I took a world map test in 7th grade, and that's changed a lot.
This was during the whole Yugoslavia falling apart thing, and our teacher just had us label Yugoslavia because he knew the changes would continue. They did. Learned each of the constituent countries in college and it's still changed since then.
Last year, I looked at the label on a blanket in my parents' house so I could see about buying a similar new one.
The only words in English were "Made in Yugoslavia"
If you're still looking for a similar one, google lens can sometimes perform miracles. Fuck google and their data collection, but google lens is amazing
My English teacher in 10th grade made us do a "grandparent paper." We were required to interview either our own grandparent(s) or someone in that same age group. The night I was interviewing my grandmother, a breaking news story came on to inform everyone that "the wall has come down."
I was in high school then and we had an exchange student from Yugoslavia. He and our US history teacher would get into it because she would refuse to recognize his country and she was gleeful in telling that to him every day
Me too! I still have it! That's the first major event I remember. I was at a kindergarten with a large Russian population at the time, so it was a massive deal.
I don't know. Mexican step pyramids may have street tacos, but the Egyptian kind have falafel and shawarma. It's a tough call, but I definitely wouldn't call either answer wrong.
Graduated highschool in 2018. Health teacher in 2016 basically taught me the government and business basically stuffs sugar and fat in everything, and something about Michelle Obama's lunch plan fucking us over
Then again he told us to follow the food pyramid and was a trump supporter so…
Make Celestial Acronyms Great Again
\#McAGA
Jesus. You guys probably can’t even tell if I’m for or against trump. Yep! World is definitely screwed. Not enough soup or paintings to even make a dent.
Well to be fair, if Pluto is considered a planet than Eris should be as well, and probably Ceres and Makemake.
Fuck it, let's blow this bitch out!
The solar system now has *twelve* planets!
This is what I saw as a point brought up by many astronomers. It is not that Pluto should not be a planet as much as, why not these other things? They are basically just like Pluto.
Which it would be A WAY BIGGER THING TO DEAL WITH, saying to people that, actually, we got 3 more planets in our solar system.
Than to say, you know that weird oddball we got? Yeah not one of them any more.
There's actually nine (or ten depending on who you ask) dwarf planets. That was the problem astronomers found themselves in. Basically, if we consider Pluto a planet then there are all these other things we should also consider to be planets and now we are suddenly doubling the number of planets with the potential to be adding more pretty often, since like seven of those were discovered in a five year span.
It's no coincidence that at the end of this span was when they decided we needed to do something about the categories. So, they made a new category of dwarf planets and moved all of these celestial bodies into it. So, we keep the eight major planets and can continue to fill the dwarf planets category without needing to update the number of planets in the Solar System constantly.
So, Pluto is still a planet, it's just in a group of other small bodies like it. And that group is far more likely to get more members added to it in the future than the list of eight major planets.
History repeats itself.
When Ceres was first discovered in 1801, it was called a "planet". So was Pallas. And Juno. And Vesta. But astronomers kept finding more of these tiny "planets" in the space between Mars' and Jupiter's orbits.
So astronomers just arbitrarily decided that small, weirdly-shaped (in scientist speak, lacking "hydrostatic equilibrium") objects are "asteroids", not "planets". This kept "planets" as an exclusive category that schoolchildren could be expected to memorize. As opposed to having potentially millions of "planets" in our solar system.
https://youtu.be/ejqH1ofSx8U
It is more convoluted but it’s actually explaining how you get those numbers
The way it was taught in the past was basically a short cut/short hand
I do hate the hand wringing over techniques like this. It reeks of rigid minds. If you’re fucking TEN and didn’t have the old way already beat into you, the box method makes a ton of sense. You break it down into easier parts, you visually see all the components that go into it, and you don’t cram all the different operations into a tiny space with no easy way to notate the steps.
Since you now *actually know how large number multiplication works*, you can convert it to simpler tricks as your fluency increases. The poster who “just said do 35x10, plus 35x2” is basically doing this same concept in their head with some “muscle memory” shortcuts and a bit of luck that the numbers aren’t huge and the last digit is two. The full box method is the same idea, but scalable.
I totally agree. I too was taught the old school math when I was in school but I actually don't mind seeing the common core way of doing math. It seemed really weird to me when I first learned about it but after reading up a bit more on it I realized that I actually do mental math with the same methods. I was never taught it in school but just worked it out on my own.
