history lessons in germany(is it just as dumb in other countries too?)

Gee. The way we were taught was the Germans got upset cuz the french always made fun of the german men wearing frilly dresses and pranced around in the fields while the women, although very gruff, were handy with tools and could pull a mean plow. All the while beeing lead by a jewish hobbit named Hitler. Ha ha. Im kidding. I dont rea?ly remember what we were taught. I'm french living in a german community and all I ever get reminded of is the Maginot Line. I'm sure you learned about that. We were too busy drinking wine n eating bon bons.

Well, At Least Your Hobbit Was A Badass (And A Hypocrite)

Majority of what I know has been accumulated long after school. We certainly didn't dwell on the French Revolution or the German Union. Elizabethan Seamen (I said seamen) and Roman Britain was what me mainly covered for exams/projects.

Well My Point Was That The Top Caption Was The Interresting Stuff That We Bearly Touched On And The Lower One Is The Boring Stuff That Streched Like Bubblegum. So We Didn't Dwell On It Either

[image deleted]i went to school in the us and they didn't even mention ww1. i had to read about it when i was out of school

Thats Confusing: You Need To Know About Ww1 To Understand WW2, How did they not teach you!?

i don't know your feelings on this so please understand i'm not trying to argue.

the answer is part of a different problem which lies in teachers unions specifically tenure. if there are no consequences for your actions what is the incentive to do a good job? when i was in school i watched a teacher pound a kid's head into his desk repeatedly (the kid, about 12 years old, asked for help on an grammar question), ram a kid into a locker until he laid on the ground crying (he was about 14 years old), and i had a teacher on my lunch tell me he was going to "take you to the parking lot and teach you a special lesson".. my offence was talking to my friends at lunch about a model bridge we had to build for the next class. i was 14. as much as i don't want to admit it i have more examples. none of those teachers faced any disciplinary actions (all of the teachers were tenured) and in some cases the student got in trouble (the kid rammed into the locker got a 1 day suspension for it)

so i said that to say this.. since ww2 is more popular in the u.s. than ww1 and teachers, in general, find it more interesting.. they will teach what they want to teach.

please don't get the wrong idea i had good teachers too. most teachers were there to get their paycheck. they weren't good or bad they were just there. it's the bad ones that formed my opinion that teaching children is too important to have tenure. (i'm still on the fence on if teachers should have a union at all and i'm not anti-union)

Wow... Just Wow... At Least That Awnsers My Question... But Still Just Wow!

you seem to be school age (i'm guessing teens) so i want to add this. if you are in a student exchange program headed to america or your parents have to move here for work don't worry too much. i want to stress that those were only my experiences and every school in america is not like that. it was also in the 90's and time does change things for better or worse.

1.i just got out of school, 2.that is good to know, at least something nice.

oh and 3. my mom doesn't speak english so moving to the U.S. is out of the question anyway