Can you tell me the significance of 1066? What about Julius
Caesar crossing the Rubicon? Can you name any English King besides Henry VIII? Have you heard the word Plantagenet before, much less know what it means? If you answered yes to any or all those questions, a.) You are awesome and b.) You probably know 10x more history than the average kid in my school and maybe in America. I know people who can't even name the first President of the United States much less any of my first questions. Anyone who knows anything about history and lives in New York like I do should think the History Regents an absolute joke. When it is taught, it is not in a way that engages students (a bunch of bullett points on a slide, nothing exciting) and is a bunch of p.c. revisionist rubbish. This of course can be extended to all subjects; I am mad about this as well, but history holds a special place in my heart and I feel it suffers the most because it is the one that is thought to be least helpful to the real world. What do you guys think?
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