I briefly considered studying to become a history teacher, because I’d be good at it and the pay is decent in my state, but then I realized I’d be forced to teach Howard Zinn, Jared Diamond, and other nonsense to the next generation. Nah.
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High school history teachers are essentially priests of the American civic religion, since that’s pretty much the extent of the experience most Americans have with learning their country’s history, besides popular culture and maybe a few undergrad courses. We’re apostates of it.
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There was a history teacher at my school who had written a book about communism, I was never in his class but he covered once and gave us a straight pitch on how Lenin was great
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