The Buckets by Greg Cravens for November 30, 2014
Transcript:
What's all this? Social studies homework, we're doing a section on the news. Whew. Some of your information seems pretty iffy. Did you fact-check all this? Nope. I just wrote the exact opposite of what my project partner wrote. Toby! You can't do that! There are rules and journalism... Journalism? We do journalism in history class, mom. This is social studies. Oh, for heavens sake... That's got to be the... Mom loses mind, wanders off muttering obviously brainwashed by opposing political party.
Is there a distinction drawn in HS today between history and social studies? In my day they were synonymous. I’ll have to ask my friend, the HS history teacher.