syllabuscliff
/ˈsɪləbəsˌklɪf/nounVerified NewThe point in a curriculum where official history stops — a decade or more before the present, always just short of the sensitive years.
The course runs out of time in the same year, every year, in every school. The cliff's location is the syllabus's true content.
Etym. — syllabus + cliff; the curriculum ends not at a border but at an edge.
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