Should we have lessons about whats going on in the world?

[Ninastar]

I mean in school. I have never been taught about the war or how it started or other peoples beliefs and things like that in school. Some of you might have but none of the schools in my area have been.
I think it should be, because its probably one of the biggest things going on in the world. I don't think alot of people unders stand alot of it, me being one of them.

Having saying that, more and more people from other countries in the world are coming to live here and it wouldnt be right to talk about it. People see everything differently so it could end up badly anyway.


Sorry if I'm not really making sense with that, or it sounds really stupid.

[InOne]

Luckily I learnt quite alot about what was going on and what has happened in school. Anything else I looked up.

[Ninastar]

Another thing is that people always watch the news or read newspapers which can lie or pursuade people to think the wrong things.

[ILoveTRW]

no but we should have lesson about whats going on in the real world

[Lewis.]

I totally agree Caitlin. If it wasn't for my own personal research I wouldn't know what the hell is going on in the world today

[Stacey.]

I do get taught that sort of - i think :conf:
i dont know what we get taught in school really. :laugh2:
but i do think we should get more education on it .

[Novo]

There is already a subject like this

it's called History

[Beastie]

Yeah could learn it in your PSE lesson.

[Smithy]

as stupid as it sounds id like to have learnt UK geo
we did through all of primary school and the first half of secndry foreign geo until a couple years ago i had no idea where birmingham was

[Shaun]

no but we should have lesson about whats going on in the real world

even as a joke suggestion that's really ****ing boring.

[Ninastar]

There is already a subject like this

it's called History

In history at my school you learn about how bad ass hitler was and about the hastings and ****.

[Stacey.]

In history at my school you learn about how bad ass hitler was and about the hastings and ****.

how old are ya Caitlin ??

[Ninastar]

how old are ya Caitlin ??

16 lol.

I havent done history for like 2 years.

[Stacey.]

16 lol.

I havent done history for like 2 years.

aw, cool!!!
You act and look older :p Lmao

oh,so you didnt take it as an option?
i didnt take it - :sleep: lol

[Ninastar]

aw, cool!!!
You act and look older :p Lmao

oh,so you didnt take it as an option?
i didnt take it - :sleep: lol

I just thought it wouldnt do me good in the future. I wanted to take it though. I dont know much about history at all so it would have been nce to learn.

[Harry!]

I do History as a GCSE but it would be besst if we covered more recent events rather then stuff like The American West. They need to teach us things like 9/11 which is recent and relates to our culture now.

[Beastie]

I do History as a GCSE but it would be besst if we covered more recent events rather then stuff like The American West. They need to teach us things like 9/11 which is recent and relates to our culture now.

Yeah or about events which have happened in the past 100 years.

[Patrick]

Agree, usually our History teacher would go off topic and talk about somthing thats happening in the world and then he soon realises hes wasting time, and goes back to Irish History.

So I think it would be really good if we had a subject on what goes on about the world, it would be helpful.

[Stacey.]

Agree, usually our History teacher would go off topic and talk about somthing thats happening in the world and then he soon realises hes wasting time, and goes back to Irish History.

So I think it would be really good if we had a subject on what goes on about the world, it would be helpful.

omg Youre irish?!
;);););)

[Harry!]

Yeah or about events which have happened in the past 100 years.

We have done WW2 and the Holocaust last year. Plus JFK assasination and Vietnam War (soon).

We just need to be taught about the last decade though.

[Beastie]

I had boring teachers for History when I was at school.

[Beastie]

We have done WW2 and the Holocaust last year. Plus JFK assasination and Vietnam War (soon).

We just need to be taught about the last decade though.

Oh I was not really taught about recent events or events in the last 100 years when I was at school. It was usually like the battle of hastings.

Although I do remember going to a museum about the Holocaust.

[Stacey.]

my history lessons were last year .
I cant remember what we did, not even one lesson :laugh2:

[Jords]

I dropped history after year 9, found it boring, was quite good at it though.

[Beastie]

I dropped it after year 9 as well and I think in my final exam I got like 53 or 57%. Okay that is so sad how I memorise that :S I could never copy off the person next to me because I could never read her **** miniscule handwriting! lol

[Patrick]

omg Youre irish?!
;);););)

Yeah lol

[Harry!]

Oh I was not really taught about recent events or events in the last 100 years when I was at school. It was usually like the battle of hastings.

Although I do remember going to a museum about the Holocaust.

Oh I see. We also have Citizenship days where we talk about social issues but they never really talk about war , mostly they talk about colleges and sex.

[Stacey.]

Yeah lol

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh :wink::wink:
:D haha,omg, Like Jedward? :shocked:

[Patrick]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh :wink::wink:
:D haha,omg, Like Jedward? :shocked:

:joker: Yeah like Jedward

[Stacey.]

