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In reply to the discussion: Study: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is [View all]CrispyQ
(36,460 posts)52. Standardized testing.
The GOP has focused on filling positions in Boards of Education since the 1980s. They had a long term strategy & it's paying off.
And sports. This country is sports crazed. It's obscene how much many universities pay their sports coaches. And even at a high school level sports is often emphasized/supported more than academics.
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Study: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is [View all]
blondebanshee
Apr 2019
OP
Even if they don't teach it in school, where is the intellectual curiosity to learn it on one's own.
EffieBlack
Apr 2019
#27
"Sixty-six percent of Millennials and 41 percent of adults" Um, every Millennial is an adult.
Cuthbert Allgood
Apr 2019
#10
Like the US should have classes on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Apr 2019
#56
I agree. We do have to understand the past to move forward in the future.
Captain Stern
Apr 2019
#49
Technically that's true...but her and her ilk have been with us in one form or another
Volaris
Apr 2019
#44
You don't know where you are going if you don't know where you have been.
redstatebluegirl
Apr 2019
#51