An Original Thought@lemmy.ml to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · edit-21 month agoTIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homelessen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square58linkfedilinkarrow-up1370arrow-down12
arrow-up1368arrow-down1external-linkTIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homelessen.wikipedia.orgAn Original Thought@lemmy.ml to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · edit-21 month agomessage-square58linkfedilink
minus-squareRebekahWSD@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoSo they no longer teach recent history? Sucks. I think I’m now at an age where I can go terrorize a school board. My mother will be delighted!
minus-squarejupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoI never learned about the Tulsa race massacre, and I live in state. I was much older when I learned about it.
minus-squareAn Original Thought@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoCivic engagement is always good. Some high schools will have some things in the textbooks but class curricula never get that far, preferring to leave off around WWII or the second red scare at latest if they even touch the 1900’s.
minus-squareRebekahWSD@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoWeird. I know we went up to the then current Desert Storm stuff. Well. Almost current. And watched American History X in class. Scarring as it should be. Then I remember that was twenty years ago and get very sad.
minus-squareAn Original Thought@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoIt sounds like your high school was better than most. That’s hope-inducing.
So they no longer teach recent history? Sucks. I think I’m now at an age where I can go terrorize a school board. My mother will be delighted!
I never learned about the Tulsa race massacre, and I live in state. I was much older when I learned about it.
Civic engagement is always good. Some high schools will have some things in the textbooks but class curricula never get that far, preferring to leave off around WWII or the second red scare at latest if they even touch the 1900’s.
Weird. I know we went up to the then current Desert Storm stuff. Well. Almost current. And watched American History X in class.
Scarring as it should be.
Then I remember that was twenty years ago and get very sad.
It sounds like your high school was better than most. That’s hope-inducing.