Our education system (USA) is in a sorry mess!

Originally Posted by Damien435

Wow, my last four years went like this:

Year, Class, Description
1.) Civics, studying the laws that govern our land.
2.) More civics
3.) 20th Century American History, Civil War to WWI, skip WWI, Great Depression, skip WWII and Korea, study Johnson's "Great Society", mention Vietnam, and umm, yep, that's it.
3.) Modern History, Start with the discovery of the New World, went at a good pace before stopping at WWI.
3.) Government, studying the laws that govern our land, and point out that the laws western society lives by are all derived from the Bible so to say that a (Western) nation wasn't founded on Jewish or Christian beliefs is rather incorrect.
4.) AP World History, Well, let's see, started with paleolithic era, I believe, studied Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China and we ended with a six week project on the Holocaust, somehow skipping over every single war between the dawn of man and WWII, err, Holocaust.

OMG! So they actually WANT history class to be boring by leaving out all the good bits?! That's insanity.

I read a book once called "The very bloody history of Britain (Without the boring bits)", which did only focus on wars and intrigues.

On the AP World History test we took for college credits there were two questions regarding warfare, both were related to the Pelliponesian Wars (butchered that).

And my AP World History teacher said that China could arm 500,000,000 men and send endless human waves that would overwhelm any enemy and that any country, including, no, especially the US would be unable to defend against Chinese attacks. I tried to explain to her a little about the logistics of such a thing but she said I was misguided.

I guess your teacher would be wrong on both US-capabilities and contemporary Chinese strategy, Damien.

You might want to explain a little something to your teacher about bringing a knife to a gunfight.

I don't give a d*mn how many people you line up to make an attack ... if the other side resorts to nuclear tactics then no matter how many people are lined up - just one weapon can take such a bite out of the wave that they won't stand a chance.

Idiots who DON'T understand real tactics should leave fighting and the planning for battle to those who know what the sam h*ll they're doing.

Evidently your teacher is one of those who don't know their b*nghole from a hole in the ground.

That's the thing about some teachers. They seem to have a "my way or the highway mentality" regardless of the truth. I remember one of my son's high school teachers saying that the state of Rhode Island had the longest coastline of any state in the country! I had my son look it up and then politely ask the teacher about what he'd found. The next day my son came home and told me that the teacher got a bit upset and refused to admit his error. I had to go in and have a face to face with that teacher. He changed his mind and apologized. BTW, he no longer teaches at that school, coincidence?

lmao!

In the teacher's own defense though, Rhode Island does have a longer coastline than my state, South Dakota.

My teacher skips the "unimportant parts of history" like wars, we covered WWI without major battle names, or anything of that sort; the only thing that came out of the war era was the political dession to go into WWI and the economic history.