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I once had a teacher who thought the leader of all American forces in Vietnam was Lieutenant Calley, the army officer who perpetrated the My Lai Massacre. He was a history teacher. This was a question on a test. He wouldn't even admit to being wrong when I challenged him in front of the entire class. Even if you don't know who Calley is I'd think his Lieutenant rank would give away that he wasn't a general.
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Yeah. And that kind of profound lack of content knowledge is disastrous to the profession overall.
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Having known several this is not my experience. They've come across as being just as capable of not knowing what Germany is.
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Still probably above average among my former students.