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To: JohnM who wrote (92299)	4/12/2003 1:15:09 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

My college students tended to be reasonably well versed in US history. (Well, they tended to get a top down approach in high school, but that was better than nothing.) The problem is that, with rare exceptions, they had no exposure to European history, let alone global history. And geography. Forget about it. If I had kids in school today, I'd be VERY interested in seeing what the curriculum was, including the number of History classes from grades 6-12, what books were used for regular text books, who compiled and edited them, what their background was, what other papers they had written, etc. We had to take at least one semester of World History before we could graduate HS, and the Honor kids usually took History every semester, even as an elective. I know I did. I think these educational deficiencies partially explain such howlers as almost 50% of the US population believes Saddam had something to do with 9-11. Yep. I must be one of those 50% (your number), or 75% (my number. Some day we'll ALL know about the training camps, WHO/WHAT country funded them, and what terrorist groups trained where.