Another niece of mine was recently given a project at college, re WW2 on the Japanese involvement, she asked for reference books but was told there were very few for her to look at, so yet again i lent her some of my books, when she submitted her essay and references, the teacher who was marking , marked her down as she stated that her references were incorrect, the main crititism was that the Japanese used very few British soldiers to build the Burma Railway and that it was mainly native workers used, my niece took my books into college showed the teacher, who was surprised that she got it so wrong, What chance do these kids have if the teaching staff know very little of modern history themselves, one piece of this teachers "knowledge" was that all Japanese soldiers were Samurai . Something that amazed me just a few weeks ago was that i was doing a show on stage and some younger members of the cast were talking in the dressing room about WW2, about half of them thought that "Inglorious bastards" was a factual film, and these kids were in their mid to late teens, i really do despair at times
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