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Originally Posted by dyna mo
the constraints are time and ability. There simply is not enough time in the day to teach kids everything, plus they are new to learning, they couldn't absorb that much information and they don't have the learning skills to process it properly either.
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If someone is important enough to get a national holiday named after him, schools should find the time to tell his entire story.
I took history 5 days a week, 1 hour per day, for 8 years or so. Then in high school I took American history on top of that for 4 years, 5 days a week, 1 hour per day. Hardly anything bad was said about Columbus, the guy is a hero. However, they spent plenty of time teaching us about Mao, Hitler, Castro, and others, and where every single gun was fired during the Civil War, but the truth about Cristobal Colon somehow slipped by. Of course, you can learn about it in college if you go down that road, but it should be taught in every high school.