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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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Or he just didnât pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesnât help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries. Lots of them basically teach history so they can be a coach instead. Because public schools donât hire independent coaches, and require all of them to teach something. So the coaches tend to fall into teaching history, because itâs easier than learning to teach calculus or chemistry.
see: forgot to properly teach him.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
For that, you're gonna need a hose.
I'd say they made the attempt, but if he didn't listen that much, the problem is them passing him, not attempting to teach him.
that is definitely a problem of the US education system. The "no child left behind" policy is absolute garbage.
COMPLETELY agreed. No Child Left Behind made WAY too many fucking idiots think that they're up to standard of "functioning human being", when that is demonstrably not the case.
He doesnât look that young. I canât imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasnât as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.
If heâs from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.
Eh, 9/11 was ~25 years ago. And if we assume that a child under the age of, say, 5 wouldn't be interested in such things and wouldn't be exposed to it much, especially if not in the US ... then someone could feasibly be up to 30 years old right now and have been too young to notice or care when 9/11 happened.
And I don't know about your age standards ... but this guy looks like he could easily be under 30.
Iâm very squarely in that age bracket and it was hard to ignore 9/11 if you were at all exposed to any media. I canât imagine anyone 25-30 managing to entirely ignore 9/11 even without teachers talking about it. Maybe someone with the absolute peak of sheltering could ignore it. But outside of that I canât imagine anyone in the US 25-30 having no clue.
i'd say anyone under 35 wasn't really aware for it.
35 might be an exaggeration, they would have been around 9 years old, old enough to remember something.
Yeah, this is definitely wrong. My younger brothers are significantly younger than 35 right now, and they still remember where they were when it happened.
nonexistent?
2026-2001=25
36-25=11
11>0
đ Your math is bad. Read what they said closer
Anyone who is older than 25 existed when the towers fell, which is significantly younger than 35. Whether a kid much younger than 11 can remember where he was when it happened is another question, but the math is correct.
nah, they left out all the inequalities, which kind of break the equation
History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.
I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.
How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.
On a wide side note, I had an amazing Ancient History instructor in college. First day he told us not to bother getting the text for the class, we're not using it. He took us on an incredible ride.
Ooh can confirm: Our coach taught us that nazi germany was communist and north korea killed more people than any civilization in history.
That's so stupid. Everybody knows that Nazi Germany was socialist!
Some people believe in anything..
What the hell is this coach thing?! No wonder some American schools have a teaching problem đ±, it's already hard to get good teachers but letting mr run after the ball teach history...
Baffled.
When I was in school all the coaches taught physical education
Fuck you, I'm not old!