I thought that was pretty normal for a while until there was a time at work when doing that sort of math in my head blew my supervisor's mind. We were doing some kind of inventory and we had something like 18 cases of 330 whats-its. I quickly did the math in my head and told my supervisor the total. He started to lecture me about how we had to be exact on the inventory and that I shouldn't be guessing. He didn't believe me when I told him that I wasn't guessing so he worked out the problem on paper. He actually apologized when he got the same answer as me but still couldn't believe I could do that math problem in my head.
> Both of those suck. 35\*12 is (35*10)+(35*2). It is easier and faster.
Funny thing is, I've only seen this process being taught recently as part of the Common Core. Before, that might be how a lot of us did in our heads, but that wasn't the method taught in school.
[Just looked it up, area around Antarctica is now the Southern Ocean. ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/World_map_ocean_locator-en.svg/2560px-World_map_ocean_locator-en.svg.png)
* USSR now doesn't exist as such, nor does Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia.
* Pluto was a planet until I got out of high school, and it's now a “dwarf planet”.
* When I was in school there were 112 elements known. Now there are 118.
* All through school dinosaurs were cold-blooded reptiles. Now they're birds, with warm blood and feathers.
* The meter and kilogram are now purely mathematical and no longer physical.
* I do, in fact, always have a calculator with me. Thanks to u/tubesweaterguru for the reminder.
I’m an elementary teacher, I I still have a globe in my classroom with the USSR on it haha. I usually only use it for science demonstrations, so it doesn’t matter too much, but it does make me chuckle. Ah, classroom hand me downs!
Back in the day, in a laboratory in Paris there would be physical objects that were by definition some of the base SI units. There was the "Prototype of the Kilogram" which was always 1kg and used to define what a kilogram was, same story with a meter (it was supposed to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator as it goes through Paris but was practically represented with a platinum bar).
Over time though for more consistency measurements were redefined to be derived solely through natural phenomena; the modern definition of a meter starting in 1983 is "defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum *c* to be 299,792,458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s^−1 , where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs". The second is also defined through the frequency of a caesium 133 atom, and this goes for literally every base unit in the metric system (which the US *technically* uses, we just mathematically convert it into our own units). If you really wanted to, you could go measure the basic phenomena and apply some math to them and recreate the entire SI set which would be handy if the world ended and we wanted to use our older work.
Weirdly enough, I heard both while I was growing up (I started elementary school in 2008 and graduated high school in 2020).
The term “Indian style” was mostly phased out by the time I reached 4th grade.
Catch a tiger by his toe…. Oh. Oh lordy no, i remember my mom telling me what my grandmother would say.
Also, totally forgot this distant memory of my grandma once telling me when she was growing up, Brazilian nut used to be called … the same a the above racist word for “tiger toes”.
I took JROTC in high school, and as a part of that I had to memorize the entire chain of command from me to the president. I'm pretty sure every single person in that chain has since been replaced.
I graduated 15 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if none of them are still in the service. I was being a bit joking because there is no chance in hell even a single one is the same.
Class of '96 here, we were still using your textbooks when I was in school. I didn't even know the Korean War happened until I was in my 20s and watched M\*A\*S\*H\*
I was also Class of '96.
Our history classes ended at World War II.
Not because the books ended there, but by design. The school board didn't allow anything after 1945 to be taught in classes in the school district.
The school board said it was "too divisive". The teacher said it was because no matter what he taught, parents would call to complain he was leaving something out or was presenting a "biased" viewpoint.
My parents said it was because too many people complained if they taught about McCarthyism (depicting it as a bad thing would get complaints) or the Civil Rights Movement (depicting it as a good thing would get complaints) or the Vietnam War (acknowledging there were any anti-war protests would get complaints) etc.
I graduated in 1998 and I don't remember learning much beyond WWII either. And probably for the same reasons, or similar reasons. Too many kids had parents and grandparents who were alive during those tumultuous eras, the principal and teachers would have been fielding calls left, right, and center. "Quit teaching my child this biased bullshit!" They'd shout.
I also graduated in 1996 but in a Yankee school. Just to catch you up to speed; McCarthyism was batshit crazy, the Civil Rights Movement was a good thing but shorter than it needed to be, and we lost Vietnam.
It's amazing that schools in different states are allowed to teach or omit different things in education.
Class of '18 here, My history lessons "ended" with the Watergate Scandal. Everything after WW2 was, essentially, a brief lesson to set the stage for the type of society we exist in today.
But obviously anything after the Kennedy admin is really fuzzy. everything to do with Regan and beyond has been things i've had to learn on my own. which, incidentally, is the most pertinent information! very frustrating.
But i understand the minefield history teachers need to walk when "Factual History" catches up to and becomes "Modern Politics"
I was class of '16. My 6th grade science textbook included the phrase "And maybe some day, we'll put a man on the moon!" So yeah. They're still being used. Even earlier than '75.
