YOUR HISTORY TEACHER NEVER TOLD YOU- *me, checks lecture notes* I definitely told you. YOUR TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT- Me: It is on page 37 and again on 54. HISTORIANS NEVER ADMIT- Me: Look will you just admit already that you slept through class?

I had an awful college professor once tell the class how American students never learn about slave rebellions and when I pointed out I had learned about Nat Turner in eighth grade he sputtered about how I must’ve gone to some progressive high school (I didn’t)

And also did not read the course handbook section on how to submit your essay, when it will be due, and how to reference correctly.

Had similar from a French tutee last week: "Oh, we were never taught days of the week."

You clearly didn’t teach in FL Public Schools in the 90s because I was paying attention and they DEFINITELY skipped some important stuff (like the Ocoee Massacre)

I’m absolutely sure there are so many relevant things they never told us—e.g., we never learned about the Navajo being death marched and turned into slaves in history class. I would have remembered! And there were Navajo kids in my class.

Me when people complain about schools not teaching media literacy: "you mean English class???"

While there are obviously curriculum differences in different places, my favourite is when folks in my very small town try to pull this. Like, Karen, I was in the same classes as you every year in high school. They did teach us xyz, you just didn’t pay attention.

When I taught history, my main takeaway was: how does anyone ever comprehensively cover these topics? I'm expected to do World History from 5000 BC to roughly 1970? In a 45 min class? With 15 year olds?

Crazzzyyyyy 😂