:joker: Yeah like Jedward

:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:
I want to meet you someday :wink:
i LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE irish accents!!!!!!!!!!!!! :elephant::elephant:
:lovedup:

[Beastie]

Oh I see. We also have Citizenship days where we talk about social issues but they never really talk about war , mostly they talk about colleges and sex.

I remember in PSE we talked about sex and stuff lol. I think I only had PSE until year 9 but that lesson was allright.

[Jords]

I remember in PSE we talked about sex and stuff lol. I think I only had PSE until year 9 but that lesson was allright.

Ah we had 'Escape Skills' once every 2 weeks in year 7, it was about: using IT skills, career paths, sex and drugs and a hint on why people do certain things type of scenerios. and war.

[Patrick]

:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shoc ked:
I want to meet you someday :wink:
i LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE irish accents!!!!!!!!!!!!! :elephant::elephant:
:lovedup:

Lol Thanks :thumbs:

[BB_Eye]

Not sure about current affairs, but I think history lessons in general need an overhaul. There was a lot of focus at my school on both world wars (which is fine), but far too much focus on American history which (apart from the Great Depression) had relatively little importance to us compared to, say, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic wars and the history of the British Empire and its various crimes.

[InOne]

Yeah, we did 'Black people in America' what the hell has it got to do with us?

[Princess]

In history at my school you learn about how bad ass hitler was and about the hastings and ****.

We learned feck loads of Irish History here,like half my Leaving Cert course was Irish History,it was SOOO boring. We did stuff about 'what's happening in the world' in CSPE and then in later years in stuff like RE and sometimes English.

[Jords]

I used to love history in primary, when it was about tudors, egyptians and that, ancient history sort of thing. And I used to hate geography, because it was just about 'people in different countries'. But now in secondoray school I loveee geography and cant stand history because its mainly about war and thats all, which doesnt really interest me.

[Captain.Remy]

History, Geography and Economics are generally good at that. Well, that's how it is in France so I don't know in UK how it works.
I've learnt a lot from these lessons but don't get focussed on what school teaches you: read serious daily magazines (not The Sun or Heatworld...), watch the news, search on the Internet. You'll learn more from there than in school.

[Vladimir]

no but we should have lesson about whats going on in the real world

:joker::joker::joker:

[NettoSuperstar!]

Yeh we should so we can try and stop making the same mistakes over and over and over and over...like a monkey with a minature symbol!

[Stu]

All schools should have classes on popular culture and politics past and present, but it will never happen. Why would government want to arm people with the knowledge to realise how messed up the world they are running is?

Your only hope in this world is to start reading and to read a lot. Kids who don't start reading are essentialy missing out on countless worlds of thought and alternative ideaology that would never have occured to them.

Wikipedia helps, but meh. Schools job is to destroy creative thought and to bracket and label everything into logical, easy to digest sections to prepare you for the mundanity of the working world and conforming to a job you don't like. I know we all have to make paper but some people are basically trapped in an institution for their entire lives. Those sorts who then don't ever think just use the television as a source of entertainment to balance out the tedium of there lives, more mind numbing, and the cycle goes on and on and on.

The bell defines school really. The bell rings and no matter what you get up, walk to a certain spot, and wait for the next bell.

[WOMBAI]

Lessons in understanding that z-listers aren't celebrities and are definitely not important people would be good. Even proper celebs aren't any more important than anyone else. A good title for such lessons might be 'Priorities'. Ha,ha.

[NettoSuperstar!]

All schools should have classes on popular culture and politics past and present, but it will never happen. Why would government want to arm people with the knowledge to realise how messed up the world they are running is?

Your only hope in this world is to start reading and to read a lot. Kids who don't start reading are essentialy missing out on countless worlds of thought and alternative ideaology that would never have occured to them.

Wikipedia helps, but meh. Schools job is to destroy creative thought and to bracket and label everything into logical, easy to digest sections to prepare you for the mundanity of the working world and conforming to a job you don't like. I know we all have to make paper but some people are basically trapped in an institution for their entire lives. Those sorts who then don't ever think just use the television as a source of entertainment to balance out the tedium of there lives, more mind numbing, and the cycle goes on and on and on.

The bell defines school really. The bell rings and no matter what you get up, walk to a certain spot, and wait for the next bell.

Aye too true

[bananarama]

I mean in school. I have never been taught about the war or how it started or other peoples beliefs and things like that in school. Some of you might have but none of the schools in my area have been.
I think it should be, because its probably one of the biggest things going on in the world. I don't think alot of people unders stand alot of it, me being one of them.

Having saying that, more and more people from other countries in the world are coming to live here and it wouldnt be right to talk about it. People see everything differently so it could end up badly anyway.


Sorry if I'm not really making sense with that, or it sounds really stupid.


Interesting!!!!!! When I was at school a long long time ago we had a class called "Current affairs" in which subjects you mention would have been talked about and children informed.......Are you saying no such type lesson exists in modern schooling ??? If so it is a disgrace.....

[Tom]

Yeah, we did 'Black people in America' what the hell has it got to do with us?

Because its world history and not UK history