or spent even a moment wondering why Canada speaks French (Canada is *right there*) 😂

American incuriosity knows, well, all the bounds I guess.

😂

Someone went to school in America, where world history is an optional elective (and at my high school was taught by a football coach, careful not to let the subject matter go over the heads of all the football players taking his class).

World history was still required when/where I was in HS. I raised a kid where it no longer was, and I made sure she learned some world history and US history beyond the pilgrims. I was not going to have her not know that there are other places and ways of being.

I graduated from high school in 1995. The point has been raised elsewhere on the thread that in more recent years curriculums may have changed.

I believe that was my point in talking about having raised a kid to understand the larger world rather than just what she learned in school. That said, a lot of parents don't have that ability for many reasons. My original comment to this thread was facetious, and I graduated a bit before 95.

Yeah, the other conversation I was in was someone younger who grew up with more expansive history classes than I had. And the real problem isn't with kids whose parents want to expand their minds outside school, but with parents who want to ensure their kids don't learn more than they did.

Yeah, I'm in my 50s, and my daughter is now 32.

Even if your just looking at US history, you'd at least learn who Lousiana was bought from.