What good are us Americans if our Social Study classes do not give us

[Daniee]

knowledge of current events? This thought came across my mind earlier. Have you guys noticed that in each level of Social Studies classes we learn the same old events repeatedly? Starting from grade school to high school. I'm not saying that learning past events is a terrible thing, I think it's quite helpful. In fact, it gives us students more exposure as to how to come up with new methods of thinking of our future problems, how to avoid repeating history, and so on. By the time we reach high school, you'd think that we would start learning about BIGGER and more CURRENT/RECENT issues: the 9/11 conspiracy, Bush's/Current president's affairs, New World Order, the Government's methods of their doings, theories of our future, issues on our current war problems, etc. Why don't we learn ANY of that? We may talk about it every so often but why aren't those are daily lessons? It only makes sense. I feel like us American students are NOT getting the true knowledge that we NEED.