dekedangle_rpfanon | #23 — Brown Goes Down

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No, definitely not. I went to some shit public schools and basic American geography was definitely taught. Multiple times. People retain different things, but it's not something you can blame on schooling lol.

It sounds more like a mental quirk, like my inability to tell the names Amanda, Allison, and Britney apart.

Huh, really? I went to some relatively good public schools and the last time I remember geography being taught was in the fourth grade. After that there was plenty of history, which required a certain knowledge of geography to make sense, but not really any teaching of geography.

Then again, I've been out of the education system for a while now, so it could be one of those education standards that's completely changed since then.

NA

My schools were so-so and no US geography after eighth grade unless you took the elective. The only non-US geography I ever got was Central American in Spanish class, and I learned my European capitals from Carmen Sandiego in the '80s (so guess how out of date half of them are now).

That said, I can locate all 50 states and also know the capitals, because it interested me/my dad and I have a good memory. On the other hand there are FIFTY of them and while I expect people to know the obvious-shaped ones around the edges (California, Texas, Florida, NY, etc) and have a general idea of the region they're in, I don't think it's that weird people can't identify a lot of them.

The square and rectangle ones are difficult, okay. The really obvious shaped ones should be easy.

Tbh when I was younger I used to be really snotty about knowing all the states, and then I got older and realized there are SO many of them, and knowing exactly where they are isn't exactly relevant most of the time (it's usually ok to swap Mississippi and Alabama, or not know the tiny ones) and I chilled out about it. Plus there's all kinds of shit I can't keep in my head either, so...

DA

Weird. I went to a fairly shitty rural school (bad enough that parents will pay to send their children to a different school district) and we had World Geography my sophomore year where we focused on US/North American geography for a good third of the semester.

SA

I graduated five years ago, though, so this was fairly recent.

da

There are vast disparities in public education in the US, both in terms of different state standards and curricula, as well as how strong individual schools are in certain subject areas. There is really no way to say any subject area or topic is "typical" of US public education. I had linear algebra at my public high school, but other areas that I'm sure were severely lacking compared to other schools.

omg America is SO DIVERSE. *mic drop*

*eyeroll*

I mean, in the context of a conversation where people are expressing surprise that not everyone in the US had the same public education experience they did... ???

da

It's a fail_fandomanon joke, related to past wanks there.

Well, keep that shit there. We don't need help in production on that front.

na

Do you mean like you graphed lines, or like linear algebra with matrices?

ayrt

Linear algebra with matrices.

ayrt

Color me impressed!

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