So Much Push-back, But Why?
Not too many people liked my dislike of teachers and the current teaching methods in schools. So let’s have another go at this! While I said that not many teachers actually teach, I am not making that up.
Most teachers, with the exception of a few, do not get regular updates in the curriculum and most teach the same shit year after year after year. For one, this makes them lazy and redundant. Teaching something untrue or proven false, like the simple discovery of America by Christopher Columbus to name the main one.
Who Knew About America Before Columbus?
Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage is often credited as the “discovery” of America in European history, but many peoples and cultures were aware of and inhabited the Americas long before his arrival.
Indigenous Peoples
Native Americans: The first and most important group to acknowledge. Various indigenous cultures had been living in the Americas for at least 15,000-20,000 years before Columbus.
Inuit: Inhabited parts of Greenland and Arctic North America for thousands of years.
Norse Explorers
Leif Erikson: Led a Norse expedition around 1000 CE, establishing a settlement in what is now Newfoundland, Canada.
Other Norse settlers: Maintained presence in Greenland for several centuries, with potential further explorations of North America.
Possible Earlier Contacts
Polynesian sailors: Some evidence suggests they may have reached South America around 1200 CE.
African sailors: Controversial theories propose potential West African contact with the Americas before Columbus.
Asian Awareness
Chinese explorers: Some historians argue that Chinese sailors may have reached the Americas in the 15th century, though this remains debated.
European Awareness
Basque fishermen: May have been fishing off the coast of Newfoundland before Columbus’s voyage.
Bristol merchants: English sailors possibly reached Newfoundland in the 1480s.
Known in Europe by Reputation
Norse sagas: Stories of Vinland (North America) circulated in Northern Europe.
Speculative cartography: Some European maps showed lands west of the Atlantic before 1492.
While Columbus’s voyage marked the beginning of sustained European contact with the Americas, it’s clear that many others knew of and interacted with the continents long before 1492. The idea of Columbus “discovering” America oversimplifies a complex historical reality.
Is it hard to re-teach all this? Oh hell yes, but no one says anything about it because of all the controversy. So the teachers, the unions and the governments go on peddling crap into the children’s heads.
Old Ideas
Instead of teaching about the economy and how the finance or the debt system works, they teach about the current state of the pronouns and transgender issues. Sure, educate, but you all were quick to jump on that bandwagon instead of the many outdated information in your curriculums.
Sort of like… How many planets are out there… Yes, much more than the main bunch we are made aware of. Why? Because it would take too much effort for you to learn as well. Because every teacher would need to relearn so much that they too are outdated as much as the methods and information they are peddling to our children.
The main planets taught in most schools are the 8 planets in our solar system:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
The number of known exoplanets has increased dramatically in recent years due to improved detection methods and dedicated missions like the Kepler Space Telescope. However, detailed information about specific exoplanets is generally not part of standard school curricula, though the concept of exoplanets might be introduced in some advanced classes.
