What to teach the kids

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When I was 15 there was a change in government that moved the ministry of education from a progressive-socialist party control to a religious party control, and the first thing they did was to institute a program change in history class- not even waiting for the end of the year.

Within one month they required us to get new books and switched our entire curriculum from one that was focused more on international world wide history throughout the modern era to one was centered locally.

All of a sudden we did study the holocaust, but no longer studied the rest of ww2 - as if the world war was something that happened just to us. We studied the Israeli wars a lot more then before, but no longer included writings from multiple perspectives or got the critique included. The rise of nationalism and communism was already covered but removed from the test and no longer covered for classes after ours, and anything that was further then that - like east Asia - was no longer touched at all.

With the same pool of time and resources as before both set ups had information the other one lacked. But it was interesting to get see the difference, and how completely different something can be framed given the information it is set adjacent too - and perhaps more importantly - the information missing.