When teaching math the teacher teaches little bits of factual information and teaches more and more as time goes on. Teachers start out with the easy stuff but then when time goes on and you get older it gets harder and more advanced but the whole time you are still learning information that is just facts. Science is the same case, so why isn’t history? History is what shapes a kid’s mind about the world. From day one it affects a person’s view on their country and their opinions on the problems of the world. If it is so important why do people teach so many different versions of it, sugar coating certain past events and having bias towards others. Some things I was taught as a kid I have now realized were not true or exaggerated and it is a slap in the face every time I find out something that I thought I knew was not actually true. I believe that history should be taught the same way as math and science, starting off with small facts and then getting onto the harder stuff as the kid gets older putting the people teaching it opinions aside.

      In 2020 12% of American adults say that they have never heard of the Hallowcaust, something you think would be taught in any middle school history class. That statistic and many others show how problematic the education system is dealing with history and the fact that 1 in 8 Americans do not know a basic chunk of history should be concerning to most people. So many people do not know about this big injustice in the world and that shows how flawed the teaching of history is in America.

      Another flaw with schools teaching of history is how they talk about slavery. According to the Washington Post, history textbooks do not talk about how brutal slavery really was and basically glance over it. One book even referred to them as workers instead of slaves. Although slavery is a very sensitive subject kids deserve to know the truth about slavery it order to fully understand what their ansestors went through.

      There is no basic Social Studies curriculum in the United States making it so certain states do not teach as much as others, so a student’s education on subjects tends to vary. According to a poll done by CBS 8 states do not even teach about the civil rights movements and only 2 states talk about the issue of white supremacy. Those statistics are honestly disrespectful because not teaching students about all the things people in the black community had to go through is quite ignorant. Students need to learn about these things in order to have a better understanding of social issues in the United States and black history should be a thing all schools are required to teach about.

      Although some may argue that always teaching what really happened in history might be too much for kids, I disagree because you could teach it like a teacher teaches math, starting off with the easier basic stuff and by the time the kid gets older you move on to the harder stuff and at the point they will basically be an adult and I guarantee almost all kids have seen just as graphic stuff as the teachers might teach through forms of media.

      Overall the way history is taught in America is very flawed and a lot of the time kids are not being taught true history, only bits and pieces of it. I believe that history needs to have a more established curriculum and taught the way math is, teaching more and more as time goes on. I think that kids deserve to know the real truth of all the stuff their ancestors went through because that will affect their opinions on the United States and how they view the world.