Originally Posted By: OldBaldGuy
'...send your public-school-educated 12-year-old to Europe to continue his/her education. Your child will be so far behind that he/she will probably never catch up..."

Or to Japan. Sad, but true....


Yeah, but in Japan, they will not learn about any of the things they did in China or Korea during WWII - total whitewash

What bugs me in history at my daughters school - she can tell you all about Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, MLK, etc - but she had NO idea who Grant or Sherman, or Ike were!

Spent about 3-4 nights correcting THOSE oversights - and periodically go over the eras in history that the school is supposidly teaching.

Teaching her about the Civil war was 'interesting' because I got to pull out copies of her Great-Great-Great-Grandfather's letters home from the war (He was a battlefield surgeon for the Union side) (I think I got the right number of Great's in there)
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