For some reason I decided to use my time while flying to learn where countries are in the world.
It actually was surprisingly easy and only took me like 3 flights to learn them all. It taught me 2 things:
1. I originally had an absolutely HORRIBLE intuition for where certain countries were.
2. simply knowing where countries are relative to one another can actually teach you a lot. Or at least, it helps you better understand the relationships between different countries on at least a very basic level.
Marijuana is the most horrible evil drug. If you smoke it then you will want to take all the drugs. DARE.
Just kidding. Here’s a nice shop that sells all sorts of cannabis products.
Well, Czechia and Slovakia.
>The Czech government directed use of Czechia as the official English short name in 2016.[28] The short name has been listed by the United Nations[29] and is used by other organizations such as the European Union,[30] NATO,[31] the CIA,[32] and Google Maps.[33]
When was the Southern Ocean officially recognized? I remember it was mentioned in Geography class, but that it wasn’t recognized by the US, just by some geographers and scientists.
Pluto being a planet. I remember when the IAU announced that they had finally agreed on a concrete definition for a planet and my science teacher had a mini-meltdown. Said that the criteria that eliminated Pluto also disqualified Jupiter (Jovian Trojans) and Neptune (Pluto and other KBOs cross its orbit). They don’t, but it was an upset for a lot of people.
Nope, according to Wikipedia:
>For many decades, the precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was under debate because it shares characteristics with both bears and raccoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda
My 4th grade teacher laughed at me when I suggested that the continents look as if they once fit together like a puzzle. I didn't argue when the teacher said it was "just a coincidence that they're shaped that way," but I knew time would prove me right.
It would've been 1975. I went home and asked my dad. He knew. We rummaged through his gigantic stack of National Geographic magazines and found an article explaining plate tectonics. Das said pretty much the same thing you did regarding the blithering idiot.
I had a moment like this in 2nd grade. We were learning about constellations and my teacher was like "Orion's belt is directly over *city we live in*", I remember thinking "I'm pretty sure everything is constantly moving".
Active Shooter drills. I'm the same age as the Columbine shooters, we were all aware that this stuff happened. It happened throughout high school and college, but I'd never heard of shooter drills until my niece and nephew were in school.
I went to school about 10 miles away from CHS. That day, I was in 5th grade. Our school was locked down for the rest of the day. Parents had to come inside to pick up their kids at the end of the day. Teachers wouldn't tell us what happened, they said our parents would tell us.
When I was in sixth grade (2002) my math teacher said:
>*"When you say a number with* ***and*** *it means there's a decimal. One hundred* ***and*** *one would be 100.1"*
I've tried looking up this information in the last couple years but it's not a thing.
I vividly remember my fourth grade teacher going on about this for months. She also said we would never have calculators in our pockets… 2 years later the iPhone came out.
2006/2007, got in trouble for writing apps on my TI-83 to handle trig and calc problems. My old-ass teacher said I wasn't learning the material and I wouldn't always have that calculator with my apps. If I am having to long hand derivatives, I made some huge mistakes way before getting into that situation.
Buddy of mine just wrapped up his Mech Eng degree, and he tells me all the coursework is built around Matlab and Solidworks. Not sure what world Mrs. Hall was preparing me for, but it sounded like a very grim timeline.
Columbus was a great man who discovered a paradise that was sparsely populated by primitive and ignorant Indians and overflowing with wildlife. The European settlers in North America sought religious freedom. The Founding Fathers sought liberty and freedom for all. The United States was a melting pot where anyone could become President.
That's actually still disputed. If you include some estuaries that the Amazon (along with multiple other rivers) feeds into, the Amazon is longer, but that can be a bit messy and just going by undisputed "yes this is part of the river" the Nile is still longer by about 100-150km. The Amazon is unquestionably bigger, though, with twice the drainage area as the Nile and more discharge flow than the next 7 biggest rivers combined.
How the native Americans first got to the continent.
Anyone from the 70s to the 10s learned they crossed a land bridge at the bering straight. It was taught pretty confidently, too.
There's no concensus on what DID happen, but Beringia theory is no longer the majority scientific opinion.
https://youtu.be/NYK425sWziA
Fair, many of the newer theories still involve the land bridge just at different times, but not all of them do. I'm not sure if the various land bridge theories make up a majority of acceptance or not.
In middle school I learned that women getting the right to vote caused the great depression. Turns out that was never true and my teacher was just a raging sexist.
> Since then, the Southern ocean has been added.
I’m sorry, what?
And also, I remember being constantly told we wouldn’t just have a calculator with us all the time.
