Is My 14-Year-Old’s Knowledge Gap Really ‘Normal’?

No, they teach modified history cause we had our 10th grader ask if the holocaust was real. But I figured after covid no books to bring home a year after covid, not allowed to bring home a school computer to finish homework. I'm almost positive that they are not teaching history as it was so we don't make the mistakes of the past but a very modified version that the left wants them to learn.

the bar is lowered. Our education system is crap. Many countries overseas the kids spend way way way more time in school. The US IS SO FAR BEHIND IT IS NOT FUNNY. AND WHOS GONNA SUFFER????? THE KIDS ARE.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We raised 2 boys who are now in their late 30s and now have grandchildren in high school and middle school. Our boys had what I consider to be an excellent secondary education in public school and some amazing teachers. It's been a bit of a shock and unsettling to witness the lack of what we consider to be general knowledge in our grandchildren though they are top students. History, civics and geography as well as critical thinking are the biggest gaps. My wife and I each have multiple degrees in both science and the humanities and our children and their wives opted to not attend college which is the same for most of their friends and families and friends so any of our stated observations about education are seemingly viewed as coming from highly educated baby boomers who don't understand and are intolerant of "the way things are now". Our one granddaughter is highly intelligent and curious and, despite being on an advanced track, often declares that she is bored by school.

yes here I. tn they no longer have spelling words nor do they teach shapes we need to change the learning curriculum who goes to school n doesn't learn to count money wtf

The school system doesn't have American History? Kid probably couldn't pass the citizenship test given to immigrants. It includes a question on State and Federal capitals.