it makes absolutely no sense to shame middle school kids for not knowing “major events” in US history. the whole point is they have to learn! and for what it’s worth, this kind of shaming makes it *less likely* that kids want to learn history in the first place.
https://twitter.com/jamie2181/status/1363531120432861188
you’re really having a hard time believing that an 11-year-old could not know who Hitler was? that makes total sense to me, especially sinc WWII isn’t an overwhelming part of pop culture the way it was when i was a kid in the late 1990s.
https://twitter.com/lukekvas/status/1363892603473719299
like, the second world war was everywhere in 1998/1999/2000,/2001 from movies like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN to television shows like BAND OF BROTHERS to video games like MEDAL OF HONOR
right, this is all to say nothing of the fact that WWII veterans were still alive and part of public life
https://twitter.com/compoundsplural/status/1363904651347787776
i’m pretty sure i knew a bunch about the second world war in middle school, but again, pop culture was saturated with the stuff, my parents were in the military, and i lived in a military town. kind of hard not to in that environment!
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