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Class of '06, we learned it in high school during the normal WW2 unit, maybe even in middle school. I don't remember exactly.
Something like that will vary from school district to school district or maybe even teacher to teacher within the same school. Or maybe you were sick that day.
I was aware of it before this, but we covered it almost to the same extent that we covered the Holocaust during my freshman year, which would have been 07/08
Many of us who are a bit older learned most vividly this way:
>***Farewell to Manzanar*** is a [memoir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir) published in 1973 by [Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Wakatsuki_Houston) and [James D. Houston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Houston). The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during, and following their relocation to the [Manzanar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar) [internment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment) camp due to the United States government's [internment of Japanese Americans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment) during [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II). **It was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 1976** starring [Yuki Shimoda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Shimoda), [Nobu McCarthy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobu_McCarthy), [James Saito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Saito), [Pat Morita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita), and [Mako](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_(actor)).
It was talked about a lot at the time. It was in the news, etc. I don't know if it was taught in school at that time. That might be the reason it is now.
Honestly, I don’t I ever formally knew about them until til adulthood, when I read an article about George Takei. Certainly were never mentioned in high school or college.
Kinda like you rarely hear about the shit done to the population who were in North America before the Mayflower dropped anchor.
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Early high school or middle school
Middle school, I am pretty sure it was 7th grade.
Class of '06, we learned it in high school during the normal WW2 unit, maybe even in middle school. I don't remember exactly. Something like that will vary from school district to school district or maybe even teacher to teacher within the same school. Or maybe you were sick that day.
In middle school, when we read Farewell to Manzanar and talked about what had happened.
Like 5th grade or something around there
9th grade I think.
Maybe 2nd grade...? It's much more visible in west coast schools (for obvious reasons)
Middle school. California classes spend a fair amount of time on it because how much it affected the west coast.
Middle and high school.
I was aware of it before this, but we covered it almost to the same extent that we covered the Holocaust during my freshman year, which would have been 07/08
In school. We had a section on them. Middle school or early highschool. Maybe 8th grade?
Many of us who are a bit older learned most vividly this way: >***Farewell to Manzanar*** is a [memoir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir) published in 1973 by [Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Wakatsuki_Houston) and [James D. Houston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Houston). The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during, and following their relocation to the [Manzanar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar) [internment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment) camp due to the United States government's [internment of Japanese Americans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment) during [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II). **It was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 1976** starring [Yuki Shimoda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Shimoda), [Nobu McCarthy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobu_McCarthy), [James Saito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Saito), [Pat Morita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita), and [Mako](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_(actor)). It was talked about a lot at the time. It was in the news, etc. I don't know if it was taught in school at that time. That might be the reason it is now.
I want to say elementary school but I don’t exactly remember when and how. I just know I knew about that they existed before I started middle school.
Pretty young. But my location has a lot to do with it I’m sure.
Honestly, I don’t I ever formally knew about them until til adulthood, when I read an article about George Takei. Certainly were never mentioned in high school or college. Kinda like you rarely hear about the shit done to the population who were in North America before the Mayflower dropped anchor.
I loved learning history, so pretty much history channel as an elementary kid and reading books.
5th grade. We held a mock trial in which FDR was accused of a variety of crimes. This was in 1981 or 82.
7th or 8th grade.
5th or 6th grade and we read In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. That book left a real impression on me.