Originally Posted by
Reeve
I don't really buy the "limited time" argument. I mean I learned about black history every year for 8 years in a row in public schools. We spent a stupid amount of time doing bullshit worksheets with things like word finds on them. We covered manifest destiny and the American migration westward at least five times. We did the industrial revolution at least twice, if you don't count incidental mentions. Admittedly, ancient history tended to speak mostly about the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians to the exclusion of he Persians, but if the school system had deemed the Persians important, we'd have had plenty of time for them too. Yet in spite of all that, we still managed to hit all the highlights of world history and American history. Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Mongols, a little Chinese (not enough), India, the Black Plague, medieval Europe, Venice, DaVinci, English Revolution, French Revolution, the Rennaissance, the Enlightenment, including Hobbes, Locke, and Voltaire, the conquest of the New World, American History, the World Wars, Spanish American War, Vietnam, the Red Scare, etc. etc. we covered all of that, and still had time left over for bullshit word searches and covering the same topic multiple times.
I don't believe history classes are pressed for time, unless they're wasting time on bullshit.