Japanese Internment

My father’s family was sent to an internment camp, so I kinda always knew about them. I also grew up in an area with a lot of Japanese-Americans, so there were always talk about them (pilgrimages, memorials, etc). I don’t remember when we formally studied it in school, probably about Jr. High in our California history class.

Nope. I learned it as an elementary teacher (my first year out of college) when I bought The Bracelet and Baseball Saved Us picture books to read to my students.

Yes I learned about it in high school. It was a pretty brief mention though.

Yes I learned about it in AP US History in 11th grade.

My father (born in 1931) had his best friend sent to camp, and I met his friend as a kid, so knew about them. We read Farewell to Manzanar in tenth grade, but my Chinese-immigrant teacher made clear it was because he had chosen to highlight it and that it was not part of the standard curriculum.

I honestly don't remember when I learned about it. Probably touched on it in AP History in high school but I don't recall.

I'm continually shocked at what I never learned that took place relatively close to where I grew up - the Tulsa Massacre, for example. And I read just recently about a horrible lynching (not that any of them were good) that took place in the little town in Missouri where I went to college.

I did not learn about the internment until I had finished undergrad and was taking a couple classes to bolster my application for graduate school. I remember being incredulous and angry. My professor of Psychology of Women included it in her syllabus. We had some readings and a film. So, not through all those years of history, and only in an elective course in a different discipline. I did not learn of the immigrant raids in the 1950's with a slur in the name, where Mexicans (including many American citizens) rounded up and dropped off deep in Mexico on the hope they would not be able to return, either.

I went to school with a girl who parents were in internment camps. I don’t think that we studied that shameful practice in school.

I grew up near a relocation camp in Wyoming. It was taught thought all all of the grades. I remember field trips in elementary and junior high. And more thorough lessons in high school.

I learned it in HS, not sure if I did earlier or not. I know that it is also in our current upper elementary curriculum cuz I have taught it as a sub.

I live in CA where many of the Japanese lived and were interned so it is also part of our state's history.

Public schools in California and was covered extensively. My kids definitely learned about it in both middle school and high school.

I'm pretty sure the first I ever heard of it was when I read "Snow Falling on Cedars" when it came out in the early 90s.

I learned briefly in school, but I can't remember if it was in class or on a field trip to Fort Ontario which was used as an internment camp.

If I can remember correctly, it was briefly brought up along with Pearl Harbor. That was many moons ago. I'll have to ask grandson.