- cross-posted to:
- todayilearned@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- todayilearned@lemmit.online
In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.
This one needs to be taught in high school history classes
A lot of things aren’t taught that should be.
Shit, if we’re opening the door on Kissinger, we might as well talk about his role in the Chilean coup, Argentina Junta, the bombings of Cambodia and Laos, Bangladesh independence, and more. You know the saying “only the good die young”? There’s a reason he’s 100 years old.
Shit changes so fast we really need History and a separate Recent Events class.
Trying to remember names/dates/places from the Civil War is absolutely pointless when highschool graduates can’t tell you shit about the most recent 20 years.
Ask a few to count different cash denominations at once. I’ve seen college grads fail at it. How can someone that’s been educated not count 1s, 5s, and 10s? Throw in coins and you may see a head explode. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
In 2023 that’s kind of like complaining the kids aren’t learning cursive…
Like, that used to be something people had to do multiple times a day. I carry some “emergency bills” in my wallet just in case, but I can’t remember the last time I actually used cash to buy something at a store.
It’s not about counting the cash, it’s about being able to count using different amounts. Adding them together and being accurate. I don’t care about the money part of my statement. I care that people graduating high school and college aren’t able to what should be simple addition.
Because it’s something they don’t do multiple times a day…
I dont understand how to explain it any simpler
It’s not something I do every day but I was taught how to do simple math and retained it. Again, it’s not the cash I’m concerned with.
Particularly the part where no one was held accountable…
I hardly learned a damn thing in class that happened after 1910.
Yep, we never made it further than WW1 before we just ran out of time in the school year. Some history teachers really tried to blitz through WW2-present in the week or so they usually had left in the school year by that point, some just gave up and put on movies like all the other teachers.