PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM t1_itwg3os wrote on October 26, 2022 at 8:19 PM

Reply to comment by Seasnek in Young voters are so important by mooscaretaker

I remember history was the big stressor for me in 9th grade.

Really useful that class was; how often I had to know Tutankhamun's family.

Civics would have been much better.

JasonDJ t1_itwt34v wrote on October 26, 2022 at 9:43 PM

I think 8th grade was the only year I had “civics”. Every other year was world or US history. Had an elective in HS that focused on WW2 Germany/The Holocaust. Another elective on criminal justice. Another elective for anthropology.

I don’t think US history ever made it past the 30s.

Johnston High, class of 2003.

Dorothy-Snarker t1_itxzlid wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:05 AM

I remember complaining that my history classes always ended at WWII (after skipping over WWI completely--I had no idea what it was about until I took a class in college). Today they sometimes seem to go to Vietnam at least.

The ending on WWII year after year actually caused me to hate WWII. Don't talk to me about it! It's boring! My father, who's own father fought in WWII, thinks I'm a heathen, but I'm just sick of it. There are so many more interesting history periods. Can we please learn something else? Hell, even in 20th Century America, there is a stuff of cool stuff my history classes never got to that I didn't learn about until college.