• Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    We learned the hippies were ineffectual drug addicts that believed in super weird stuff. Then HIV happened and free love was over. Then Manson family killed a bunch of people and became a scape goat. The hippies lost their appeal. Computers blew up and we never went back to that place to try and figure out how to do it right.

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      Wow. Really? When was this? Where was this?

      I certainly remember several times when learning American history throughout my education about the Civil Rights movement and the resistance to the Vietnam War.

      Admittedly though, I don’t know how much of that I learned in school, vs learned in Museums.

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        We learned about free love and the hippie movement in school. I went to school in a very blue state.

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          That’s incredible. Maybe Minnesota is just that different? My son still learned about the civil rights movement and civil disobedience in 2nd grade. Specifically they mentioned MLK Jrs marches and sit-ins, and how even something as small as Rosa Parks sitting where she wasn’t allowed to was an act of civil disobedience.

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            I wonder if Id remember the cover of the text books if I saw them. Anyway, sorry your kids arent getting the education I received but to be honest, it wasn’t that great. At least for me but there are another of other personal factors that attribute to that.

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              ? No, I’m saying they are getting the education I received. It’s not exactly a topic you dump on kids in second grade in its full reality. You introduce the pieces over time. Edit: I should say this is Minnesota.