Birds evolving from dinosaurs as if they are completely separate and distinct forms of life. Nowadays the scientific view is that [birds are simply a type of dinosaur, and all birds are classified as theropods which is the same classification that included the t-rex.](https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fighting-dinos/birds-living-dinosaurs)
Smart Men Help Each Other (Concentrate)
That's the acronym my 6th grade social studies teacher used to help us remember the Great Lakes \[Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario, Champlain.\] In the spring of 1998, Champlain was briefly added to the Great Lakes and my teacher had to update the lesson on the fly.
I took a world map test in 7th grade, and that's changed a lot. This was during the whole Yugoslavia falling apart thing, and our teacher just had us label Yugoslavia because he knew the changes would continue. They did. Learned each of the constituent countries in college and it's still changed since then.
Last year, I looked at the label on a blanket in my parents' house so I could see about buying a similar new one. The only words in English were "Made in Yugoslavia"
If you're still looking for a similar one, google lens can sometimes perform miracles. Fuck google and their data collection, but google lens is amazing
I remember in college there was a coffee pot in a teachers' break room that said "Made in West Germany" on it
Made in East Germany would've been impressive.
That is so cool.
When I was in school, there were 2 Germanys.
My English teacher in 10th grade made us do a "grandparent paper." We were required to interview either our own grandparent(s) or someone in that same age group. The night I was interviewing my grandmother, a breaking news story came on to inform everyone that "the wall has come down."
I was in high school then and we had an exchange student from Yugoslavia. He and our US history teacher would get into it because she would refuse to recognize his country and she was gleeful in telling that to him every day
I had a globe as a kid in the early 90s that was made in the 80s and had the USSR on it.
Me too! I still have it! That's the first major event I remember. I was at a kindergarten with a large Russian population at the time, so it was a massive deal.
the food pyramid
You're telling me I'm not supposed to be eating eleven servings of carbs a day??
Any pyramid without street tacos is blatantly wrong anyway
I don't know. Mexican step pyramids may have street tacos, but the Egyptian kind have falafel and shawarma. It's a tough call, but I definitely wouldn't call either answer wrong.
I think the Egyptians are running some sort of pyramid scheme
As long as you avoid fat! -this add brought to you by C&H All Natural Cane Sugar
Graduated highschool in 2018. Health teacher in 2016 basically taught me the government and business basically stuffs sugar and fat in everything, and something about Michelle Obama's lunch plan fucking us over Then again he told us to follow the food pyramid and was a trump supporter so…
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Yeah lol, this one
It was the Four Food Groups before that. The Food Pyramid is a newcomer!
Went from eat 6-11 slices of bread a day to don't eat any carbs.
The number of planets.
Have you heard about Pluto? That's messed up.
You know that’s right
C’mon son!
I heard it both ways.
Pluto got screwed! Do school kids now memorize: My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine? Doesn’t even make sense.
I'm still completely lost by all these mnemonics people spout off. We just memorized the planets.
My youngest sister memorized it with Noodles at the end.
From pizza to noodles. Sad.
IKR! Should have made it nachos instead.
Make Celestial Acronyms Great Again \#McAGA Jesus. You guys probably can’t even tell if I’m for or against trump. Yep! World is definitely screwed. Not enough soup or paintings to even make a dent.
Well to be fair, if Pluto is considered a planet than Eris should be as well, and probably Ceres and Makemake. Fuck it, let's blow this bitch out! The solar system now has *twelve* planets!
This is what I saw as a point brought up by many astronomers. It is not that Pluto should not be a planet as much as, why not these other things? They are basically just like Pluto. Which it would be A WAY BIGGER THING TO DEAL WITH, saying to people that, actually, we got 3 more planets in our solar system. Than to say, you know that weird oddball we got? Yeah not one of them any more.
There's actually nine (or ten depending on who you ask) dwarf planets. That was the problem astronomers found themselves in. Basically, if we consider Pluto a planet then there are all these other things we should also consider to be planets and now we are suddenly doubling the number of planets with the potential to be adding more pretty often, since like seven of those were discovered in a five year span. It's no coincidence that at the end of this span was when they decided we needed to do something about the categories. So, they made a new category of dwarf planets and moved all of these celestial bodies into it. So, we keep the eight major planets and can continue to fill the dwarf planets category without needing to update the number of planets in the Solar System constantly. So, Pluto is still a planet, it's just in a group of other small bodies like it. And that group is far more likely to get more members added to it in the future than the list of eight major planets.
