fractal enchantment said:
Government involvment in education here in canada means lie to the children and change history, leave out the parts you dont want to tell them..
For instance..they completely glorified the underground railroad, making canada out to be the fucking holy land that it is not...they went on and on abouthow canada was this totally free country, free of salvery and racial prejudice...
But they never tell you a thing about all the residential schools, all the native families they broke up, the native children they tested turberculosis on..they make the RCMP (royal canadain mounted police) out to be the white nights they aren't, not tellign the children a thing about the real history of the RCMP..that they were created to controll the native population durring the time of residential school..I did not hear one THING about this in a classroom until I hit colledge, and only in a specific anthropology class on native culture..
I wonder how most canadians would view the history of this country if they were told the truth and the whole story in the classroom.
I dont know about the US becasue I did not got to school there..but thats what you get in canada when the government is too involved in overseeing what you can and cannot terach in the classroom.
Yeah, it was pretty much the same when I went to school in the US. Very war-centric, too. It pretty much goes Revolution, War of 1812 (Revolution With a Vengeance!), Civil War, skip ahead, WW1 (as a brief prologue), WW2, waste time until the end of the semester. And that's pretty much it, except for some bits about colonials, natives, a short paragraph on the Trail of Tears and maybe a chapter each on the Industrial Revolution and Civil Rights Movement.