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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
For starters, it depends, as in when and where you went to school. Poor vs. Wealthy type of depend. As for me when I went through the public school system, history class was mainly set up around US history and Some Global history, so this person is just lazy, because they couldn't even identify where Hawaii is. US history was mostly mainland development (although it was pretty uninvolved, they never talked about the Rockefellers and Carnegie, beyond "Big oil and steel"). Global was Ancient civilizations up to the medieval period (we learned some medieval mechanics), again pretty uninvolved, you were lucky if got a section on Japan and even then it was "We came, we saw, we conquered [applied force] them to trade with us". As it pertains to Europe, they should know at least where Germany and Poland are because WW1/2 are pretty involved with us being godsent to save everyone and bankrolling most parties redevelopment. Not kidding. If they took French as a foreign language, most people take Spanish, that should cover French geography. England and the UK is the only one where you don't really learn much about. They just say "Great potato famine" for the UK and america comes to save all the immigrants while making the rich just that much richer. If I had to name something about England based on general public education Id probably just say Churchill, we seriously don't go there.

Like I said it varies greatly from state to state and economic area. Generally, Southern public education is considered the worst while Inner city schooling has the highest fail rate, probably because (in my opinion) you have a bunch of poor people trying to survive and they don't have time to learn about Brittons and Saxons of England.
gpt
Thanks for the summary. We had to learn and place all Amercan states on the map