magog83 replied to your post: So I found the complaint I wrote almost two years…

You went to Bangor?? If you mean Bangor, Gwynedd, then so did I! And I did history there too :) Small world.

I still go there actually! I’ve just finished my second year, so it’s dissertation time soon. It’s so weird to find other Bangor students around =D 

So I found the complaint I wrote almost two years ago, when my sister had come home from school in a rage because her history teacher had made a mistake. Hell hath no fury like a history student, as her school discovered. 

Hello,

I am writing with a complaint about the quality of teaching at your school. I am aware that changes have meant that History and Geography are now taught as Humanities, and this can mean that a teacher who knows less about a subject may have to teach it. However, I was shocked to hear that my younger sister who is attending St Matthews is being taught incorrect information. She was asked to carry out a task stating whether certain information on Henry VIII was fact or opinion. She asserted that “Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves” was an opinion, as it is not known who wrote this famous song. Her teacher then told her that this was a fact and insisted that Henry VIII had definitely written Greensleeves. As a student currently studying History at Bangor University, I have taught my sister quite a lot and she knew this to be false, but felt that she couldn’t argue with the teacher too much for fear of getting into trouble. This seems to me to be quite ridiculous. These children should not be being taught inaccurate information in a History lesson. It is not true that Henry wrote Greensleeves, in fact it is widely believed that the style of song was not introduced to England until the Elizabethan period, by which time Henry VIII was dead, it would have taken very little for the facts to be checked. Further there was another task which also contained incorrect information. This standard cannot be allowed to continue. I would like something to be done to ensure that this does not happen again, and that the students are corrected about this matter. This may seem like an overreaction but I would rather that the matter were resolved than let hundreds of children go without the correct historical information which they are entitled to.
I hope to hear from you soon about what has been done to resolve this issue.

Thank You.

Anyway I got a nice reply from the headteacher about how they were sorry and the history teacher had to correct the class in the end. 

So don’t cross me and history wins.