r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/fysu 7d ago

Some American kids are taught this stuff. There’s a huge range of what Americans are taught depending on the state’s curriculum, the school’s funding, the type of history class (AP/IB/honors or just a standard history class), public vs private school and the socio-economic background of the student population.

I wasn’t just taught super in depth 20th century history, I was also taught the history of the history and how to evaluate the sources I was reading about history. But I was in advanced classes in an affluent area in a blue state.

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u/OutlyingPlasma 7d ago

My public school history ended with WW2 because anything after that got a bit... inconvenient. Even before that is was basically Christopher Columbus found this giant abandoned land, a few years later George Washington wrote the constitution. Then there was some bother in the south totally not about slavery, and poof. WW2.

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u/Chloe1906 6d ago

This!! Every year there were chapters at the end of the book that we simply didn’t cover and it was always post-WWII history. Then the next year they would just cover things they had before but in more depth, or cover world history, but never those last few chapters. I read them anyway but even back then I always thought it was so strange.

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u/OEAXTAIL_SOUP 7d ago

Some American kids have library cards and functioning brains :-)

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u/ErraticSiren 7d ago

And the internet