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MrLevinstein · 06-06-2003, 08:01 PM

[quote="Cpt. Zapotoski":a419b]Stryker, you also have to think about what the teachers are told to teach. My 11th grade History teacher loves WWII and Vietnam, but he couldn't mention a few battles because the Board of Education requires him to touch on so many subjects in our history in so little time. Sure, he'd most likely go through ever major battle and explain what took place... but he didn't have the time to accomplish that.

See, we take a test called the "Regents" in NY state. The History Regents has a set curriculum and my history teacher has that. So it would be useless to teach kids about "Battle of the Buldge" when they really don't need to know about it. And again, he has not allot of time to teach what "needs" to be teached.[/quote:a419b]

I am in accelerated 9th grade world history... We only basically learn about European,Middle Eastern and Chinese civilizations. We talked about African and South American civilizations for a combined 2 days. They just cover whats on the regents they dont have any time for other things.

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MrLevinstein is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,670 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Outskirts of Rochester, Ny	06-06-2003, 08:01 PM [quote="Cpt. Zapotoski":a419b]Stryker, you also have to think about what the teachers are told to teach. My 11th grade History teacher loves WWII and Vietnam, but he couldn't mention a few battles because the Board of Education requires him to touch on so many subjects in our history in so little time. Sure, he'd most likely go through ever major battle and explain what took place... but he didn't have the time to accomplish that. See, we take a test called the "Regents" in NY state. The History Regents has a set curriculum and my history teacher has that. So it would be useless to teach kids about "Battle of the Buldge" when they really don't need to know about it. And again, he has not allot of time to teach what "needs" to be teached.[/quote:a419b] I am in accelerated 9th grade world history... We only basically learn about European,Middle Eastern and Chinese civilizations. We talked about African and South American civilizations for a combined 2 days. They just cover whats on the regents they dont have any time for other things.