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It should be noted that American schools teach plenty of revisionist history or gloss over the worst excesses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/opinion/how-texas-teaches...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-lat...

https://jezebel.com/heres-how-new-texas-public-school-textbo...

not just America. growing up in Canada, exactly 0 minutes were dedicated to discussing treatment of First Nations peoples...noteworthy given that government's exceptionally awful history in that regard

Huh. I went to public school in Ontario between 1987 and 2000 and all I ever learned about first nations people was how shitty they were treated. It was so often the point of our geography and canadian history lessons that I feel like the only thing I know about Canada's history is that they treated first nations poorly. It was so heavily reenforced that a lot of my schoolmates got empathy fatigue.

Where and when did you go to school in Canada?

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