Why They Should Care, and Why They Don't

In November, Russia waged a short, brutal war against Georgia. The Kremlin claimed it was to protect the separatist (and pro-Russian) section named South Ossetia, but in reality it was a proxy war fought against the United States. The story was quickly reported, and then forgotten in the minds of most Americans. In fact, most Americans probably don't know that a country named Georgia actually exists. But they should know, and they should care. The United States has spent a great deal of time, money, and resources outfitting the Georgian government and army with American equipment and training. This fall's war was a big, fat "*&^* off" from Russia to the US and the rest of the West.

Of course, it's hard to care about a war in a country that you don't know exists. Fact based curriculum has slowly disappeared from schools in the past two decades and subjects like geography have become practically obsolete. The current education movement of "Learning how to learn" has produced an entire generation of children who have graduated from high school having learned next to nothing. Contentless curriculum's pervade classrooms, filling children's heads with politically correct nonsense. In England, all secondary curriculum has been funneled into 6 "learning areas." History and geography are now relegated to "human, social, and environmental understanding" where those two important subjects will no doubt compete for airtime against learning about recycling and global warming.

Think back. Do even remember having a geography lesson. Did you even have a map in your classroom? Can you name the capitol of Canada? London? Spain? Did you know there was a country named Georgia? If your answers were no, I don't blame you. You couldn't control the contentless curriculum you were force fed. And when you hear about the goings on in the world, and you don't care, again I cannot blame you. It's hard to care about people you never knew existed.