Is American history taught at any grade or school any more? Yes, I find it amusing at the answers and non-answers given by many individuals when questioned on television shows; but in a way it is sad that so many know so little about history and government. Yet, they vote.
Many years have passed since I was in school but I seem to remember that we studied American history in most grades of grammar school. In high school we had two years of history.
I don't remember the grade but I recall taking a test that was about the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. There were ten questions and I got them all right and made an A. I showed the test to my parents only to hear my dad say I had two wrong, attributing Patrick Henry's famous words, "Give me Liberty or give me death" to James Otis, who said "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
Imagine my embarrassment when I had to get the teacher to revise my grade to a C.
Many years have passed since I was in school but I seem to remember that we studied American history in most grades of grammar school. In high school we had two years of history.
I don't remember the grade but I recall taking a test that was about the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. There were ten questions and I got them all right and made an A. I showed the test to my parents only to hear my dad say I had two wrong, attributing Patrick Henry's famous words, "Give me Liberty or give me death" to James Otis, who said "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
Imagine my embarrassment when I had to get the teacher to revise my grade to a C.
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