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Originally Posted by racehorse
my history class is bursting at the seams with ignorance, it makes me feel awfully pretentious but if it carries on much longer i'll probably drop it. just being in the room is starting to become intolerable due to questions like:
"if the SPD means the german socialist party then why aren't they called the GSP?" - and "so were the nazi's on the extreme left then, miss?". these are 17 year olds, doing a level history in a selective school.
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I'd suggest that you shouldn't lose heart and keep it up knowing that it's you who'll get the best qualifications in the end. Having said that, I know someone who had to drop their A level history because he knew enough to disprove too much of the syllabus.