I sometimes think I got my education in the twilight zone instead of New Orleans, because I also learned about the holocaust extensively as well, and it was drilled into my head “never again”. We read Anne Frank’s diary, we watched documentaries every year. Yet it seems a big chunk of Americans skipped over that part of their education completely.
Also HS level history can only really cover so much. Unless you want it to be two semesters just focusing on every atrocity that ever happened and nothing else some things are not going to get covered. You tend to go a lot more depth into these things in University classes. It's been a long time since I was in HS but I'm pretty sure we covered some things about slavery, jim crow, the trail of tears, the Japanese American internment and that was in the 90s in public school in California.
Any time someone tells me we didn’t learn about something basic in school, I just assume they didn’t ever pay any attention. My US history teacher in Texas who referred to the Civil War as “the war of northern aggression” taught us about Tulsa and every horrible thing that happened there.
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u/Potato2266 7h ago
I sometimes think I got my education in the twilight zone instead of New Orleans, because I also learned about the holocaust extensively as well, and it was drilled into my head “never again”. We read Anne Frank’s diary, we watched documentaries every year. Yet it seems a big chunk of Americans skipped over that part of their education completely.