It's like that (you did get taught it you just weren't paying attention) and the myth Americans don't also get taught the metric system in school, we just later in life decide not to use it, that are my two least favorite things on reddit about schools.
Yeah science classes were always in metric. I'm assuming shop and home-ec were imperial, but those were electives not everybody took anyway. Everybody did all their lab work in metric, starting from elementary school.
I don't remember what shop was but I know for a fact those jobs use both and they hate it because they want people to just pick one and they don't care which one as long as it's the only system
The number of “they don’t teach this in school” history facts that I see on the internet that I absolutely learned about in school is astonishingly high.
It’s a weird dichotomy because it suggests both that the education system is definitely better than people suggest but then those same people not knowing what’s taught in schools seem to prove that the system is, in fact, failing. 😂
Theres a lot of variation in the quality of US schooling, both over time and geographically, ao ots possible these people really didnt learn it. Its also quite likely they simply didnt pay any attention to the "boring" bits that weren't about US exceptionalism.
There are a lot of people that need to compensate for some perceived lack of teaching on this issue with massive propaganda in the other direction, stuff thst bares a suspicious resemblance to the official version of a certain large country in far eastern Europe, wonder why that could be?
Oikophobia, a phenomenon running wild in the US for quite some time.
It's nice when the US citizens can point out factual flaws about their country, it stops being nice when it turns into zealous contrarianism due to pure hatred for anything and anyone their own.
I went to school in Virginia during the freaking Cold War and we still learned about the massive Soviet contribution during WWII. It sets the stage for Marshall Plan and the Cold War, so it's pretty important
Yeah, I went to school in New York during the cold war, and we absolutely spent a significant amount of time on it as well.
That being said, education is vastly unequal across the US, so it's entirely possible that large swaths of people either didn't learn about it, or it wad given a cursory once over and forgotten about immediately.
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u/athenanon 9d ago
I went the school in the US and the Soviet contribution definitely was given its due.
I really think a lot of people overestimate the attentiveness they had as students.