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femmedem

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8. I can imagine thinking it was too horrific to ever mention to a kid

Mon Nov 21, 2022, 06:33 AM

Nov 2022

and trusting that he'd learn in school.

And I can also imagine it not being part of a school curriculum for the same reason. I'm not sure I learned about it in school--maybe from documentaries on TV? I remember watching Hogan's Heroes for a long time and not connecting it to anything like the Holocaust.

And I can imagine Florida passing a Never Say Nazi bill.

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How can you be 43 and not know who Hitler was and what he did? [View all] no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 OP

"only has a HS education" Behind the Aegis Nov 2022 #1

I've been thinking about that, but no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 #2

"Are textbooks scrubbed clean now?" Behind the Aegis Nov 2022 #3

Perhaps it is regional, but I've dealt with many who took whatever foundation and continued hlthe2b Nov 2022 #13

So you're saying that "Only a H.S education" JPPaverage Nov 2022 #14

+10 nt reACTIONary Nov 2022 #22

This Ferrets are Cool Nov 2022 #27

THIS! This is why the working class orthoclad Nov 2022 #28

Depends on the High School and what Reagonomics did to it here in the US. TigressDem Nov 2022 #33

That is the accepted dialogue about those who did not go into crippling debt. OldBaldy1701E Nov 2022 #37

No! They are saying it's not his fault he didn't know. raging moderate Nov 2022 #49

Most of the people in my family PatSeg Nov 2022 #50

My rural public high school taught us about the holocaust and WW2 IronLionZion Nov 2022 #51

Schools here have holocaust week, or murielm99 Nov 2022 #4

Educated after Reagan began the great republican disintegration of the USA sanatanadharma Nov 2022 #5

+ 1000 Prop 13 / California 1978 began the attack on education TigressDem Nov 2022 #34

Back Story no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 #6

Just goes to show that old saying, "We are only as sick as our secrets." IS STILL TRUE. TigressDem Nov 2022 #35

When I was aged 13 or 14, my father had me read Treblinka elias7 Nov 2022 #7

I can imagine thinking it was too horrific to ever mention to a kid femmedem Nov 2022 #8

Schools could add more info on WWII and the Civil War. multigraincracker Nov 2022 #9

Stupid is as stupid does SouthernDem4ever Nov 2022 #19

I've lived in the deep South all my 66 years... Ferrets are Cool Nov 2022 #30

Slavery was the economy of the South. multigraincracker Nov 2022 #31

I've been hearing that Civil War "economic" argument since I was in elementary school in Florida. sop Nov 2022 #45

Yup Ferrets are Cool Nov 2022 #56

I've lived in the cold north my whole life IronLionZion Nov 2022 #53

Where did he go to school? I'm not buying his claimed ignorance. oldsoftie Nov 2022 #10

A rural region of Passaic County in New Jersey. no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 #11

Well that makes even LESS sense! I fully expected a state down south oldsoftie Nov 2022 #16

I tend to agree SouthernDem4ever Nov 2022 #21

Unfortunately "willful ignorance" seems to be a "thing" these days too. oldsoftie Nov 2022 #46

I taught in two N.J. high schools. WW II and Holocaust was not part of curriculum in either 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 #29

That he didn't learn in school is abysmal, but I am quite certain I knew the truth of Hitler and hlthe2b Nov 2022 #12

I graduated from high school in Pennsylvania in 1989 Orrex Nov 2022 #15

I encountered someone with a Masters who had never heard of Bastille Day bucolic_frolic Nov 2022 #17

Let's hope the Masters wasn't in History SouthernDem4ever Nov 2022 #20

I remember hearing about it from school, but mostly parents and news orgs SouthernDem4ever Nov 2022 #18

He serks attention like many others (on the right) Catherine Vincent Nov 2022 #23

Patient political education is needed. David__77 Nov 2022 #24

towards the back of the book and the class never reached it dembotoz Nov 2022 #25

Another Wisconsin education survivor here keroro gunsou Nov 2022 #52

given all the crt bullshit you would trust national standards? dembotoz Nov 2022 #59

If left in the hands keroro gunsou Nov 2022 #60

Yes. I have seen this happen. raging moderate Nov 2022 #57

It's been a long time since HS for me but Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #26

Everything you said. Same experience. I have been ranting about it for years. twodogsbarking Nov 2022 #39

Maybe there needs to be a popular video game that illustrates the reasons for WWII and Ferrets are Cool Nov 2022 #32

Kids now mollie8 Nov 2022 #36

If the RePutinicans and Shitstains like DuhhSantis have control NoMoreRepugs Nov 2022 #38

I graduated from HS without knowing anything about WW2 Demobrat Nov 2022 #40

Ignorance is celebrated ramapo Nov 2022 #41

As troubling as it is to think of an adult being ignorant of the Nazi regime... Harker Nov 2022 #42

Someday it will be 43 year olds not knowing what slavery was in America Ohioboy Nov 2022 #43

Too much college football. Not enough fancy book learnin. Ray Bruns Nov 2022 #44

We should attack the issue. The issue is education. The Jungle 1 Nov 2022 #47

My elementary school showed newsreels of emaciated bodies being bulldozed into a pit. Never forgot. Marcuse Nov 2022 #48

Heads on Desks Desert_Leslie Nov 2022 #54

Education is not failing over the details of past events, it is failing because it doesn't teach Chainfire Nov 2022 #55

Boomer here ... Texaswitchy Nov 2022 #58