For example, I'm Australian and I wasn't taught about slavery or genocide of our native people in high school. Hell, I was taught that the Stolen generation was a misnomer and children were only taken voluntarily or as an act of mercy... I graduated in 2008 so it wasn't exactly the dark ages. Referring to the planned exterminations of the natives as "battles" and "conflicts" at best was another one. they didn't even mention the shit that went down in Tasmania.

it's not just the dumb stuff like food pyramids and taste zones, even in schools today history is being glossed over

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m also a 2000s Australian high schooler and we had a notorious lack of Australian history taught to us. My school preferred to teach us the histories of pretty much every other country but our own. We didn’t learn a single thing about indigenous history at all, bad or good.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

And then we struggle to understand the divide between the yes/no vote on The Voice.

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I had a history teacher in (US) high school who was not afraid at all to tell his students the whole truth about stuff like this. Its too bad he was the only one not allowed to teach government classes.