Oct 9, 2026, 10:40 PM@irene @drwho @DeliaChristina @gwenverbsnouns sorry to break it to you but I have not found that any grade school curriculum in the USA covers the geography, let alone the history of any other country in any depth. The inward focus of their education system is an abomination imho.
@Rickd6 @irene @drwho @DeliaChristina that's pretty true. there's some in world history for the part of the Western world which predates the US, but other than that we really only cover international events and places when the US is directly involved (and even that is through a heavily nationalistic lense)
probably the closest we get is in language classes, but it's still pretty shallow. like memorizing national capitols in south america for a spanish class
@gwenverbsnouns @Rickd6 @drwho @DeliaChristina in fourth grade, we memorized all the provinces/states and capitals of Canada and Mexico and all the countries and capitals of the other continents. Not sure how that was useful though ..
Oct 12, 2026, 3:15 PM@DeliaChristina @irene @gwenverbsnouns @drwho it wasn’t really but was easy to test. Knowing the people, the life circumstances or anything relatable is more difficult to test, but much more useful to life. Education as a business is simplistic rhetoric and memorizing.
Oct 12, 2026, 5:03 PM@Rickd6 @DeliaChristina @irene @gwenverbsnouns Especially if you're being educated to fulfill a specific role in a specific kind of environment.
Oct 13, 2026, 1:33 PM@drwho @DeliaChristina @irene @gwenverbsnouns that’s called job training not education- and should be fully funded by corporations not government.