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What do they teach you about your country during history class (or social studies as it's called in places)?

My teacher cusses in front of the class and makes pop culture references to teach American history.

The woman is old, and this country seemed to be of key importance during the WWII apparently. >.>

My teacher is boring

And we don't even learn about America e.e

We're learning about Europe!

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Normally my class consists of many Minecraft references, due to the iron mentioned many times XP

We get the facts and we are encouraged to look at them from every possible viewpoint of the specific time period.

AP classes rock.

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The woman is old, and this country seemed to be of key importance during the WWII apparently. >.>

Hail Hydra!

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We get the facts and we are encouraged to look at them from every possible viewpoint of the specific time period.

AP classes rock.

This. AP classes are actually really good, in every subject.


As per the topic, I don't have any history classes this year per se.

Depends on the teacher. My ex-navy teacher was awesome and looked at everything from both points of view. My other one just went on with how horrible it was, and how lucky we are now.

I stopped taking History after year 10, but apparently there is some New Zealand history in it, which is apparently really boring. It's pretty much 'The English got people to sign a treaty and totally ****ed everyone over'. The rest is actually remotely interesting stuff about the rest of the world, like WWII and the black rights movement in America.

Oh you know..
The usual lies and bullcrap that they tell us continually in day to day life to keep us distracted from more important things.
Isn't life on this planet just wonderful?! :D

IKR!!

Wait, new thing. (Specifically for anyone in France) In America, students have an English class talking about writing and reading, and an optional French class for learning French. Is it the opposite across the pond? Or do you guys have like a writing class? (I guess it could go for any language really)

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IKR!!

Wait, new thing. (Specifically for anyone in France) In America, students have an English class talking about writing and reading, and an optional French class for learning French. Is it the opposite across the pond? Or do you guys have like a writing class? (I guess it could go for any language really)

Yes, over here we have English as a second language subject. Like how you would treat French over there in America. Athough English is mandatory, and French is optional xP

My Social Studies Teacher and I can't stand each other.

We are taught lies about our country's history.

I don't have social studies this year (I honestly have never been a fan of it in all my elementary and middle school years so I'm okay with the break). Next year I'll be taking world history, junior year I'll be taking US history, and senior year is economics for a semester and then government for the second semester, so I'll have to get back to you...

Regardless I can remember a bit of social studies from middle school (I absolutely despised how they taught it to us in elementary and have totally forgotten what I learned then):

6th - We learned a bit about Europe and Russia, other things too but I forgot them. The first semester we had a teacher who was elderly but nice, though he almost never laughed. The second semester we had a different one, she was alright but kinda strict.

7th - We learned about geography, the holocaust, Mahatma Gandhi, a lot about countries in Asia (specifically China, North and South Korea, and Japan), a few other things. The teacher was pretty nice and lighthearted, but his class was the only class I've ever been super close to falling asleep in during middle school.

8th - We watched CNN student news every Friday, we learned about the American Revolutionary War and other things around that time period and before that, about Lewis and Clark, about the Indian Removal Act, a few other things. The teacher was nice, she almost never frowned, seriously.

Yeah, I'm really bored

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He's the biggest patriot I've ever met. He sucks the life out of us every class so he can live forever. He must be like, 400 or something.

He thinks everyone america has slaughtered deserved to die, and if we don't support everything our sick and twisted military does, we suck. He believes that every American is some sort of god and he talks about other countries like they're trash, England specifically. He never shuts up about "England and their tyranny". Good god.

Well.....a lot of **** over here in US. I'm not proud of some of the stuff our country has done.

This year we're learning about Texas History. Strangely, the US has been involved a lot.

I have no History

I had it for a year tough, all they yelped about was Prehistoric shiz we don't even NEED to know.

Well there isnt much history about Brazil

All you can learn about it its dates, names, treaties and how corrupt ppl were back then... And incredbly it still in that way >.>
What can we do, Portugal discovered it *joking*

We're learning about the world wars, and our teacher is hilarious he acts, swears and never gives homework unless we're nearing a test

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We're learning about the world wars, and our teacher is hilarious he acts, swears and never gives homework unless we're nearing a test

That sounds hilarious

When studying history, it is very important to know that you shouldn't force modern morals and ideas on past events; to get the best understanding of history, you need to look at it like people did back in the period. For example, today we consider it very barbaric and cruel to invade another nation for territorial and economic gain, but up until about 200 years ago, that was the way the world worked, and sometimes it was thought necessary for survival.

