>>507511026 (OP)Actual answer.
Our public education is shitty.
>only serious focus is on reading, writing, math, and science (only the mathematic parts) because that is all our national test focus on >other classes are treated as babysitting by admin so they don’t pay attention and teachers can go really in-depth or fuck around to no serious result either way >kids aren’t encouraged to retain information or think just recite formulas for correct answers >most classes aren’t even offered like civics, economics, home ec As a history teacher our expected lesson flow is fucked.
>Indians and pilgrims >time jump to colonies >talk about the most basic ass causes of the revolution>barely talk about the actual revolution >time skip to pre civil war >slavery bad slavery bad slavery bad slavery bad >talk about industrialization and the turn of the century >skip to WWI and spend a day or two at most on it >talk about the depression>skip to WW2 >only Hitler was evil and invaded everything to kill Jews for no reason >state mandated to make the entire section about the holocaust >maybe make it to civil rights movement >end of school year Now we only get a 180 days to cover this, but the priorities of both the mandated standards and schools constantly interrupting teachers to do stupid shit are fucked