POLL: I’m going to ask a few questions about your history/social studies experience in US high school. If possible, please answer every question. Thanks!

Q1) Did you learn about the Iran-Contra scandal in high school?

Q2) Did you learn that Al Qaeda attacked the US on 9/11 (not a nation state), and that they were funded and highly praised by the US government during Ronald Reagan’s administration?

Q3) Per your estimation, did you receive an adequate education about the respective definitions of capitalism and socialism?

Q4) Did you learn about the Cuban Revolution, including the US-backed Batista regime that preceded it?

Q5) Did you learn about the Black Panthers?

Q6) Did you learn that scientists have known about the ways carbon dioxide affects the climate since the late 19th century?

Q7) Did you learn that the United States government overthrew Chile’s democratically elected President in 1973 and installed a fascist war general in his place who ruled for 25 years?

Q8) Did you learn about the military-industrial complex?

Q9) Did you learn that United States weapons manufactures sell their products to Saudi Arabian armed forces?

Q10) Did you, even once, hear the names Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and/or Raytheon?

Q11) Did you learn that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was highly critical of US capitalism and militarism, not only domestic race relations?

Q12) Did you learn that Prescott Bush (George H.W. Bush’s father and George W. Bush’s grandfather) did extensive business with the Nazis during the 1930s?

Q13) Did you learn that respective death tolls in the Persian Gulf War were approximately 200,000 Iraqi soldiers to 154 American soldiers?

Q14) Let’s combine many questions into one, for the sake of efficiency. Did you learn about a single US-backed coup d’etat? If so, did you learn about the corporate interests behind them?

Q15) Did you, even once, hear the term single-payer health care?

Q16) Did you learn about the political power of the multinational corporation?

Q17) Did you learn about Tesla as he compared to Edison?

Q18) Did you learn that the US government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist?

Q19) Did you learn that Adolf Hitler received positive coverage in the New York Times?

Q20) Did a single one of your social studies teachers take issue in class with the size of the national defense budget?

Q21) Did you learn that almost every US media outlet is owned by a multinational corporate conglomerate with rightwing economic and political incentives?

Q22) Did you learn about net neutrality?

Q23) Did you leave high school with an adequate understanding of the difference between leftism and rightism?

Q24) Did you, even once, hear the names Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels?

Q25) Do you feel you received an adequate education about the Manhattan Project?

Q26) Did you learn that the US government killed (at least) two million Vietnamese civilians, 650,000 Cambodian civilians, and 100,000 civilians in Laos during the Vietnam War?

Q27) Did you learn that the Soviet Union was most responsible of all the Allied nations for defeating Nazi Germany during World War II?

Q28) Did you leave high school with the vaguest notion of the global economic and political functions of the CIA?

Q29) Did you leave high school knowing what the word “apartheid” meant?

Q30) Last question. Per your estimation, reflecting now on your answers in this thread, what would you say was the political bias of your high school social studies education?

Feel free ignore any question that doesn’t apply to the years you were in high school. I tried to incorporate a wide variety of 20th century history as well as plenty of qualitative questions so that as many people could participate as possible. No offense intended.