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1969 baby posted:My World Book encyclopedias taught me about the Caucasoids, the Negroids, and the Mongoloids. Wait, there were two more of these songs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDl_R8Zp2E
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I guess the most ridiculous was how our school books (early 90's Quebec) would tell us how the natives were a bunch of savages who were completely worthless until some european dudes came along, burned their villages and hosed their women.
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May 1, 2019 22:29
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The french language book had a page where it was talking about pharmacies and had a picture captioned "the boy is buying medecine" which was a teenager clearly buying a pack of marlboro reds
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May 1, 2019 22:54
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My American history textbook in college literally didn't mention the Korean War.
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May 1, 2019 22:54
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I only took high school Canadian history but the books were painting a weirdly nationalistic image of Canadian army, especially circa WW2  At least they didn't shy away from mentioning all the state sanctioned kidnappings of native children and teaching them how to be good Catholics by pedopriests and literal concentration camps for various groups of people during world wars.
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May 1, 2019 23:15
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We had a health text book that had all the classic anti-drug scare stuff along with "Your dick gonna melt off" STD scare stuff. It wasn't abstinence only sex ed but it was still big on scaremongering, but as usual these textbooks turned me into a big rear end ho dabbling in drogas. Categorically useless as usual. The funny thing is that I took sex ed in Elementary school, the kind where your parents have to sign off permission in like fourth or fifth grade. The irony is that my Elementary school sex ed was just extremely objective "This is penis, this is vagina, these are the parts they have and this is how babies are made." with zero asides to gonorrhea giving you a rotten dang dick. The highschool crap was startlingly worthless. Our teacher asked us to pick a topic from the class and write a paper about it, he was the gym teacher as well so he clearly did not care about anything in the class as gym teachers are wont to do. I picked cocaine and wrote a paper about Pablo Escobar and got an A. All in all it was a poo poo class with a textbook of grotesque images of people suffering due to their sex acts.
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May 1, 2019 23:27
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There was this police officer at our high school that would come into your class to present a big board with samples of various drugs on it. I think he was trying to scare us away from drugs but drat was it exciting to be so close to an actual bag of coke at 14 (whether it really was coke, etc. or not is moot). Couldn't wait to get close to it again without some annoying cop standing in the way! edit: Turns out that loving fascist was right, drugs are bad. 
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Inept posted:don't worry history teachers still don't cover past ww2 because they're all football coaches who don't give a poo poo past when US was good guys lol when was the last time you were in high school, guy with an 03' reg date
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:we used the Ven Conmigo spanish books and there was one guy who appeared over and over, shaking his fist at things. his car's open hood, the radio he was laying next to on a picnic blanket. i hope that dude has made peace with machines. We would occasionally watch short videos that I guess the school got with our Ven Conmigo textbooks and they all seemed to feature a kid named Paco. One day when we were about to start one up a girl asked if it would be another Paco video and for some reason our Spanish teacher just angrily snapped at her "It is ALWAYS Paco!".
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I took a home economics class in high school, and there was a passage in the textbook explaining what life in a communist country is like for some reason. Apparently you're not allowed to pick where you go on vacation and you have to do early morning group workouts instead of relaxing and having fun. This was in 2008, and the book had to have been from the mid 80s or earlier.
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That slavery is normal and good OP (Ecce Romani  )
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Pastry of the Year posted:hell yeah, DEUTSCH AKTUELL 1 There was one completely amazing one from India that used the usual generic kid characters and also incredibly unlicensed comic book characters side by side so you'd get example dialogue like little Monika asking Asterix for his phone number and Dracula butts in to say he doesn't have a phone. Yeah like fuckin' Asterix does.
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Barudak posted:The french language book had a page where it was talking about pharmacies and had a picture captioned "the boy is buying medecine" which was a teenager clearly buying a pack of marlboro reds Man that's a good way to advertise
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I grew up in a socialist country so our German textbook dealt with the life experiences of Eastern Germans. One of the lessons was about hobbies and claimed that collecting empty cigarette packs was one of the more popular ones. Other lessons dealt with teenagers having fun (getting drunk on cheap DDR made rum) and doctor Lohmann making house visits in Magdeburg Nord (the worst looking brutalist mass housing development in the entire Eastern block)
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Canadian textbooks when I was younger tended to miss out on some of the more subtle aspects of John a macdonald such as "genocide enthusiast" and "incredible alcoholic"
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May 2, 2019 12:39
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feedmegin posted:That slavery is normal and good OP I grew up to run a logging business so I could destroy every possible tree girls can read under.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:in Magdeburg Nord (the worst looking brutalist mass housing development in the entire Eastern block) And that's saying something!
