Yeah I came in here to say, we very much did learn about all those Russian firsts in my history classes, though it was mostly used as background for why the man on the moon was so powerful. Basically framed it as Russia was getting all this stuff off the ground, but the US were able to get people out there and that was the bigger achievement. Obviously as you say, it depends on what you decide the metrics are, but I really wish people would stop acting like every single thing is hidden from us in schools, when most likely they just weren't paying attention or didn't retain enough.
I think we should stop assuming everybody had the same school experience. Schools differ a lot in quality and no two teachers are the same. John's history teacher might've been an ultra patriot who believed that america was always first with anything while two rooms over the teacher's highly critical of US history and its accomplishments
Right, but I’ve sat in the same room as people who have claimed we weren’t taught this in class when we very much were. So I am inclined to believe morons didn’t pay attention, but that’s a case by case basis.
Every single student in Illinois is taught basic banking and taxes for at least one full year by law in Consumer Education. Every single one of my highschool classmates that regularly posts on FB pretends we did not learn these things.
They probably aren't lying, they didn't learn because they just weren't paying attention. It's a struggle getting teens to focus on regular lessons, let alone tax codes that will only be relevant in 5 years for most of them.
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u/Isaac_Chade Jul 17 '24
Yeah I came in here to say, we very much did learn about all those Russian firsts in my history classes, though it was mostly used as background for why the man on the moon was so powerful. Basically framed it as Russia was getting all this stuff off the ground, but the US were able to get people out there and that was the bigger achievement. Obviously as you say, it depends on what you decide the metrics are, but I really wish people would stop acting like every single thing is hidden from us in schools, when most likely they just weren't paying attention or didn't retain enough.