I don't think any of our teachers use textbooks anymore. If you think your history education was bad, mine was awful.
Elementary school : Almost nothing. No, really. I don't think I was formerly taught about the civil war until high school.
Middle school "social studies" : global warming (yes, global warming), islam, native Americans, silk road, world religions, Timbuktu. I honestly cannot remember anything else.
In high school, only very basic US government is taught. 95% of kids probably never read the constitution or really know what it says. Most kids can probably only remember at most half the presidents. Unless they took AP US history, most don't know when major events occurred (ex. Civil War ~ early 1860s, WW1 ~ late 1910s, WW2 ~ early 1940s, etc.).
I don't think any of our teachers use textbooks anymore. If you think your history education was bad, mine was awful.
Elementary school : Almost nothing. No, really. I don't think I was formerly taught about the civil war until high school.
Middle school "social studies" : global warming (yes, global warming), islam, native Americans, silk road, world religions, Timbuktu. I honestly cannot remember anything else.
In high school, only very basic US government is taught. 95% of kids probably never read the constitution or really know what it says. Most kids can probably only remember at most half the presidents. Unless they took AP US history, most don't know when major events occurred (ex. Civil War ~ early 1860s, WW1 ~ late 1910s, WW2 ~ early 1940s, etc.).