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Weeks like this are a reminder of the structural weakness that America has because we have substandard public education on current events which puts news media in the unfortunate position of having to inform then contextualize stories that really require more than 3 minutes
911 could have been a fundamental turning point in American education. For all the screaming about STEM education, 911 should've galvanized local school boards to increase focus on world history, geography and history. Instead we doubled down on Mid-East bad, America good
Americans know about as much about #Afghanistan today as they did 20 years ago and yet everyone wants to point fingers about who failed when and how. Our media & elected officials can't be moved to smarter policy when the public is not educated about anything north of Maine
