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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by soperj on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:32PM (#19100215)
Where did you go to school? Mine (Victoria - Social Studies) was a joke. Literally the same Canadian history lessons over and over, they didn't even get into anything recent, nothing past the second world war.
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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by danbolt on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:59PM (#19101526)
Victoria as well!

I agree that the Canadian history post-1945 wasn’t emphasized enough; it should have been the center-focus. I had a good teacher in the eleventh grade that vocationally extended the curriculum to include things like economic and social issues, but they were a rare one. Honestly, if they spent as much time on The Quiet Revolution or Western Alienation as WWI, I think young British Columbians would be much better off.

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by stereographic on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:31AM (#19105056)
In Nova Scotia, surprisingly our Canadian History classes did focus mainly on post-1945 Canada in the later years of our education (Highschool).

Pre-highschool Canadian history was extensively focused on pre-1945 events and pretty focused around Eastern/Acadian history

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by soperj on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:38PM (#19102149)
I definitely don't blame my gr.11 teacher, he was an awesome, abet very strange dude. I don't know when you graded, but the curriculum that I had was bad. At least they could have gone into what the BNA acts meant.
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