I'm sorry but this is literally impossible. The Holocaust is forced in to your brain in school, from an early age.

It's not impossible. There's some kids that never see the inside of a public or even private school, they are home schooled and a very high percentage of those families have some kind of crackpot religious fundamentalism, where there would be an increased potential for Holocaust revisionism and/or denial. Some statistics:

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91


I do not have statistics as to whether or not or what percentage of the estimated 1.5 million kids in the US are not taught about the Holocaust but the principle reason given for homeschooling is " a desire to provide religious or moral instruction (36 percent of students)".

Looking in the mirror.

That should make you feel cool. :thumb:

That's very true but this woman is obviously educated. After all, she's a carer. So it's not like she had some sort of sheltered upbringing or didn't go to school. She's reasonably intelligent from what I know of her. This has just shocked me. My sis originally said "death camps" and she didn't know what she meant, so she said, "You know: concentration camps" and she said "What's that?" :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I was just addressing James' contention that it's not possible for anyone to be unfamiliar with the Holocaust

the age of the earth, diamonds, dinosaur bones, the sun, the moon.

http://i.imgur.com/ZTjT6ew.gif

my blood boils at the thought of the holocaust; it was one of the most vile things that ever happened to humanity, and yet I have a very faint desire for her entire lineage to have been destroyed in the wake of genocide so we wouldn't have to tolerate that level of stupidity in modern times.

Very true, and quite startling. But for somebody in Trollheart and I's corner of the world I think it's extremely unlikely.

Dang Paul home schooling isn't that sinister. They for have guidelines and they have to teach world history. If you lived in silly ass states like Texas where the education standards where they oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

You would home school your kids instead of sending them off to public school.

DJ is right. Homeschooling is not the same as Unschooling. Parents or guardians who decide to "homeschool" have a curriculum, guidelines and assessment pieces that they need to complete and are constantly checked up on re: their children's progress and learnings. "Unschooling" (it has various different names these days, this is one that I can think of) is completely different and is basically where the parents/guardians don't send their children to school but also don't follow a curriculum or set guidelines. They don't really have any pedagogy behind what their kids are learning. Completely different from homeschooling, so don't lump all homeschooling parents into that stereotype!

I didnt.



36 percent is IMO an unacceptably high percentage but certainly not *all* or even a majority. Furthermore I stated that it was an unknown percentage of that group that could be fed the crackpot ideas. It could be half or less, idk but I do know those people are out there.

I haven't been to the link because Chrome stopped me saying it was dangerous but 36% adding religious instruction to the rest of their home school curricular. Isn't crack pot ideas that won't teach world studies.

^ Oh for crying out loud Deej read what I wrote

You know by now I can't read.

Were you homeschooled by any chance?

It's not so much that you can't read as much as you can't finish the first sentence, let alone move on to the second.

Good ole Public school education.

chaperoning a senior class trip and coming to the realization that you are old enough to be their father

I'm not sure what you're saying here... are you saying that it would be better if my friend the carer had not been born? Surely you're not saying that? But I lost the thread of your comment, completely.

Especially given the amount of history channel dox, movies, even video games for chrissakes! It seems absolutely unbelievable that anyone could be unaware of one of the most heinous crimes ever committed on this planet. I wonder if she knows about a guy called Hitler? I'm not joking. I'm gonna ask her. But of course I don't want to seem like I'm making fun of her. It is worrying though, if this is a trend. I wonder how many of "The Facebook Generation" would know about this?

And now I feel about a hundred and ten years old! :rolleyes:

Sometimes!

When people comment on a song or band that they loved when they were growing up and you are like ****! I AM old!

.

Are you quoting this because you have the same outlook? Because I know you're not eighteen...

NO cause YOURE 18

when the **** did that happen

Haha, September of 2013. We grow up so fast!

Nothing.

I will be young until I die.

**** YOU STAY PUNK.


ALL THE KIDS SO SATISFIED TO SHED THEIR SKINS AND SHUT THEIR EYES.

I love it too. Honestly, I've gotten far more into music, movies and society of yore. I absolutely adore Gone With The Wind, Doctor Zhivago, How To Marry A Millionare, Breakfast and Tiffany's, Show Boat, Spartacus, the Fall of the Roman Empire, etc etc.

I feel old when I see tweens posting on twitter about Justin Bieber.

Best (worst) of all was when I still worked for a living. Mentioned Mark Anthony and one of the women there went "Oh yeah isn't he married to Whitney Houston" (or some celebrity). I tried to point out I was talking about the historical figure, but I must have sprouted three extra heads without knowing it, from the blank look she gave me.

Bleeding Facebook Generation! Grumble mutter growl.....

If you like Casablanca, Key Largo is another good one.

Marc anthony is married to J-lo. double whammy.

Btw, i googled Mark Anthony cause idk who he is either, and you know what i got?

Marc anthony.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T-BMTczsvS...-anthony-1.jpg

People have always been dumb, you can't blame it on Facebook.

Celebrity gossip has been around for ages. I have no idea what that has to do with the Facebook Generation.

Also agree with James, dumb people aren't something that is exclusive to this generation even if you'd like to think so.

Can and will.
;)
There's nobody of my generation who would have said that. Maybe I should have said the celeb generation but whatever, it's all the same. People don't know their history and would rather just read the latest crappy ****e about celebs than make themselves aware. I guarantee, that girl did nothing to find out who the Mark Antony I was talking about was...

Ooo okay that sounds good.

That's my fault. I spelled it incorrectly.
Mark Antony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Three things that make me feel old:

1. I haven't bought a new Harry Potter book for 7 years.
2. The fact that the "personalised" Facebook advertisements are suggesting IVF treatments and nappies.
3. The original Power Rangers made their television debut 20 years ago. I had a pink ranger costume.

lolwut

1. you obviously young as shit if you're judging your age by that.

2. I don't even know what any of that means

3. I think I was an adult when that stuff was popular. Don't even know but it was definitely childish

lol, I was being sarcastic, do you really think that I would judge time passing by standards of Harry Potter books being released?*

Regardless, as someone who's age is scarily approaching 30 surrounded by similar or younger-aged persons in this environment, it personally makes me feel old :)

*(Just kidding, I do.)