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Old 01-01-2010, 11:16 PM #26
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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.
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Yeah lol
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haha,omg, Like Jedward?
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haha,omg, Like Jedward?
Yeah like Jedward
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, we did 'Black people in America' what the hell has it got to do with us?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.

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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.
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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
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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.....
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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
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