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[The Ghost of RubangB]

Soleron said:

wfz said:

 
I just thought of something. Why the hell do they call it Social Studies until you get into High School, and then call it History from there on out? This is how it is in the USA at least. Why the hell not just call it History for all school years?

 

Social Studies = Geography + History + Some RE.

I went to an American primary elementary school in Texas and they used the combined subject to sideline Geography (I could name more U.S. states than anyone else in my class despite the fact they were American and I was Foreign.) and teach about the Alamo over and over for three years. And how the "Indians" deserved to be killed. And probably some Founding Fathers. No world history. No proper Geography. Just The Alamo and Davy Crockett's Last Stand. I'm glad I missed American high school...

 

Holy hell.  That's gotta be a Texas thing.  I went to a private Catholic high school in California, and the history wasn't half that bad.  I mean, it was still American, so we ignored all the horrors and invasions and bombings America's been responsible for, and skipped geography, but we didn't say anybody DESERVED anything, or waste time on the Alamo and Davy Crockett.  It was like "blah blah blah, Louisiana Purchase, the Gold Rush, Monroe Doctrine, blah blah blah."

Huh, I guess it was crap, now that I think of it.  Still not as bad as Texas though.  Damn.