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Subject: Re: Forgotten anniversaries

Author:
Boyd Percy

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Date Posted: 18:34:02 05/22/15 Fri
In reply to: K Pelle aka dotB 's message, "Re: Forgotten anniversaries" on 19:50:07 05/21/15 Thu

>
>>For instance, here in the USA, American History is the
>>concentration. How much history of Thailand or
>>Russian Georgia is taught here? Not much, if any at
>>all. How much American History is taught in those and
>>other countries, much less Michigan specific, or that
>>of Chicago or Peru, Indiana? (That's "PEEE-Roo" by the
>>way, not pronounced there like the country in South
>>America.)
>>
>
>Hmm, I think this article says a lot about most of the
>educational system in the USA;
> >href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/one-third-of-amer
>ican-8th-graders-think-canada-is-a-dictatorship-1.30822
>39">http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/one-third-of-americ
>an-8th-graders-think-canada-is-a-dictatorship-1.3082239
>
>
>I read that and was stunned at the results.
>
>kp

I'm not surprised at all. I daresay that many middle and high school students in the U.S. probably have no idea where Canada is located.

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Mikey
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Date Posted: 11:37:41 07/01/15 Wed

>Hmm, I think this article says a lot about most of the
>educational system in the USA;
> >href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/one-third-of-amer
>ican-8th-graders-think-canada-is-a-dictatorship-1.30822
>39">http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/one-third-of-americ
>an-8th-graders-think-canada-is-a-dictatorship-1.3082239
>
>
>I read that and was stunned at the results.
>
>kp

Likewise.
My dad grew up in Canada and had a number of
interesting stories about his teenage years
in Toronto.

>I'm not surprised at all. I daresay that
>many middle and high school students in
>the U.S. probably have no idea where
>Canada is located.

True.
The teachers teach the exit exams and no
more than they have to.

After getting my amateur radio license I learned
a lot of world Geography ... because I had an
interest in doing so.
Every station is assigned a callsign by their
local radio authority. You are identified by
that callsign when on the air.
Anyway, one winter morning I asked the teacher
where Samoa was, as I'd talked to a radio
operator there the previous night - but it
was daytime and summer for him. The teacher
accused me of lying (she'd never heard of
ham radio) and sent me to the principal.
Fortunately the principal's uncle had been
a ham and had a clue.
The end result was that the teacher got
an education (what a concept!), and I
learned where Samoa was.