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Originally Posted by Elli
The centralization of the American education curriculum has always annoyed me. I met a Florida friend's children (aged 11 and 9) and showed them my road map of the States and Canada and asked them to find Canada. They couldn't. I mean, there's only two countries there! Arg!
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Just to illustrate, we had to be able to draw the map of Africa with all the states without any help in our geography lessons...