In most countries in Europe and Asia, foreign language is taught at a very early age. Here in America, it's not taught until high school.

That needs to change. Seriously.

Before I took history GCSE, we did post WW2 20th century. So... Korean war, cold war... Mostly cold war. In history GCSE I did 1918-1939 in Germany and America. So, that's post WW1 Germany, Nazi Germany, the roaring 20's in America, the Wall-street crash and getting out of the wall-street crash etc.

Did very little of the history of my own country, which I guess I had no issue with because I'd done that during primary school anyway.

I haven't had a history class in several years. Huzzah for a science-heavy college major. *brick'd*

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My teacher is boring

And we don't even learn about America e.e

We're learning about Europe!

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Normally my class consists of many Minecraft references, due to the iron mentioned many times XP

COAL beans bro-*brick'd*

We learn about Napolean and Hitler campaign
If my country had to choose a side on ww2 they would join Hitler

i learned a lot about history from a classmate's anal report, he said last week he was gonna like, eat at burger world with his friend and his friend made a butt out of burger buns and it was cool and then his friend also pointed out how if you look at the window you can stare at chicks without them seeing you and it was cool and changed his life and stuff and he will never forget it. the end

We're learning about the history of America. Right now we just took a quiz on the California Gold Rush. We mainly just do stuff out of a textbook without spending much time on it. D:
My history teacher...well, she's nice, but not really that notable. My classmates, on the other hand, are absolute idiots. They're constantly talking and swearing and getting off-topic and the teacher does nothing about it. :c Stupid public schooling.

slaves convicts and migrants

oh australia : )

I take Big History, which is the study of the history of pretty much everything, starting from The Big Bang.

I like the teacher, he's funny and enjoyable. However, I don't like how he talks about Christianity. I get that it's his opinion, it's just upsetting to me.

We learnt about WW1, WW2 and England history stuff. I am glad I don't have to learn about America's history.

oh yeah i also learned about history from a report of another classmate, he said one time he kicked a friend in the nads and he was like, passed out all day. he like turned blue and stopped breathing. then like he couldn't remember his name. the end

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oh yeah i also learned about history from a report of another classmate, he said one time he kicked a friend in the nads and he was like, passed out all day. he like turned blue and stopped breathing. then like he couldn't remember his name. the end

Truly awful. I feel sorry for him. That kid should be in big trouble!

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We're learning about the world wars, and our teacher is hilarious he acts, swears and never gives homework unless we're nearing a test

That sounds hilarious

It is indeed

My history teacher is my Geo teacher and also is the english teacher

Two I am worst at I don't want to learn australia history I want to learn Irish,Japanese,Mid east,asia, and American history
not aussie Bass and Flinders finding bass straight ugh I don't care seriously.

Plus when he always says ask for help then when it comes to you for asking for help well he is snappy,argumentative and shouts at you or you one of your classmate/friends for not doing your work. Ugh

(finished ranting)

Sorry for the rant I just needed that out of the system

My teacher thought me that Abe Lincoln was a dictator.

We don't learn about America in 9th grade.

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oh yeah i also learned about history from a report of another classmate, he said one time he kicked a friend in the nads and he was like, passed out all day. he like turned blue and stopped breathing. then like he couldn't remember his name. the end

Truly awful. I feel sorry for him. That kid should be in big trouble!

he got a D- but it was pretty cool, mmkay

Everything you learn in History is a lie.

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we learn about how many asses america kicked since 1776

Pretty much this. Funny how a bunch of people who had absolutely NO chance against their old rulers, ended up becoming one of the most powerful countries in the world.

i was taking a modern america history.... and it was really depressing, we saw how america got corrupted

Well... In 6th grade I barely learned crap about the Greeks.

In 8th grade I learned about Australia, the Middle East and it's religions, China. Heck my Geography Teacher even went to Australia during that year over winter break. That was really awesome.

10th grade we learned more about history of such things, Like the world wars, revolution, How america was discovered. A lot of things. And the Teacher was super awesome.

11th grade I have U.S. History, which is basically learning about America's history, or most of the time it is. We're learning deeper in WWII. Apparently the government told Walt (Yep Walt Disney people!) to make some cartoons to help with the war and such, and Walt made 68 hours of such cartoons. Most of them being minutes. Which is a lot of cartoons. And the Teacher is actually a very cool guy, he has outside hobbies. He even collects stuff, like Star Wars. Plus he teaches film studies, which some of my friends have. So he's a awesome teacher.