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Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe
I found my public education to be rather devoid of the "true history" of a lot of things. Not the Native American genocide, black civil rights, the suffragist movement, the chicano civil rights movement, the LGBT movement, Vietnam, WWII... Hell, I hadn't even heard about some of those until I started my college education.
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I find that
really really hard to believe. MLK day has been around your
entire life, and you expect us to believe that
not one teacher in 12+ years mentioned why there was a holiday.
Of course, maybe I assume too much. You didn't say that none of those things had been taught, just that you hadn't heard them.