History in high school

I thought Wales was a defunct kingdom of yore for most of my teenage years, absorbed into England at some point. Imagine my surprise when I found it was still around.

>never had a class in european history at any point in my schooling

>took AP History in high school
>class was taught old dairy farmer
>he really disliked my slacker tendencies
>got B or C on tests
>4 on AP exam

I had a great teacher, and we studied general 20th century stuff in year 11 and then I did Revolutions in year 12 (Australian) where you had the choice of studying two of the following revolutions-French, American, Chinese and Russian.

I did Russia and China because the marxist element and doctrine was similar.

One can also do Ancient History,the Renaissance and Australian History (of which there is absolutely nothing interesting to say).

Overall, it was pretty great at the latter end of high school. In the lower levels though it was just 'aboriginal history' and Australian history, which sucked. There is nothing to tell about it.

>aboriginal people are here for an estimated 40,000 years and some of them don't even discover FIRE
>the english use the place as a dumping ground for their worst people
>gold is discovered and a bunch of men live in the dust and gamble their findings away for a few years
>we raise sheep
>england uses australian soldiers as cannon fodder in ww1 (and we celebrate it for some reason)
>japan bombs the fuck out of us in ww2
>we only let white people in for ages
>we then become the go to place for multiculturalism
> our prime minister eats onions and gets up to other shenanigans
>we invent wifi somewhere in there and yet have 3rd world internet speeds

Ignorance isn't a partisan issue you pretentious twat.
>muh liberal arts degree inflated college degree statistics

One of those subjects i would always excell in, mostly because I didn't have to do any work and could lazily ace the tests that had ridiculously low standards.
Don't remember learning a fucking thing.
Government and politics filled me with a bunch of bullshit, but that's what happens when..I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I took AP World and US History and there was no studying required for either to get a 5 and 4 in their respective exams. I remember my essay was rejected for being too long (it was 8 pages) when we had to write biographies on famous ancient Greeks and I was assigned Alexander the Great. Overall there were buzzwords associated with different historical civilizations we had drilled into our brains for the exam but no context provided for much of anything. To this day I remember the Olmecs had giant stone heads and in Vietnam the Trung Trac sisters with their girl power repelled a Chinese invasion thus securing their independence until the French showed up and blew their savage asses the fuck out.

>Teacher hates history anf barely "teaches"
>Gives us assignment and a history book and says it's enough to grade us.
>I help out a few bros with the questions to get my squad them A's.
>Some retard decides to copy straight off me.
>Teacher pulls us in and calls ME the cheater.
>MY HONOUR HAS BEEN TAINTED
>Says won't do anything but threatens to call parents.
>Stare at her
>Hitler-Grade smug
>Opens mouth
>"Do it, and we'll see what happens."
>Get my things and walk out.
>Still get A, rest of squad gets C's n' B's.

this

My AP Euro teacher told us that the Nazis were capitalists.

I pointed out to him that they were not and that they hated capitalism. He said that they were still capitalistic because they used money. I just stopped after that because I didn't want to be an autistic asshole.

There were some other stupidities being taught. Otherwise, it was ok.

I usually spent the lesson ignoring the teacher and reading the textbook by myself.
From the rare times when I listened, I think she was a decent teacher. Not brilliant, but not boring either. She knew her shit at a perfectly appropriate level for teaching to high school student, but no more than that really. This was particularly noticeable when asking questions outside the program, she usually didn't have an answer.
I'm not sure what she thought of me.
On one hand, she seemed to dislike me because I was a fucking ass in high school, I behaved disrespectfully and arrogantly and I was extremely full of myself, and as a result she was somewhat dismissive of me outside of her subject as she seemed to think me too immature to discuss with. As obnoxious as I was tho, I do remember her as very limited, so no big loss there.
On the other hand she was extremely encouraging and supporting of my interest (she suggested and loaned me books and references, and she was my faculty sponsor for my graduation thesis), and she tried to keep her rebukes to a minimum (as long as I bothered answering questions when directly called upon, usually whenever the whole class didn't know the answer). She also gave me 10/10 as final grade for three years straight.
I also had another professor, sadly only for one year, who also taught philosophy. He was an absolute madman and his classes were a blast. He focused a lot on explaining how events were linked and the influence of philosophy, religion and literature in shaping how people thought and how it affected their actions and policies.
He also used to bully students and goad people all the fucking time, and he was vile about it too: verbally abused girlfriends to get boys to react (in his defense I think he just liked sparring out verbally with people and never abused his position to shut people up). I don't think he liked me either, but at least I had a lot of fun insulting him and discussing shit.

