on moving.
Mostly the scope and sequence seemed a bit off, like we concentrated heavily on certain things and other things just weren't covered at all, or were just given a cursory glance.
Here's a synopsis of history as I was taught from late elementary through high school (I finished high school in the late 90's):
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There were some Greek philosophers doing some stuff, and they invented democracy. But everyone quickly forgot about democracy and then came the medieval times, which mostly involved kings building awesome castles, and trying to knock down their rivals' castles with catapults.
A couple years later, Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Finding the new world, a bunch of other cool and brave explorers sailed around in boats and met with Indians for a good while. Speaking of Indians, did you know they were really good at planting corn and building lots of different types of houses? Some houses were long and made of mud bricks, some lived in adobe caves, and some lived in tepees. There were awesome sounding tribe names too, like Cherokee, Choctaw, and Sioux. Meanwhile, Pilgrims & Williamsburg happened, and soon there were a lot of colonists who were really hearty living in North America and they made things by hand, like horseshoes.
Some of the colonists read some books and remembered democracy, so they got mad at “taxation without representation” and threw tea in the ocean. This angered the British, so they sent their army to the colonies, which made some important guys declare the American colonies to be an independent nation, and those important guys picked George Washington to be their leader. Washington defeated the British in the Revolutionary War and we got a country! ‘Merica!
George and his friends forgot about the slavery thing, so shortly thereafter Abe Lincoln tried to fix it but this made some guys in the south mad, so the Civil War happened. The north won and slavery went away. (Insert watching the movies “Glory” and “Dances with Wolves”) Yea!
Not much else happened after that, except World War Two. Which is kind of strange, because while there must have been a World War One, no one really knows anything about it. Regardless, the good guys won both.