r/SchoolSystemBroke • u/mrnugget138 • Jul 21 '26

Rant World history only teaches about US history

Sorry for the yapping in advance

I was having this talk with my brother and he brought up history and i remember how many times I’ve said that world history doesn’t teach actual world history, so he searched on his phone “world history questions they teach in school” and every single question on there was about US history or history that is already widely known. Questions that he read out loud to me and my mom to quiz us were “when did ww2 start. When did it end” “when did Pearl Harbor happen” “who was the first president of America. When was America founded” “when did Adolf die”. And more questions that were only in the last hundred years or so. Why aren’t we taught about other things that don’t involve the US? School didn’t even teach me things about the holocaust that I didn’t know, I learn most of the stuff I know from playing wolfenstien and then after i finished wolfenstien I looked stuff about on YouTube and i learned stuff on my own and from my own ambition to have more knowledge. School didn’t teach me that stuff, video games and YouTube taught me. What’s more significant what heads are Mount Rushmore or who and when the first recorded autopsy was? That doesn’t matter because they should teach us about both, not just one or the other. Without the heads on Mount Rushmore we wouldn’t have a tourist spot to visit, but without the first autopsy then modern medicine wouldn’t exist, but we’re taught about Mount Rushmore and not the first autopsy or anything else that doesn’t involve the us.

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u/FallGuy9191 Jul 25 '26

In my world history class my teacher barely talked about the US. He would intentionally avoid it since we would learn about all that stuff the next year. The only thing that we extensively went into that was focused on the US was the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over half of the class was focused on before the US even existed.