Sacman said:
Sonic Doctor said:
Well I didn't get that in Elementary school... every year it was the same rehashed story about Thanksgiving that wasn't true anyway... and that's all we honestly heard on the subject, I had to learn a lot more from the History channel and, being Native American myself, my family members... though I went to catholic school, a catholic school that didn't even touch upon evolution in 8th grade biology despite the fact that there was an entire chapter about it in the book, so a skewed curriculum might have had something to do with it there... but Highschool wasn't much better, I took history 3 years, World History, Geography which doubled as a history class, and US History... Geography actually taught me more about Native Americans than US History did we pretty much just went over the whole Christopher Columbus thing, the revolution, than it skipped ahead to the civil war, industrial Revolution, WWI/WWII and finished in the Cold War... I remember my teacher brought War Hammer 40K figures so we can play out WWII battle scenarios... but we never learned anything significant about Native Americans all I remember is that they were briefly mentioned during the French and Indian war...
I see.
I didn't take Geography in high school, because it was a required class in 7th grade, with US history required in 8th grade, and since Geography was an elective in high school, I chose not to take it. In high school, I elected to take World history as a freshman though not many freshman took it so I was with a bunch of upperclassmen. Since it was clumped into the broad area of social sciences with history, I took Psychology as a sophomore. US History was a junior year requirement, and then Economics and Government both were required as a senior, though as a senor I also added Advanced US History(The only Advanced class I passed out of the three I took, Advanced Biology and Advanced Chemistry were big mistakes that I ended up dropping and getting an extra study hall hour for each one for the last half of the semesters I tried to take them).
I kind of find it sad that a good deal of my time in high school is getting blurred together. I didn't think I would already have such memory blurring at the age of 25. I only graduated from high school seven years ago, and it feels like it was ages ago.
One thing I wish they hadn't spoon fed me back then, was the idea that if I went to college that I was practically guaranteed to get a job. While I had some great times in college, it is a crock to say it will guarantee a job. Anymore nowadays, it seems like the only way to get any kind of job, is to have an inside connection before getting out of college. Plus, today, employers don't even look at college, they only care if the person has 3 to 5 years of experience, stupidly, that is entry level requirement.
Well, that got off track, hmmm, Independance day, Independence day.....my grandpa's birthday is on Independence day.
Meh, from what I have read, the original topic is only producing tangent conversations.