Nothing much happened before 1877 anyway

North Carolina considers putting high school history classes on fast forward.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6997068/

 

Most of the damn history classes I had never got beyond the Civil War. It's not as though they don't teach that stuff in any other year in school.

 

Terrible idea.

 

I heard about this from a Facebook status of a friend of mine. He's actually a senior in high school in Ohio.

He and I both think it's one of the dumbest things we've heard in a while. For me, it's right up there with Kansas public schools teaching intelligent design.

 

Unbefuckinglievable.

 

I didn't know ESPN execs were on the state Department of Public Instruction.

 

I was surprised to learn that they already start at 1789. That's troublesome too, although pre-Colonial and Colonial-era history was always a drag on what was otherwise my favorite subject.

The concept itself isn't bad. They just need an earlier class to cover what happens pre-1877.

 

Seriously, how many times do kids need to learn that George Washington was the father of the country and that Abe Lincoln freed the slaves?

The damn White House press secretary didn't know what the Bay of Pigs invasion was. And she's young enough that I think that points to a slight flaw in the presentation of history curricula.

 

Only North Carolina could be this stupid.

Congratulations ... this will undoubtedly reinforce the belief that the South is still in denial of slavery and that the Civil War was never lost.

Good freaking grief ...

 

Fixed...

 

Currently in a graduate class called ... American History Since 1877.

 

I hate you. I was coming on here to make an ESPN crack.

Oh well, well done, genius.