<human>: I am an aspiring math teacher and our graduate program requires all education graduate students to take a content reading class. I walked into class the other day, couldn't find a seat quickly, so sat next to an older lady in the class, I'd say about 50 years old. I talk to her a little, since there was some downtime, and learn that her content area is Social Studies.

A while into class our teacher starts reading us a short story, to demonstrate how reading aloud can get the students' attention. The story is about a girl whose mother saved her from the Holocaust by throwing her off of a train as they were taking them away. After the story was over, she told us to talk to our neighbor to see what we got out of the story. 

At this point, it just seemed like a meaningless exercise, but then the future social studies teacher said, "It sounded like her mother was saving her from slavery or something."

Now, inside my head I figured that she was just confused and misheard the story, so I responded with, "Well, no, she was saving her from the Holocaust."

And then she said it. The words that you never expect a grown, assumedly educated person to say: "Well, what is the Holocaust? Is it a religion or something?"

I sat there in stunned silence. I couldn't believe that she had gotten this far into becoming a teacher without knowing what the Holocaust was. There's just no way. I eventually responded with, "It was the murdering of 6 million jews in World War II."

Her response? "Oh. Yeah, yeah."

As if it wasn't a big deal. Seriously. I hope to never work in any school that could possibly hire her. So, reddit, what are the biggest lapses in knowledge that you have seen?

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<bot>: 50 year old woman studying to be a social studies teacher doesn't know what the Holocaust was, and then didn't think it was a big deal after being told what it was.