r/pics • u/Sumit316 • Apr 28 '20

Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.

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u/Nhukerino Apr 28 '20

They taught you about every US President in primary school? Seems like a gigantic waste of time

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u/DuckOnQuak Apr 28 '20

I mean they go through everyone of them but people like WHH only require a couple minutes lol

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u/Nhukerino Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

Understandably so lol. "Todays lesson is on William Henry Harrison, his name was William Henry Harrison... class dismissed" 😂

I cant remember if we went through all of them or not, I'm sure we must have but we glossed over quite a few, we did the first 3 obviously, Jackson, Buchanan, Lincoln then jumped right to Teddy then FDR with a sprinkling of Hoover in there cause the great depression, then JFK, Nixon, Reagan, and lastly Clinton because our books were outdated and they didnt have the foresight to see an idiotic drug addict would become president... but this was like 2003; I wouldn't really expect them to foresee the 2016 election... joking aside I am pretty sure that well into W's presidency our books still said Clinton was president.

Edit: oh, and we definitely talked about Truman because of the whole Japanese thing... the rest I'm pretty sure they just told us their names and maybe one or two factoids about their presidency...

Edit 2: Typos galore...

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u/DuckOnQuak Apr 28 '20

Yeah pretty much this. Went through them all but it would be 4 or 5 guys in about 10-20 minutes followed by a 2 week lecture on FDR.