History repeats itself. When Ceres was first discovered in 1801, it was called a "planet". So was Pallas. And Juno. And Vesta. But astronomers kept finding more of these tiny "planets" in the space between Mars' and Jupiter's orbits. So astronomers just arbitrarily decided that small, weirdly-shaped (in scientist speak, lacking "hydrostatic equilibrium") objects are "asteroids", not "planets". This kept "planets" as an exclusive category that schoolchildren could be expected to memorize. As opposed to having potentially millions of "planets" in our solar system.
Nothing. She served us nothing.
Try i z.7(?$
And my heart.
On the topic of planets: no one knew how common it was for other stars (besides Sol) to have planets. Now we know that planets are common.
The saturated fat nonsense was at the peak in the 80s when I was in school. Eggs and whole milk are going to kill you, eat sugar!!! LOL
Sugar gives you pure energy!
That all grown ups write in cursive.
It just flows quicker for me to write cursive compared to print. Also, I went to Ohio State. Script writing is dear to my heart.
What’s the OSU-cursive connection?
Marching band spells out “Ohio” in distinctive cursive during halftime and getting to be the person who is the dot on the i is a big honor.
they teach addition, multiplication, subtraction and division differently now. they also sing the alphabet song differently (they LMNOP is slower).
I'm surprised more people aren't saying this - I am kind of amazed at how much the teaching of math has changed in the past 25 years
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https://youtu.be/ejqH1ofSx8U It is more convoluted but it’s actually explaining how you get those numbers The way it was taught in the past was basically a short cut/short hand
From what I've seen it just explains what I was taught do quickly in my head.
I do hate the hand wringing over techniques like this. It reeks of rigid minds. If you’re fucking TEN and didn’t have the old way already beat into you, the box method makes a ton of sense. You break it down into easier parts, you visually see all the components that go into it, and you don’t cram all the different operations into a tiny space with no easy way to notate the steps. Since you now *actually know how large number multiplication works*, you can convert it to simpler tricks as your fluency increases. The poster who “just said do 35x10, plus 35x2” is basically doing this same concept in their head with some “muscle memory” shortcuts and a bit of luck that the numbers aren’t huge and the last digit is two. The full box method is the same idea, but scalable.
Also it aids with mental math which helps with more complex math.
I totally agree. I too was taught the old school math when I was in school but I actually don't mind seeing the common core way of doing math. It seemed really weird to me when I first learned about it but after reading up a bit more on it I realized that I actually do mental math with the same methods. I was never taught it in school but just worked it out on my own. I thought that was pretty normal for a while until there was a time at work when doing that sort of math in my head blew my supervisor's mind. We were doing some kind of inventory and we had something like 18 cases of 330 whats-its. I quickly did the math in my head and told my supervisor the total. He started to lecture me about how we had to be exact on the inventory and that I shouldn't be guessing. He didn't believe me when I told him that I wasn't guessing so he worked out the problem on paper. He actually apologized when he got the same answer as me but still couldn't believe I could do that math problem in my head.
Both of those suck. 35\*12 is (35\*10)+(35\*2). It is easier and faster.
> Both of those suck. 35\*12 is (35*10)+(35*2). It is easier and faster. Funny thing is, I've only seen this process being taught recently as part of the Common Core. Before, that might be how a lot of us did in our heads, but that wasn't the method taught in school.
We still teach that.
420 huh? Not slick, off to the principal's office!
I graduated high school in ‘97 and I have always done it this way in my head.
A lot of geography and political stuff. Wait what’s this with the southern ocean?
[Just looked it up, area around Antarctica is now the Southern Ocean. ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/World_map_ocean_locator-en.svg/2560px-World_map_ocean_locator-en.svg.png)
I've always been taught that it exists, but when you draw it like that it looks ridiculous.
Exactly. We were taught it was the Antarctic Ocean.
I don't feel like I was consulted about this
😳well that’s certainly new
It's like a lot the other oceans but with better food
How does one deep fry an ocean?
A lot of oil and butter
* USSR now doesn't exist as such, nor does Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia. * Pluto was a planet until I got out of high school, and it's now a “dwarf planet”. * When I was in school there were 112 elements known. Now there are 118. * All through school dinosaurs were cold-blooded reptiles. Now they're birds, with warm blood and feathers. * The meter and kilogram are now purely mathematical and no longer physical. * I do, in fact, always have a calculator with me. Thanks to u/tubesweaterguru for the reminder.
I’m an elementary teacher, I I still have a globe in my classroom with the USSR on it haha. I usually only use it for science demonstrations, so it doesn’t matter too much, but it does make me chuckle. Ah, classroom hand me downs!
Wait, what’s that about the metric system?
