I've been wondering was social studies doesn't get that much attention in schools as math, reading/writing and science. I think I know why, or at least have a better idea of it. It's because social studies makes us feel bad. It disrupts our happy view of the world and our place in it. No one get hurt or upset by addition, grammar skills or knowing why water evaporates...but the formation of our country, genocide, and all the other horrible things humans have done....no wonder we want to just forget it. But we can't, or we won't learn from it, there would be no progress.