Just ooc?

[orichalcum]

Two questions to judge whether I have a bad understanding of common historical knowledge:

1. Do you have any idea who the Borgias were?

2. Did you read Machiavelli in high school?

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

1. The who?

2. Hell NO.

Even if you learned these in non-AP courses, your high school was pretty much all college prep, and a WAY better school than what most of America had. Sad, but it pays to remember that.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

self reply cuz i'm stupid: I see from your response to retsuko that you've already thought about this. I wish I had a suggestion for how to find out what the average levels of high school preparation are like... but I don't. Where I'm at I just learn it from watching a variety of students... and it helps to presume that some of my students came from little Catholic girls' schools in Nigeria... cuz some of them did, and YES this means their prep was radically different. I wish I had a better way to help you gauge this, cuz I know it's maddening!