Well my experience in the education system of the United States is not necessarily representative, but I’ve got to say, there are so many resources to learn geography that to blame history classes is wack as hell. All you would need to do is literally open any history textbook and you can easily learn where the Netherlands is. I’m sure virtually everyone had a history textbook, and most probably had to use it for homework or class. There’s not really any excuse. My state is 49th or 50th in education and I only went to public school. It just seems like people blame the education system for their lack of drive to further their education. And to a certain extent, yes, the education system may be to blame - lord knows the US education system needs revamping - but people always seem to blame the United States as a whole if they had a bad history teacher. People are always like, “why didn’t they teach us this in history??” And the truth is, 1. It may not have been relevant to the larger historiography AP narrative that allows an incredibly complex and multi-faceted discipline to be condensed to a level high schoolers can understand. 2. Some things just aren’t your history teacher’s responsibility to teach you. I’m not one of those conservative assholes (or a conservative at all) that thinks america is Infallible, but history is one thing I am passionate about and it seems like a lot of people blame the history discipline, itself, or the United States govt erroneously, when most of the time people should be mad about their shitty teachers.