Originally Posted by RizzyKing

My daughter is 18 and my son is 16 and they were taught nothing at all about the second world war during their time in state education, schools attended were welland park secondary, market harborough, leicestershire and robert smyth upper same town. Also none of their friends have any idea either and they attended schools in places like kettering, corby and leicester so forgive me if i am not seeing how this is a major part of history in schools where i live.

Local RBL has taken to giving lectures in local youth clubs to try and raise awareness and understanding of those events for the kids in my area which i think is probably a lot better then soemone reading it who didn't experience it. Those talks have impacted many of the kids as the men telling them their recollections were little older then some of them when they were in the war that seems to have hit home very well.

After asking them last night they didn't just do china they also did the canal system in the UK and how it was built and why but not a single thing on either of the WW's. So if this is a required part of history how the hell is it being ignored seemingly by a number of schools here as surely if it is part of the syllabus they have to teach it or can schools now decide what parts they do or don't teach. .