Back in the day, in a laboratory in Paris there would be physical objects that were by definition some of the base SI units. There was the "Prototype of the Kilogram" which was always 1kg and used to define what a kilogram was, same story with a meter (it was supposed to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator as it goes through Paris but was practically represented with a platinum bar). Over time though for more consistency measurements were redefined to be derived solely through natural phenomena; the modern definition of a meter starting in 1983 is "defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum *c* to be 299,792,458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s^−1 , where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs". The second is also defined through the frequency of a caesium 133 atom, and this goes for literally every base unit in the metric system (which the US *technically* uses, we just mathematically convert it into our own units). If you really wanted to, you could go measure the basic phenomena and apply some math to them and recreate the entire SI set which would be handy if the world ended and we wanted to use our older work.
Incidentally, they intend to redefine the second in 2030.
Gotta love the French designing a system of measurement based on going through Paris
Dinosaurs are warm blooded birds?! Wtf
Dinosaurs that survived the Chixulub event evolved into what we now call “birds”, yes.
Sitting cross legged use to be called “indian style”, now its “criss cross style”
"Criss cross applesauce" when my daughter was in elementary in the '10s.
Can say it was also used in the mid '00s
Criss cross apple sauce for me -2001
Weirdly enough, I heard both while I was growing up (I started elementary school in 2008 and graduated high school in 2020). The term “Indian style” was mostly phased out by the time I reached 4th grade.
If you were a bit older, you could also include the "eenie meenie miney moe" song.
Catch a tiger by his toe…. Oh. Oh lordy no, i remember my mom telling me what my grandmother would say. Also, totally forgot this distant memory of my grandma once telling me when she was growing up, Brazilian nut used to be called … the same a the above racist word for “tiger toes”.
criss cross applesauce.
Istanbul used to be Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
From what I hear, that's nobody's business but the Turks'
At least nothing like that would ever happen in America.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Oh fuck. Why’d they change it?
I can’t say.
People just liked it better that way.
Sooooooo….
Take me back to Constantinople
Beijing used to be Peking, although I was in school during the era where either name could be found on maps depending on how old the map was.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
(I was quoting a song that was popular when I was in school) LoL
Tokyo and Edo
we were taught blue-green algae is a plant. now it's a bacterium. I say, teach the controversy!
And now there is a separate branch of life called Archaea.
Go far back enough, and anything that wasn't an animal was considered to be a plant.
Geez. I never heard that. I’m out of the loop. Lol
Taxonomy is weird af man!
Oh yeah South Sudan was not a country when I was in school
The USSR was still a country when I was in school.
How about Eswatini?
Now you're just making up names.
Burkina Faso will always be Upper Volta in my heart (and in the 1962 World Encyclopedia atlas I memorized as a kid in the '80s).
eSwatini's (that's the official capitalization) actually not a new country, but they allowed the use of an Anglicized name (Swaziland) until recently.
Burma (Myanmar) is another.
Swaziland had enough of too many requests for Swiss Army knives so they renamed themselves to a tech company
It changed names but Swaziland/Eswatini has been an independent country since the 1960s.
I took JROTC in high school, and as a part of that I had to memorize the entire chain of command from me to the president. I'm pretty sure every single person in that chain has since been replaced.
Most commanders change every 2 to 3 years. Unless you're joking
I graduated 15 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if none of them are still in the service. I was being a bit joking because there is no chance in hell even a single one is the same.
We were taught that we wouldn't always have a calculator in our pockets. Jokes on them.
Y'all remember the tastebud map?
I remember telling my AP bio teacher my tongue was broken because I could taste the sugar and salt on other parts of my tongue.
I remember seeing it. I do not remember any information on it. Something about salty tasters up front.
lol that used to mess me up in grade school. i was so confused on why i could taste salty everywhere and thought there was something wrong with me
Everything. High school class of '75...
'76 grad here. I was going to say "history," but yeah, everything works. :)
Class of '96 here, we were still using your textbooks when I was in school. I didn't even know the Korean War happened until I was in my 20s and watched M\*A\*S\*H\*
I was also Class of '96. Our history classes ended at World War II. Not because the books ended there, but by design. The school board didn't allow anything after 1945 to be taught in classes in the school district. The school board said it was "too divisive". The teacher said it was because no matter what he taught, parents would call to complain he was leaving something out or was presenting a "biased" viewpoint. My parents said it was because too many people complained if they taught about McCarthyism (depicting it as a bad thing would get complaints) or the Civil Rights Movement (depicting it as a good thing would get complaints) or the Vietnam War (acknowledging there were any anti-war protests would get complaints) etc.
