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“The Bataan Death March has never, ever,” Gaerlan says, “been part of the history curriculum in American schools.” She also says it’s neglected in education in
by ghshephard 11y ago
“The Bataan Death March has never, ever,” Gaerlan says, “been part of the history curriculum in American schools.” She also says it’s neglected in education in the Philippines.
Is this true? As a Canadian, it certainly got a mention in our (Grade 9? Grade 10?) social studies.
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- Phithagoras 11y agoWhat provincial curriculum were you following? In Alberta, it was not covered at all.
- ghshephard 11y agoBritish Columbia, 1983/1984. I'm struggling to remember whether it was Grade 9 or Grade 10 - it was in the section covering world war II. Mind blowingly boring, and the teacher was clearly just checking off all the bullet points in the curriculum, one after another. Horrible way to teach. I'm wondering if that particular segment was dropped(or was added at one point) to the curriculum for propaganda purposes - certainly didn't make the Japanese sound like very nice people.
- nemo 11y agoWe covered in my 8th grade in my Soc. Studies/History class (in California, in the 80s), though maybe that was because the teacher was WW II obsessed. We watched a lot of films of WW II combat in the Pacific including bits of Corregidor falling to the Japanese as I recall and went over MacArthur's "I came out of Bataan and I shall return" speech, and watched a whole lot of films of combat with the teacher describing tracers and types of aircraft and talking about Kamikazes, so he might have just been a bit obsessed. Some HS history class went over the War in the Pacific too and covered the Philippines, though I can't recall if the Bataan Death March was mentioned.
- gonzo 11y agoIt was covered in middle and high school for me, but that was the 70s.