An Original Thought@lemmy.ml to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · edit-22 days agoTIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homelessen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homelessen.wikipedia.orgAn Original Thought@lemmy.ml to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · edit-22 days agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareAn Original Thought@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoCivic engagement is always good. Some high schools will have some things in the textbooks but class curricula never get that far, preferring to leave off around WWII or the second red scare at latest if they even touch the 1900’s.
minus-squareRebekahWSD@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoWeird. I know we went up to the then current Desert Storm stuff. Well. Almost current. And watched American History X in class. Scarring as it should be. Then I remember that was twenty years ago and get very sad.
minus-squareAn Original Thought@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoIt sounds like your high school was better than most. That’s hope-inducing.
Civic engagement is always good. Some high schools will have some things in the textbooks but class curricula never get that far, preferring to leave off around WWII or the second red scare at latest if they even touch the 1900’s.
Weird. I know we went up to the then current Desert Storm stuff. Well. Almost current. And watched American History X in class.
Scarring as it should be.
Then I remember that was twenty years ago and get very sad.
It sounds like your high school was better than most. That’s hope-inducing.