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When your students ask questions, do you answer with the same condescension?

Your focus is on "human geography" and you don't see how international plane travel is germane?

Also, [b]why on Earth would kids study medieval African culture[/b]? Is that actually in the MCPS curriculum? Is that like Virginia making second graders study ancient Mali?[/quote]

Why on earth wouldn't kids study medieval African culture? The class is "world studies", and medieval African culture is part of the human experience. It's even part of the European human experience, given trade between Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa.

(I'm not the PP who is the teacher.)

The MCPS 7th grade world studies curriculum is:

Unit 1: "Foundations of Modern Political Systems" (medieval Europe)
Unit 2: "The Influence of Culture in Africa" (medieval Africa)
Unit 3: "Geography Shapes Latin America" (medieval Latin America (Incas and Aztecs)
Unit 4: "The Impact of Economics: One World Past & Present" (world trade after 1450)

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/socialstudies/middle/grade7/[/quote]

And that is the year split into quarters? How PC.[/quote]

Don't like it? MoCo has many lovely private schools. Or you can purchase a conservative homeschool curriculum.[/quote]

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