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The_Franz posted:The German textbooks we had in high school were so old they still talked about the GDR and DDR separately despite the wall having been down for double digit years. Much like other antiquated language books they were filled with the kinds of weird conversations that nobody ever has. Things along the line of: This is every language course textbook from 1960 to 2009
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Bronze Fonz posted:There was this police officer at our high school that would come into your class to present a big board with samples of various drugs on it. They had "Officer Friendly" come to school, tell us how great police are, and give us stickers in the 70s. No drug boards. lol
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Glass is a slow moving liquid which is why windows are thicker at there base
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May 2, 2019 13:56
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"The South seceded over concerns over unbridled federalism." I mean, it's partially right, I guess, but ignores the whole "the right we think should be decided on a state-by-state basis is the right to own slaves"
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May 2, 2019 22:06
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And that also ignores that the Confederate constitution forbids any Confederate States from abolishing slavery.
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May 2, 2019 23:00
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I guess we had decent text books because I don't remember anything interesting aside from our classroom maps in the mid-90's still having the USSR on them.
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May 2, 2019 23:22
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All Gaul is divided into 3 parts.
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May 2, 2019 23:31
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Had an ancient textbook that wanted to revisit the "Liberia Solution"
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I don't really remember much about my textbooks, but I can tell you that most of the ones I had in my classroom until we switched to electronic copies were filled with detailed drawings of dicks and bongs.
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The textbook for AP US History was written by a very frustrated creative writing major. "Seemingly the farmer had only to tickle the soil with a hoe and it would laugh with a harvest"
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:We had a health text book that had all the classic anti-drug scare stuff along with "Your dick gonna melt off" STD scare stuff.
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Growing up in California we spent an awful lot of time learning how the native Indians and Spanish priests worked together in the missions to...poo poo..I don't know? All I know is that the nice Spaniards helped out the Indians, and they really appreciated it. We taught them to be civilized and they taught us how to make baskets filled with water and hot rocks to boil your acorns in, so they didn't taste bad. Something like that. Also the only method to avoid getting her pregnant and to avoid dick sores was abstinence. All that other poo poo never worked and condoms were a joke made from the thinnest tissue paper. The Dregs fucked around with this message at 19:21 on May 3, 2019 |
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Scott Lame posted:All Gaul is divided into 3 parts. Don't knock primary sources.
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The perfidious Native may transform into a large spirit eagle as a trauma response. Just open the nearest window and stand quietly in the corner to allow them time to deescalate or escape.
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feedmegin posted:That slavery is normal and good OP we spent an entire semester with the carriage stuck in the ditch because they didn't want to give us any more scenery vocabulary in book 1.
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Mammal Sauce posted:I don't really remember much about my textbooks, but I can tell you that most of the ones I had in my classroom until we switched to electronic copies were filled with detailed drawings of dicks and bongs. Whoever had the book the year before me had had penis-in-vagina sex with Jolene, which made me sad because I had a crush on Jolene 
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coronatae posted:The textbook for AP US History was written by a very frustrated creative writing major.
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My college Spanish professor made his own textbook and sold it through the university press for like $12 which was pretty dope. In all the example dialogue there was one character who was always just getting poo poo on by life, Rigoberto lost his homework, his dog died, he didn't get invited to the party... I always felt bad for Rigoberto.
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I remember after several years of revolutionary war, civil war, WW2 history classes I asked the teacher if we were ever going to cover like, any other country in the world's history ever and was straight up told no. also I recall a teacher holding up a 3 and a half floppy and telling the class this is a Hard Disk, because it has this hard plastic outside, you see.
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I remember in 2nd grade we read a book about how in the future there would be colonies on the moon. Also there were people with green skin that didn't have to eat because they used photosynthesis, and people with red skin that got their energy from the sun or something. I can't remember if they were aliens or people that evolved or something but they were all kids in the same 2nd grade classroom on the moon
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Grape posted:I guess we had decent text books because I don't remember anything interesting aside from our classroom maps in the mid-90's still having the USSR on them. Same. I was in high school when Nunavut became a territory and my dad got his hands on some big new maps showing it off through work somehow and presented them to my school, which I’m sure was much appreciated.
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Chemistry teacher used a modified version of drug cooking in order to get the kids to learn. Spanish teacher also did a hood mod to her curriculum to get kids involved. High school was loving weird 😒
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Cephalectomy posted:i lived in rural illinois and our textbooks did not cover any event past ww2 except to say things happened and we came out on top somehow? Were you in the Peoria area because I also had this experience
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