Asklemmy

Everything about Christopher Columbus.

Some children are taught in school that God created the earth. Some of us were allowed to learn that humans cannot effect climate change, allowed to discuss it openly, and allowed to graduate with that idea without ever being corrected. Children are being taught today that slavery and colonialism were good things for some people.

Racism used to be a problem until Lincoln and MLK fixed it.

That glass is a liquid at room temperature, just a very viscous one so it doesn't appear to flow. It's not. It's not a crystalline solid so it has an internal structure similar to a liquid, but the structure is definitely solid at room temperature because the components are not capable of moving relative to each other like a liquid would.

I had a substitute teacher who saw the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads against John Kerry and repeated it to the class like it was 100% fact.

Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?

I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???

"You need to learn this because you won't always have a calculator on you!"

That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like "do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?" and "do you like more freedom or less freedom?" All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.

This was in middle school so I wasn't even politically engaged yet. I didn't realize how crazy this was until years later.

That tastes have specific regions on the tongue. We actually had to protest when that shit was taught at our son's elementary school. Don't know if it came up for our younger daughter.

Poor kids at school had old atlases where Germany was still separated. But I guess that's just obsolete and not false knowledge.

The United States operates on the principle of three co-equal branches of government, which check and balance each others power.

Trickle down economics (well, it's not like there was a time when it was true)

That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).

I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.

Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.

Multiplication tables (I still know them mostly). I have a calculator on damn near every device now.

Things will always get better <-- this one is the biggest lie of them all

That America is the best and most free country in the world.

Study and work hard will make you successful.

I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.

• that Pluto is a planet

Trickle down economics are an effective way to redistribute wealth

I was chucked into Christian school.

So... a lot of it.

"Those bullies will be working at a gas station while you'll be the boss!"

I was taught the Philippines was a US territory. I just learned last night that hasn’t been true since 1946. I went to school in the 90s.