World History is only from post WW1 to maybe Vietnam. No really, I teach alongside the History department and I see what's on the curriculum. I imagine that the kids are bored af but I don't dare ask. Like does some 13 year old in 2023 need to learn about Stalin and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
since we're still in the post-ww2 world order (though it's increasingly falling apart), i'd say that yes, they need to learn about ww2 and what lead to it.
the problem with teaching about the molotov-ribbentrop pact is that they always make it out to be some singular evil thing, with barely any mention of things like the munich betrayal. and of course no material analysis of what actual options stalin had, when faced with a rabidly anticommunist and uncooperative west and the fucking nazis.
My high school taught that Molotov-Ribbentrop was basically an alliance and an agreement to divide Poland between the USSR and Nazi Germany, two equally evil countries controlled entirely by Hitler and Stalin.
Clearly they should have encouraged parents to have 12 children each while they struggled to modernize their agriculture. Then westerners would never criticize that decision or the consequences of it.
Lmao yeah, it's not like they demonstrate to us every day about how they feel when they see impoverished villages with African families of 8-12 children. Surely they would be more fair :yea:
I wonder how many famines were before 1959 and how many after
World History is only from post WW1 to maybe Vietnam. No really, I teach alongside the History department and I see what's on the curriculum. I imagine that the kids are bored af but I don't dare ask. Like does some 13 year old in 2023 need to learn about Stalin and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
BTW I don't teach History.
since we're still in the post-ww2 world order (though it's increasingly falling apart), i'd say that yes, they need to learn about ww2 and what lead to it.
the problem with teaching about the molotov-ribbentrop pact is that they always make it out to be some singular evil thing, with barely any mention of things like the munich betrayal. and of course no material analysis of what actual options stalin had, when faced with a rabidly anticommunist and uncooperative west and the fucking nazis.
and the fascist poles. and and and.
My high school taught that Molotov-Ribbentrop was basically an alliance and an agreement to divide Poland between the USSR and Nazi Germany, two equally evil countries controlled entirely by Hitler and Stalin.
Clearly they should have encouraged parents to have 12 children each while they struggled to modernize their agriculture. Then westerners would never criticize that decision or the consequences of it.
Lmao yeah, it's not like they demonstrate to us every day about how they feel when they see impoverished villages with African families of 8-12 children. Surely they would be more fair :yea: