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And also, serious question here...Is history taught in any meaningful way in schools in the US? I know its pretty crap in the UK, but I heard somewhere that its particularly awful in the States.....McGame seems to bear this out.
My track (and remember that this track was about a 7,5 on the hardness track)
World Geography - done very well by a teacher who is basically exactly like pausol; my grade wasn't great at the end for lots of reasons, but I learned tons, and most of what I remember I recall
World History - the recommended first class for freshmen (meaning you do not get geography at all) was taught approximately as well in terms of bredth, but not depth. This means that we went through a crapload of var varied history all over the world, but we couldn't do the last two centuries. The russian revolution and cold war might never have happened.
US History - Typical important propaganda/ information class depending on who teaches it.
economics/polisci or AP econ and AP government - AP levels let you take the opt out test for most universities, depending on your score. I ended up with a B and credit in both but that was um.. sort of the first time of the um.. hospital, so, yeah
I think that the full IB diploma (mine was merely certificate in a could of areas) had a culmination history course, but I can't remember much about it.
Technically, once you finished world hist us hist and econ/polisci your last year was an elective. Not many who had finished SS in 3 years bothered to sign up for an elective, mainly freshman class.