Just looked it up and the Trung sisters actually lost and historians until a few decades ago blamed their defeat on the fact they were women. Strange we never actually learned the result of their rebellion just that it happened.

>my essay was rejected for being too long (it was 8 pages)

It's this kind of bullshit that I honestly can't comprehend.

So if one student is obviously showing that he excells at a subject, you tell him to dumb down his work just because you don't want to put in the work to grade his assignments?

This But replace all world history with US history until college and Texas history with WV history, which was mainly fighting over what was basically wage slavery. God knows ho WV isn't a communist heaven.

Actually i had really good luck for teachers. One of them always drew a map of the region we were talking about atm on the board with every little island, every land curve, one hundred percent accurate. I think he was a bit autistic, but so am i. Meanwhile others were drawing hearts or smileys on the edge of their notes, i was drawing accurate maps of countries.

Brother!

Have you grown out of your autism? I have, for the most part. I'm now on the German hate train.
[spoiler]I still play Chetnik songs, they're unironically good.[/spoiler]

The 8 was already dumbed down when I realized at 13 pages I was putting way too much detail in his battles/sieges when they didn't really matter to describe his historical significance except in a throwaway "He was outnumbered in many battles but was never defeated until his soldiers mutinied in India."

Aussie here

It swung between World War One and World War Two in the most basic fucking "there were trenches and shit" way possible, aboriginal realtions and some pointless Aussie folklore.

Year 11 VCE gave us the option of cold war history, which everyone chose in order to escape having to explain the Ferdinand assassination or the Holocaust for the fifth time. Literally everyone became a communist and I couldn't even name a single past Prime Minister afterwards.

I dropped History at this point and focused on math.

The only thing I remember from high school history class was the French Revolution and an hour long presentation about the Ottomans I did.
Also my teacher was a hardcore lefty and her transparent bias made me angry.
Canadian here.

Where do you live?

>noble romans brought civilization to the briton savages
>warrior queen fought fascist roman imperialists
>savage anglo-saxons drove out noble civilized romans
>europeans never had baths and had quack doctors while the islamic golden age was the shit until the crusades ruined it
>you british are fascist colonialist imperialists, the industrial revolution caused poverty and that is all we are going to look at
>meanwhile in the USA they were killing natives and enslaving black people, we won't talk about the 100000s of white men who died to end slavery
>ww1 happened due to nationalism, haha those millions of white men who died were so stupid
>ww2 happened, but we'll focus almost entirely on the rise of hitler and the holocaust
>since this is a period in history that captures the inerest of every schoolboy we will briefly mention the tuskegee airmen, but we will only talk about the racism, not the warfare, because that might bore the girls
>gandhi fought fascist british imperialists
>civil rights movement
I learned more about history from civilization 4.

german here

Beside problem like shitty outdated material
(actually got an Atlas with %Neger population for countries) and disinterested teachers
the biggest problem I noticed was the repetitive choice of topics

Never heard something about ancient greece,ottomans,romans,inka or any other culture besides european in class
we didn´t even talk about the french revolution or communist russia

>muh 3 Reich
>muh Weimarer Republik
>muh middle ages and Popes being stupid

Currently in high school. Only had two actual history classes (in a senior now): AP World History and AP US History. AP World was piss easy, I didn't learn shit and I aced the AP test without really having to do anything. APUSH was boring at the time, but I learned a lot. I think the main problem with the course is that you're presented with people, dates, movements, the economy, or the people, without any of them really being tied together. Often they'll discuss only two of the above elements together when really everything needs to be tied together to get the full picture. We also only saw outside the US when the US was at war, which is a really huge failing. In order to understand our movements, we must look at their historical antecedents in other countries. It has a spirit-crushing amount of work as well.

Samefag here.

