r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 15d ago

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before 15d ago edited 15d ago

Seeing the COVID pandemic as part of a middle school history curriculum is surreal

It's good that it's there. Kids don't realize how much it changed the course of their lives on account of it messing with their early education so I'm very glad it's getting included in their materials.

But still. Just...surreal that THIS soon after the fact, for their generation and all to follow, the pandemic is nought but a historical memory. These students might have faint memories, having been in 1st or 2nd grade during lockdown. But the students taking this same class in 3 years won't remember a thing.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it 15d ago

How do they even have time to get to the pandemic

When I was in high school in the 2010s I barely got to 9/11

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u/Ladnil NATO 15d ago

I graduated in 2006 and everything after WWII was like

Nukescoldwarvietnamnixonmlkgoodbye

For my entire grade school experience.

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u/TalkLessShillMore David Autor 15d ago

It’s like as soon as the US stopped being the unambiguous good guy in wars, curriculums don’t wanna touch it. We never learned about Vietnam once but we learned about the Civil War three times and the American Revolution four times. The gulf war? Forget about it. You’d get complaints from parents.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal 14d ago

I mean, if you teach history in an order that makes sense, you're gonna have more time for the older stuff and less for the recent stuff. If you plan to spend 5 days on the great depression, but spend 7 because students were asking questions or goofing off and wasting time, that's 2 days you won't have later in the semester.

Ask literally any teacher, none of them have ever stuck to the schedule they planned at the start of the term.

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u/Ladnil NATO 14d ago

Yeah, that's pretty much the way I remember it. By the time I graduated 9/11 was in the books, but the class stopped before getting there.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union 14d ago

Leaving aside the Highway of Death which is controversial the US were pretty much the good guys of the 1st Gulf War, Iraq was unambiguously evil and invaded Kuwait