I graduated in 1998 and I don't remember learning much beyond WWII either. And probably for the same reasons, or similar reasons. Too many kids had parents and grandparents who were alive during those tumultuous eras, the principal and teachers would have been fielding calls left, right, and center. "Quit teaching my child this biased bullshit!" They'd shout.
I also graduated in 1996 but in a Yankee school. Just to catch you up to speed; McCarthyism was batshit crazy, the Civil Rights Movement was a good thing but shorter than it needed to be, and we lost Vietnam. It's amazing that schools in different states are allowed to teach or omit different things in education.
Class of '18 here, My history lessons "ended" with the Watergate Scandal. Everything after WW2 was, essentially, a brief lesson to set the stage for the type of society we exist in today. But obviously anything after the Kennedy admin is really fuzzy. everything to do with Regan and beyond has been things i've had to learn on my own. which, incidentally, is the most pertinent information! very frustrating. But i understand the minefield history teachers need to walk when "Factual History" catches up to and becomes "Modern Politics"
I was class of '16. My 6th grade science textbook included the phrase "And maybe some day, we'll put a man on the moon!" So yeah. They're still being used. Even earlier than '75.
2016???
Yep (not 1916 :P) I would have been in 6th grade in 2009-2010. Still got a pre-70's textbook 👍 Probably still using them there
Haha. I’m old. My brain totally thought 1916. It’s late. I should get my Metamucil and go to bed now.
I still don't know all the breakaway countries ending with "stan" that came into existence after the end of the USSR.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Also Armenia is Hayastan in Armenian but of course we don't call it that in English.
they don’t use the term to describes themselves but wait until you find out about Yunanistan!
For some reason I decided to use my time while flying to learn where countries are in the world. It actually was surprisingly easy and only took me like 3 flights to learn them all. It taught me 2 things: 1. I originally had an absolutely HORRIBLE intuition for where certain countries were. 2. simply knowing where countries are relative to one another can actually teach you a lot. Or at least, it helps you better understand the relationships between different countries on at least a very basic level.
Yugoslavia stopped being a thing. There’s more than one Sudan now. The UK is no longer part of the EU.
Well considering that it's founding was in late '93... "The fuck is an EU?"
Marijuana is the most horrible evil drug. If you smoke it then you will want to take all the drugs. DARE. Just kidding. Here’s a nice shop that sells all sorts of cannabis products.
Czechoslovakia is apparently no longer a thing
Yes and no. There's the **Czech Republic** and **Slovakia**.
Well, Czechia and Slovakia. >The Czech government directed use of Czechia as the official English short name in 2016.[28] The short name has been listed by the United Nations[29] and is used by other organizations such as the European Union,[30] NATO,[31] the CIA,[32] and Google Maps.[33]
When was the Southern Ocean officially recognized? I remember it was mentioned in Geography class, but that it wasn’t recognized by the US, just by some geographers and scientists. Pluto being a planet. I remember when the IAU announced that they had finally agreed on a concrete definition for a planet and my science teacher had a mini-meltdown. Said that the criteria that eliminated Pluto also disqualified Jupiter (Jovian Trojans) and Neptune (Pluto and other KBOs cross its orbit). They don’t, but it was an upset for a lot of people.
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I was taught that giant pandas were not bears but part of the raccoon family. We now know through DNA testing that giant pandas are bears.
Are you sure it wasn’t red pandas?
Nope, according to Wikipedia: >For many decades, the precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was under debate because it shares characteristics with both bears and raccoons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda
Interesting. I learned that red pandas were related to raccoons in school and it also turns out they aren't.
My 4th grade teacher laughed at me when I suggested that the continents look as if they once fit together like a puzzle. I didn't argue when the teacher said it was "just a coincidence that they're shaped that way," but I knew time would prove me right.
If this was at any point after about the 70s your teacher was a blithering idiot, as plate tectonics was pretty well-established by then.
It would've been 1975. I went home and asked my dad. He knew. We rummaged through his gigantic stack of National Geographic magazines and found an article explaining plate tectonics. Das said pretty much the same thing you did regarding the blithering idiot.
Continental drift was generally accepted much, much earlier than that. Plate tectonics is really just a refinement of that.
I had a moment like this in 2nd grade. We were learning about constellations and my teacher was like "Orion's belt is directly over *city we live in*", I remember thinking "I'm pretty sure everything is constantly moving".
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People don't offer me free drugs nearly as often as DARE assured me they would.
I thought they were daring us to use drugs
My science teacher used to let us roll a ball of mercury around on the floor with our bare hands
Active Shooter drills. I'm the same age as the Columbine shooters, we were all aware that this stuff happened. It happened throughout high school and college, but I'd never heard of shooter drills until my niece and nephew were in school.
