What is something that isn’t taught at school, but should be?

@BlueVeins A little bit off-topic, but one thing I've noticed, is that history classes tend to neglect stuff that happened like, 20-30 years prior to present day. Like, I never learned about the Persian Gulf war, but I learned about Vietnam.
This leaves a gap in the question of "How did we get here?"
I wonder how many of the kids graduating now learned the full details about the Iraq war.

@DDonde In my experience, public school history classes are just unbelievably shitty. I was never once taught about the Nakba, 1953 Iranian Coup D'Etat, Kashmir Conflict, or WW1 negotiations regarding Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. All of those things are more relevant to this day than the American Revolution, by our education system would rather jack off to George Washington than teach us why the Indians and Pakistanis hate each other. 🙄

@BlueVeins Honestly, it's true about most classes in public school. I've poured a lot of my post-education learning into language learning for example, and I've come to realize that most of the 4-year language classes in High school are basically a waste of time except as a means to at least get some exposure to the fact that other languages exist.

If they were to frame high school education as building a foundation, a framework from which you can build further knowledge [i]after[/i] graduation, then things don't look so bleak. But for some people, that's all they're ever going to know, outside of knowledge they need for work.

It would make rather good sense to teach history chronologically @BlueVeins