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This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
I literally had creationist bullshit in my text books, so I'm thinking this site won't cover everything...
Southern schooled in 80s & 90s, here. They let us believe John Wilkes Booth was a lone actor and not part of an organized plot by southern men to assassinate the president.
The first time one of my northern friends mentioned that bit about a conspiracy, my little naive mind was rocked that schools might bend or bury the truth.
The rest of the list was pretty accurate. Except nurses in schools was a Hollywood myth to me. There was no budget for such positions. We could go to the school office and ask to call our parents if we weren't feeling well, and we'd better be feeling pretty awful.
Just FYI. Thanksgiving is the original blatant Cultural Appropriation. Thanksgiving was one of 13 harvest feast that the Native Americans in the area would hold each year. That's one of the reasons that Canada and The US celebrate it on different days.
We also stole most of their constitution, except the bit about "no law shall be passed that doesn't directly benefit all the children of the next 7 generations."
They had existed relatively stabley for 25,000 years, and we fucked it up, stole what we wanted, and trashed the rest.
Huh the Thanksgiving one I was taught that the Indians were nice to the new arrivals, but within a few short years that niceness was exploited and betrayed.
I guess maybe the welcome feast never occurred? But we certainly were taught the pilgrims drove the Indians out
Class of '89 here, that was pretty spot on.
my 5th grade teacher said kurt cobain died of heroin overdose and not a shotgun to the head
We no longer say "committed suicide" because it's no longer a crime.
Otherwise it's great!
Hey thanks! What's the suggested term instead? This is the first I'm hearing of the term differences so wanna fix it up
Eh, you can commit a lot of acts that aren't crimes.
I'm no expert, just repeating what I've learned in a few suicide prevention classes. Here you can read more if you're interested.
@MiraLazine love this!! any chance you can add a submission box? (With a section for source cited ofc :p). I'm sure there's a bunch out there that people might think of and want to add.
That's a good idea, thanks! I do have an email listed for now but I know not everyone would want to email someone random so I'll look into adding that in a bit
@MiraLazine also there's the possibility -- you may be at risk of getting flooded with submissions :p
Very cool
Pretty accurate. My mom was very much invested in our education and contradicted a lot of this info when I was growing up so I learned the true facts.
I’m very grateful that everything in there got debunked by my high school teachers