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The Irish brought the famine upon themselves because they didn't know fuck about growing potatos. True story.

I used to hate that history class was the exact same sequence of years over and over every single grade. It's like each successive grade just pretends that the previous one didn't have a history class.

It'd be amazing if WW2-present wasn't only covered in the last 3 weeks of class before summer vacation.

Just be happy you weren't learning about some terrorist Metis, or some chick who has chocolate named after her, or some stupid river valley. God, Canadian history was boring.

I've often wished to be this ignorant for just a day. Can you imagine how happy these people are? Memorizing new things happen every day for them.

Well, back when I was a wee lad, we used to do it like this: From 10 years old to 12 years old we do the cavemen and the rise of agriculture and civilisation, until the XVIIIth Century. From 13-14 we do XVIIth Century until 1914. From 14-15 we do XXth Century until today. Then from 15-16 we re-do the whole Caveman - Early XXth Century thing, and from 16-18 we re-do basically the XXth Century until today.

Writing all this (I had to check the actual French curiculum to remember), it's hard to see any logic. Except that the second time we go through History periods we do it more in-depth than the first time.

Keyword.

Granted, the gay's are smart about it. They have all the gay pride celebrations spread out through June, so you could start off at the california pride celebrations, then slowly make your way across the country for a little over a month.

Besides, Gay Pride is a community organized series of events, it's not a nationwide observance of all things *****. Black history month is observed in schools and workplaces. Pride is not.

Edited, Feb 17th 2009 10:03am by NixNot

On the surgeon's table, with a triple bypass.

Exactly. We have Casimir Pulaski Day here in Illinois entirely because there's a lot of noisy Poles who got their own holiday instead of crying over how come them black folks get a month

'Sides, we didn't leave because of famines so much as because other folks kept putting flags in our country.Growing stuff in the Midwest is about as challenging as finding salt water in the Pacific.

Edited, Feb 17th 2009 10:11am by Jophiel

I live in the ***************** Like there's flaming homos all over the place here.

Would be nice if History was taught to show both the point of view of the winners and losers from the start of ones schooling. Too many myths are still used to teach how morally better our forefathers were in the early grades. Other then knowing my family was descended from Miles Standish, all I knew about him came from a poem by Longfellow, until I reach adulthood.

I'm lucky to have a mother who would tell us about now our government did things wrong and abused it's power while we were taught the standard ********* Then I also was given a chance to take a radical American History class in 10th grade were instead of using the standard textbook, we used original documents and newspaper articles from the time. It really opens your eyes to see history as it was seen by the people who lived it then and not from the victorious.

While it would be nice to add the fact that many white indenture servants were told at the end of their indenture, they would not be allow their freedom since they were the same color as those who were slaves, in the general history books, it should be included with how all new groups of immigrates were treated as they came to America.

I.E. the difference in how the first Mayflower settles treated the Natives compared to the Pilgrims that follow them. I been reading up on the history now that I have a better understanding of how my family went from Mass, through Ohio and ended up in Illinois.

Oh, so you're a racist ******* in addition to being a general prick and conservative stooge?

I long ago stopped giving anything you said credence, but now I know you're beyond hope. Its people like you that bring America down. Go die in a fire.