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thsismiet
4 years ago

Real talk, as a teacher in England I can confirm that the British government does everything and anything to avoid teaching the true extent of colonial history to English kids. 

You ask a modern English teenager about Northern Ireland and they probably can’t tell you about fucking anything currently going on there bar ‘I think we weren’t nice to them’, and that’s the country next fucking door so you know they don’t know shit about India or the Middle East.

The English government PURPOSEFULLY does not teach English children the real in’s and out’s of the British Empire despite a recent call to ‘widen the breadth of our curriculum’ because then where would our football hooligans who defend statues come from? 

Have a good conversation with any bald headed English bloke wearing an England football shirt with an EDL tattoo and test his knowledge of the Empire he loves so much. 100 quid he knows fuck all beyond ‘we civilized those people!’

And this is why no one fucking likes us, because there’s no active effort to teach our younger generations why we were wrong or how to make things better, but there’s a clear educational agenda to shield young English children from any extensive criticism of England.

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its bullshittt and is not like they dont have the time i get maybe its a sensitive subject for y1-6 or w/e like ok but 7-9 is still *three years* of mandatory history education how long did i spend learning about ww1/2 where teachers gratutiously praise the uk for fighting in the war instead of the actual atrocities of it we should learn about history so we dont repeat past mistakes not learn about history so we can glorify war the fact that we dont learn about our history of colonialism and atrocities to said colonies that still affect people today and instead focus on the war of the roses or some shit like i get it! its history! and its important but save it for those taking history optionally like a levels or uni for mandatory history teach students what they should know so we have less patriotic assholes flying about the flag whining that the empire wasnt as bad as people say and assholes yearning for the good old days or some such bullshit lmao im ranting too much but my point still stands my years of history education were so shit when they *should* have been one of the most important subjects given englands awful past anyways shutting up now
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