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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sympathize, OP, but it's already a huge step that they are even learning about India and Pakistan in elementary. Would not have happened a generation ago. 
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But four generations ago they'd need to be able to name its principal exports and imports in order to pass an eighth grade graduation exam. Geography was pretty hard core back in the early 1900s.[/quote]

I have a relative who grew up at the turn of the last century, and yes, geography was pretty hard core. His education led him from a farm to a US government agency that stationed him all over the world. However, I have his textbooks and the equivalent of workbooks (really just textbooks that students wrote in) through the equivalent of middle school. Huge focus on geography and grammar. Zero foreign language (which we have at our elementary starting in K) and math was pretty basic- there is no way he got to calculus in high school. You can only learn so much in a certain amount of time and the emphasis in each generation changes.

When I was in school we never got very far in geography or history. It felt like we did a few units on the Greeks and Romans and Medieval times, but mostly we got bogged down in the years 1776-1800 + state history. If my kid even got vaguely close to talking about Asia, it would be an improvement.[/quote]

Calculus may have been less popular for high school graduates in 1900 (and "high school graduate programs" was a far more elite status then than now when we strive for 90%+ graduation rate), but algebra and geometry was much more intense than normal college prep algebra and geometry now. [/quote]

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