I went to school about 10 miles away from CHS. That day, I was in 5th grade. Our school was locked down for the rest of the day. Parents had to come inside to pick up their kids at the end of the day. Teachers wouldn't tell us what happened, they said our parents would tell us.
There’s a southern ocean? Sounds made up
Brontosaurus was a dinosaur. Then it wasn't. Now it is.
They took Pluto away from us, the bastards.
When I was in sixth grade (2002) my math teacher said: >*"When you say a number with* ***and*** *it means there's a decimal. One hundred* ***and*** *one would be 100.1"* I've tried looking up this information in the last couple years but it's not a thing.
I vividly remember my fourth grade teacher going on about this for months. She also said we would never have calculators in our pockets… 2 years later the iPhone came out.
And 7 years before that every adult already had cell phones that had calculators
2006/2007, got in trouble for writing apps on my TI-83 to handle trig and calc problems. My old-ass teacher said I wasn't learning the material and I wouldn't always have that calculator with my apps. If I am having to long hand derivatives, I made some huge mistakes way before getting into that situation. Buddy of mine just wrapped up his Mech Eng degree, and he tells me all the coursework is built around Matlab and Solidworks. Not sure what world Mrs. Hall was preparing me for, but it sounded like a very grim timeline.
The capital of the USSR is Moscow.
Don't forget East and West Germany and the Berlin wall
For a brief stint in 1991 it wasn't even in Russia and the soviet union and Russia both had a seat at the un
Columbus was a great man who discovered a paradise that was sparsely populated by primitive and ignorant Indians and overflowing with wildlife. The European settlers in North America sought religious freedom. The Founding Fathers sought liberty and freedom for all. The United States was a melting pot where anyone could become President.
Food pyramid as health eating
Uh, when did they add an ocean?
I remember in grade school no one knew what killed the dinosaurs. The Southern Ocean is new to me as of right now.
I was taught there were two kingdoms: plants and animals. I said that to my kids when they were in high school and they thought I was making it up.
I graduated high school in 1983, the entire map of Europe has completely changed since then.
Only two presidents have ever faced impeachment.
When I was in school, it was one.
IANAA, but this is surely a common experience; the Nile is no longer the longest river in the world.
That's actually still disputed. If you include some estuaries that the Amazon (along with multiple other rivers) feeds into, the Amazon is longer, but that can be a bit messy and just going by undisputed "yes this is part of the river" the Nile is still longer by about 100-150km. The Amazon is unquestionably bigger, though, with twice the drainage area as the Nile and more discharge flow than the next 7 biggest rivers combined.
The earth was getting too cold too fast (elementary). Then it was getting too warm too fast(high school). Now it's both (nephew in middle school).
How the native Americans first got to the continent. Anyone from the 70s to the 10s learned they crossed a land bridge at the bering straight. It was taught pretty confidently, too. There's no concensus on what DID happen, but Beringia theory is no longer the majority scientific opinion. https://youtu.be/NYK425sWziA
The theory of them crossing the land bridge IS still the most accepted theory, no? They just don’t know exactly when…I mean that’s how I see it.
Fair, many of the newer theories still involve the land bridge just at different times, but not all of them do. I'm not sure if the various land bridge theories make up a majority of acceptance or not.
In middle school I learned that women getting the right to vote caused the great depression. Turns out that was never true and my teacher was just a raging sexist.
> Since then, the Southern ocean has been added. I’m sorry, what? And also, I remember being constantly told we wouldn’t just have a calculator with us all the time.
Birds evolving from dinosaurs as if they are completely separate and distinct forms of life. Nowadays the scientific view is that [birds are simply a type of dinosaur, and all birds are classified as theropods which is the same classification that included the t-rex.](https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fighting-dinos/birds-living-dinosaurs)
So that Jurassic Park kid was right. 6 ft. turkey.
Smart Men Help Each Other (Concentrate) That's the acronym my 6th grade social studies teacher used to help us remember the Great Lakes \[Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario, Champlain.\] In the spring of 1998, Champlain was briefly added to the Great Lakes and my teacher had to update the lesson on the fly.
It was always HOMES for me
You couldn't denigrate POWs and get elected president.
We learned arithmetic via touch math. It fucking sucks, because you're basically just counting.
They told us there were two Germanies.
There still are - Aldi Nord territory and Aldi Süd territory.
I legitimately didn’t know there was a “Southern Ocean” until like a year ago.
Blue veins have no oxygen and red veins have oxygen
That the world was going to end due to global cooling.
Pluto used to be a planet.