Wow, you learned about the Watts Riots in school? Where was that? My US history class (AP, in high school) stopped at the end of World War II, with a footnote about this Cold War thing that happened because both the US and USSR had nuclear weapons and didn't like each other. There was one chapter in the textbook that covered 1946 until sometime in the 1980s, but nobody read it because that material wasn't on the exam. Heck, I've been wondering when schools were going to start teaching about McCarthyism and the Vietnam War....
(Off-topic, but I really am glad to know that a school somewhere taught about history that happened less than 50 years earlier.)
Thanks for the comment. I had some conversations with my workmates and people around me that really opened my eyes the last few days.
I always loved and respected my history teacher. I, in fact, gave the speech when she was honored with the "Teacher of the Year" for our district. But I never realized exactly how good she was until the last couple of days.
I bet you never covered Gulf of Tonkins incident and looked at actual news reports at the time compared to the things that came out later did you?
There are other examples of how the teachers were different in my school that makes me wonder exactly how Ft. Collins High got to do all the stuff it did.
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(Off-topic, but I really am glad to know that a school somewhere taught about history that happened less than 50 years earlier.)
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I always loved and respected my history teacher. I, in fact, gave the speech when she was honored with the "Teacher of the Year" for our district. But I never realized exactly how good she was until the last couple of days.
I bet you never covered Gulf of Tonkins incident and looked at actual news reports at the time compared to the things that came out later did you?
There are other examples of how the teachers were different in my school that makes me wonder exactly how Ft. Collins High got to do all the stuff it did.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/11/ukriots.accused/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
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