Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesn’t help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries.
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SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He is either not a US American, or the “Never Forget” nation forgot to properly teach him.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught
see: forgot to properly teach him.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can lead a horse to water.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
but you can’t make it drink
For that, you’re gonna need a hose.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 month ago
I’d say they made the attempt, but if he didn’t listen that much, the problem is them passing him, not attempting to teach him.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
that is definitely a problem of the US education system. The “no child left behind” policy is absolute garbage.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
He doesn’t look that young. I can’t imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasn’t as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.
If he’s from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
He doesn’t look that young.
Eh, 9/11 was ~25 years ago. And if we assume that a child under the age of, say, 5 wouldn’t be interested in such things and wouldn’t be exposed to it much, especially if not in the US … then someone could feasibly be up to 30 years old right now and have been too young to notice or care when 9/11 happened.
And I don’t know about your age standards … but this guy looks like he could easily be under 30.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m very squarely in that age bracket and it was hard to ignore 9/11 if you were at all exposed to any media. I can’t imagine anyone 25-30 managing to entirely ignore 9/11 even without teachers talking about it. Maybe someone with the absolute peak of sheltering could ignore it. But outside of that I can’t imagine anyone in the US 25-30 having no clue.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i’d say anyone under 35 wasn’t really aware for it.
anguo@piefed.ca 1 month ago
35 might be an exaggeration, they would have been around 9 years old, old enough to remember something.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, this is definitely wrong. My younger brothers are significantly younger than 35 right now, and they still remember where they were when it happened.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.
I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.
How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ooh can confirm: Our coach taught us that nazi germany was communists and north korea killed more people than any civilization in history.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s so stupid. Everybody knows that Nazi Germany was socialist!
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Some people believe in anything…
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 month ago
When I was in school all the coaches taught physical education
Klear@piefed.world 1 month ago
Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught.
Fuck you, I’m not old!
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
What the hell is this coach thing?! No wonder some American schools have a teaching problem 😱, it’s already hard to get good teachers but letting mr run after the ball teach history…
Baffled.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When I was in schools, American history was Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, The Great Depression, and WWI. Then it was summer. We might have a school assembly in February to talk about MLK.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can’t be history.
mineralfellow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s so great that the US single handedly won the only war that ever happened in Asia. Good thing there hasn’t been any major conflict on that side of the world since then.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s kinda clear how the curriculum was designed, after all according to this class Japan was only discovered in 1939. Russia pops in an out of existence, Korea and Vietnam are fictional and Africa is where Egypt is.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you finish school prior to 2001? Cuz, I mean, that’s everything I learned in school too at that time.
But my daughter is 13 now, and I can confirm that she has been formerly told about 9/11. I don’t think with as much detail as she will learn in her during her high school tenure, but she at least knows about it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh yeah. I was in high school when 9/11 happened.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 month ago
My son asked me if I learned about 9/11 in school … and I was like uh yes, in a way.
(I was sitting in my psych class watching it happen live)
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
Yep. And with each successively later era in history being more and more rushed because the history teacher was always behind schedule and the big standardized tests at the end of the year ate up a lot of time.
And then next year, in the next history class, you start over at Pilgrims again!
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Homeschooled…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
o no I 💀 forgor 🗿
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
toynbee@piefed.social 1 month ago
[deleted]OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
Across the yard is a shed with “WAKE UP!” spraypainted on it.
But I thought they didn’t like “woke” stuff?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i REALLY want to go out there and carefully plan to paint over the first one and change it to LET’S GO BRAND and make it look like dingus ran out of space
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, the number of people talking about the 3 planes getting hijacked on another thread makes me think we’ve forgotten at least a little bit.
greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Many people are just alien tourists
Asetru@feddit.org 1 month ago
I live in one of those “never forget” nations that promised to never forget something… but it seems that we, too, managed to forget.
rotkehle@feddit.org 1 month ago
I feel you so much right now.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
I guess we are all in the same boat… Errr land.
decolo@piefed.social 1 month ago
Wow, you live in Boaterland? Do you know Jimmy on the east side?
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Germany with AfD becoming the largest individual party?
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Psssssst…
Damit besagte Personengruppen es vergessen könnten, müssten die es erstmal verstehen. Das würde Bildung erfordern und da wird dann schwierig…
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It is more that the rich ensured that education focused primarily on the aesthetic horrors of fascism rather than its material origin. The impetus for bonapartist tendencies was never removed so it eventually returned as conditions necessitated. They rich could not admit it was the system they uphold and benefit from that gave rise to fascism without endangering their positions.
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I want to invite the “aesthetic horrors” but it’s not “the rich”. It’s just human stupidity and laziness in trying to educate children.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hallöchen.