American PUBLIC schools suck NOW (mostly since Bush II, when they really ramped up their attacks). Private American schools for rich kids do not suck, and public schools didn’t used to suck.
This is all by design, to be clear.
I’m sixty, I got a decent public school education, and I was taught about “The Troubles” while they were happening. I was also taught about the horrors of The Holocaust by a history teacher who lived through the war. My eighth-grade English teacher was a WWII vet, and he had some stories.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I think it varies from school to school based on what they think is important, but I wanna say that I learned about it in high school years ago. Of course, I also grew up in an area with a lot of Irish immigrants and descendants of Irish immigrants who were very supportive of the IRA. To the point of arms deals with the IRA being a thing with organized crime in the area. So I might know of it simply from living in Whitey Bulger country.