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> We learned every country and a capitol, every mountain range, desert, ocean and river across the entire globe.

This sounds like a very shallow style of geography, did you not do any social geography?



He did say 7th grade.


7th grade is about 13 years old, right? I think I did social geography when I was about 13, I definitely wasn't any older 14 because I didn't do GCSE geography.

Edit: In case you were interested this[0] is an example of the kind of stuff we learn when we're 11-14 in Britain.

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zrw76sg


I am British (31 now).

I can't remember year 7 and 8 geography very well, though that all sounds familiar.




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