it’s not about ignorance. The point of the teaching was to learn...

it’s not about ignorance. The point of the teaching was to learn about the revolution itself - it turned history on its head just as the French Revolution did. There were likewise pivotal moments in English history that changed the power of the monarchy. The point was not to look at the ethnic origin or religion of each of those involved.

at high School level the curriculum is comparatively superficial and if you decide you find it interesting you can go on to study it in depth. There are many ways in which history taught at school was inadequate. Same with geography.

what you are doing is taking a retrospective view of school and picking on one area because for some reason it has piqued your interest. But in doing so you are ignoring the point of the teaching. the world, when you were growing up, was a very different place and the curriculum is always going to be shaped by that context. So let’s consider - fresh from war, images of concentration camps, cities bombed to nothing, the division of Europe cording to political ideology, orphaned children, building a wall between the east and west, nuclear horror, the developing space age, growth, rebuilding cities,

we didn’t get taught about how women were asked to step into factories and formerly male jobs while the men were bundled off to war and then told to go back into the kitchen and baby making when the men returned. We didn’t get taught about so many things that we might learn later. It’s not a conspiracy it’s just because there is lots to learn.