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   sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:33:52 JST sidereal

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   • joesabin

   @joesabin @emilygorcenski By contrast, we didn't learn much about the civil rights movement when I was in elementary/middle school (in the 90's) because it was "too recent"

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     @sidereal @emilygorcenski

     I've heard that. Vietnam War was barely mentioned and only a footnote as I've learned from others in your cohort.

     By now people think Civil, Voting, Womens' rights are all just part of the mix and unfortunately giving them up as we go. Yet they were all fought for during my lifetime.

     Certainly, my education wasn't perfect by any stretch, but far more complete in its breadth than what happens now.

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     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski When I compare the education I got in the 1960s to 1974 when I graduated HS to what is taught today, it most certainly is in a shambles. In grade school, we learned about current events and how it was shaping our society. The riots after MLK Jr. was assassinated were all covered. We learned about Jim Crow and the post-reconstruction South. We have dismantled that and given it away to private schools via vouchers and whiney parents who don't want their kids to learn the truth.