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Old 14-01-2010, 12:07   #29
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Re: How to make students even more unpopular
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
While it is easy to condemn i remember only too well having to educate my own children on the second world war and all it entailed so i am not shocked that there is ignorance in the youth of today or a compete lack of understanding on their part how offensive they have been. Personally i blame the education system we have and while i am sure some schools do teach about that era in history my kids were educated on china 1923-1949.

They can tell you all about the kuomintang (however it is spelt) mao tse tung and the great march but know nothing about people like hitler or churchill. They covered the right time period but never touched on absolutely anything about the UK, europe or any of the events that happened in that time period closer to home. As so often with our youth the blame for their actions lies somewhere else and the complete failure of other people to properly educate them.
So, throughout the whole eleven to thirteen years they spent at school all they learned in History is about China between nineteen twenty-three and nineteen forty-nine? Flyboy10 spent two whole terms last year on the second world war. He knows a considerable amount about what happened, including the Holocaust. If these students' have chosen to ignore their history lessons then I am afraid it is entirely of their own doing.

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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
that's news to me ,my 14 yr old has done nothing on either war as far as i know
The second world war is part of the key stage three curriculum, did he not go to junior school?

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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
correction i just asked him and they do both wars and damien is correct it is a major part of the history gcse
Aah, then I withdraw my earlier comment.
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