In ~10th grade public school a buddy told me “You know this all like complete BS right? Like this is not what happened, it’s just a propaganda version of events” and I thought he was just a conspiracy nut.
But uuuuuuuh nope! Public school US history curriculum is basically just propaganda.
The AP courses weren’t as bad when I was in. Of course the closer you got to modern day it did get skewed more. Learned a lot of accurate history on Jim Crow, the civil war, and reconstruction. The revolution and civil rights movement were probably the least accurate.
Of course these classes had to teach for the AP tests designed by an independent national board not by the state government
The realization that US history requirements for education subtlely strips the political situation from the history felt like a revelation
In ~10th grade public school a buddy told me “You know this all like complete BS right? Like this is not what happened, it’s just a propaganda version of events” and I thought he was just a conspiracy nut.
But uuuuuuuh nope! Public school US history curriculum is basically just propaganda.
The AP courses weren’t as bad when I was in. Of course the closer you got to modern day it did get skewed more. Learned a lot of accurate history on Jim Crow, the civil war, and reconstruction. The revolution and civil rights movement were probably the least accurate.
Of course these classes had to teach for the AP tests designed by an independent national board not by the state government