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Well said. The US should learn from ~~Czechoslovakia’s~~ the Czech Republic’s emphasis on education.
https://mzv.gov.cz/washington/en/culture_events/education/education_system_in_the_czech_republic
Czechoslovakia? The country that hasn't existed for 30 years?
Czech Republic. My bad. Old brain.
Don't feel bad friend, I keep forgetting that it's not a thing anymore as well
Some of us still think Yugoslavia is on the map somewhere! I can't find it! Where is it?!
Hold on... It's not‽
TIL I need to re-up my geography knowledge
The world has changed a lot since I was in school (and our books were old AF then (some of my history books in the early 2000s referred to the civil rights movement as "growing tensions" lol))
Put it in ‘H’!
As of 2016, their name is preferably Czechia. ^^'
Thanks. I think I need a song for that and Burma/Myanmar. I never forget now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.
The song helped me remember that one much more than I'd like to admit.
To be clear, as of 2016, they changed their name to Czechia. ^^'
Average age of a globe/map in a US classroom is old enough where the teacher had to explain why there's only 49 stars
That's the same in any other developed nation, just not the one that affects us all globally the most. Fuck's sake
The US was downgraded to a developing nation.
https://theconversation.com/us-is-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality-190486