The problem with history at our school, and probably 90% of other schools in the country, was that the topics we learnt were focused on morals and not on history, or were not particularly irrelevant to our country. For example, we learnt in the final years of school:

>the Western Front in WWI
>the rise of Hitler
>the Holocaust
>the Cuban Missile Crisis
>Black Civil Rights Movement

If I studied history at school and that was the end of it, I would know more about 1920s/30s Germany than about my own country. The less I say about the other topics the better.

>learn who invented peanut butter every February for 12 years

American public education is about patting each other on the back.

Pretty boring, except my american history honors class, that was wonderful. Good teacher, interesting subject matter, and a class that actually knew when to shut the fuck up.

I had a fantastic APUSH teacher. Bleeding heart liberal, but was confident enough to put the truth above all else. Yeah, it's a lot of detail studying each and every president throughout the entire semester, but man do you learn a lot (M U G W U M P S)

The driest part was reading Founding Brothers the summer before class began.

>>gandhi fought fascist british imperialists
thats true you fucking retard.

I don't think user is saying it's incorrect. He's probably referring to history in schools being dominated by a PC agenda.

Don't go to a 4 year school, I'm saving you money and brain cells

>Grade 3: Mythology and bits of ancient history
>Grade 4: Minoan until 146 BC, bits of Egypt
>Grade 5: bits of Roman empire, a shitload of eastern Roman empire, a whole garbage dump of byzantium
>Grade 6: Greece under Ottomans, Independent Greece, maybe a month of Europe
>Grade 7: same as 4 but more detail
>Grade 8: same as 5 but more detail
>Grade 9: same as 6 but more detail
>Grade 10: same as 7 but more detail
>Grade 11: same as 8 but more detail
>Grade 12: same as 9 but more detail
95% of it was literally "when did this happen, who was X? for NINE FUCKING YEARS. Maybe they did a better overall job in the humanities direction but that was only for the last 2 grades. As far as I know it was "when did this happen : hell on earth mode"

Guess the country and win a 2 centimeter dildo!!

I would guess Greece... Hold the Greek sized dildo.

i just want to die

>Grade 6, Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome
>Grade 7, Colonial America through Civil War (except we were behind schedule and didn't really get to the civil war)
>Grade 8, WW1 through Korean War
>Grades 9, 10 and 11 go through the same fucking cycle as 6, 7 and 8, respectively.
Same fucking information twice over, didn't remember any of it once the tests were done, huge waste of time. For one thing, the way it's taught, they don't really do a good job of depicting them as humans. History isn't really interesting until you are able to see people in history as humans who, despite changes in culture n shit, have had all the same basic desires and fears, all the same basic components, the whole time.

Absolute Shite. Teacher cared more about the fucking AP test and test taking "strategies" more than actual history.

Then what were they. Inb4 Socialism

One billion kajilion white men died because they were conscripted. The butthurt is real.

t. Unemployed bum at a library

My history teachers from middle school on were phenomenal. I learned about everything from Mesopotamia to ancient China, The Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil war, WW1(though honestly never seemed to spend much time or detail on it), a lot of WW2, only in junior/senior year did I get any in depth study on Vietnam, and a little less on everything post nam. Not bad to me, especially considering how little teachers are paid, and how terrible a lot of the kids are.
> t. 'Murica

Quite alright actually, went through most of the european and some world history
>1st year - prehistory, middle eastern civs, greeks, romans
>2nd year - migration era, byzantium/ere, feudalism, colonisation
>3rd year - absolutism, french, american revs, 1848 & nationalism, germany, italy
>4th year - ww1, interwar, ww2, cold war

Actually I'm working full time while going to community college for my last semester, while living in my own making house payments on the house I bought with 20k in equity as is

I just meant that you shouldn't go straight from high school to big college. Go to community college where you pay $150 a credit, get your gen eds out of the way. Then if you take classes in your field and you decide you don't like it, you're only out a couple thousand as opposed to tens of thousands. It's also nice in case you start taking your core classes and decide that the major isn't what you thought it was (happened to me), and you can just cut your losses and move on to something else for MUCH cheaper

Community Colleges are the best-kept secret in America right now, capitalize on it while they're still dirt cheap

Pic related is some work I've done on the inside of the house, fixed up my bathroom

My teacher had no training as history teacher so she didn't know shit about anything we were being taught about and couldn't answer any questions.

She told me I would "never pass history" and I ended up having two journal credits so it worked out in the end.

I think my aptitude for history was mostly born out of spite for her.