FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for May 21, 2012

@Nabuquduriuzhur: I agree with you 100% . I know people who never heard of the Roman Empire and can’t find their own country on a map/

“Most teachers today” have to have a Maaters degree, plus 35- plus extra hours of study per year. Most teachers work more hours per year than people who have a 40-hour work week. You don’t know much about real teachers. The ones I know didn’t spend college in a drunken stupor or in orgies. Any teachers you know like that should have been fired by now.

Yes, the cartoonists know how to push people’s buttons. But sometimes it can be a good thing. Hmm. I didn’t know they made a movie about the wasted brigade in the Balaclava battle. I only know of it by reading history and Tennyson’s poem. Call me strange. …

This is a comic strip, you sad and lonely person.

And just because YOU never knew these things until a teacher beat it into your head doesn’t mean that other teachers don’t know it.Remember, the School Board that YOU elected got to decide what to teach your kids.

I’m pretty sure you would not be able to name even one teacher who has not taken at least one college history class, much less one who has chosen to teach it.

Man, when I was in High School all we had was “History” “US History” and “World History”. Peter’s school board must have a bunch of historians running it!Why is it that I find Wikipedia far more interesting than any textbook I ever had?

I don’t know where you went to school, pal, but my history teachers taught us plenty in school, and I’ve got decent history teachers in college, too.

I always hated history in school. I didn’t start getting interested in it until many years after graduation. They always gave us memorizing dates and wars and treaties and political stuff, never the details of how people actually lived and what life was like in different time periods, which is much more interesting to me. History channel does some of that, but books are better.

Talking to the younger generations, It does not appear that the US schools teach history any more. Which always makes me think of the quotation "he who will not learn from history is doomed to repet it. Thus the mess in Washington.

The stuff of nightmares: I’m in my 60s and still occasionally have dreams about not preparing for a class I’ve signed up for.

Skeeterhawk, you’re strange.(Well, he (or she) asked)

Except for one history class in HS I agree with you, ewalnut. Schools cared so little about history that most of the history teachers were coaches. But I had one teacher, of New Mexico History (my home state), that truly cared about the subject and made the history vital and interesting.

I can’t believe how historians can have access to the most exciting, amazing, inspiring stories of all time and make them uniformly BORING!

Historians, textbooks… as long as the books are 50% footnotes — boring!