What did you learn about the Confederacy in school?

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Depended on where the school was.
Either way, I formed my own beliefs and went with them.

Anyone care to guess in which direction those beliefs might lean toward?

Easy.The Lost Cause.

I'm Canadian, so I never learned it in school... never had world history either except once every 6 days in grade 10... but we had history of Quebec and Canada every freakin' second day. I learned a bit about the Confederacy from watching a series of fictional movies called North and South.

In Australian schools, precisely nothing is taught about American history, or politics.

^ Oh that.

I learnt that from watching "Gone With the Wind."

the upshot of our civil war lessons, was that the south ran out of supplies, men, and time.

It was mentioned briefly. We never had much about the US.

In school, we leaarned the the Civil War was primarily about slavery, as well as some economic issues that were not really delved into.

I learned about it from my dad's side of the family which has lived in the are where the Articles of Secession were drawn up and signed. Also, FWIW, my thrice removed grandfather was in the CS Army, and would up walking back to SC from the battle of Nashville with a bullet lodged in his neck.

It was primarily an economic thing, with the Northern States wanting to keep industrialisation in the North, and keep the Southern States as both an agricultural breadbasket and supply of raw materials for northern textile mills.

Sure there were slaves, but the great majority of them were owned by large plantation owners. The further you went into the interior portions of the south, the less prevalent it became. --Sure there were some prosperous 'Dirt Farmers' who owned a few slaves, but for the most part most southerners didn't have them, they couldn't afford them even if they wanted them. --FWIW, there were also Black Freedmen wo were prosperous enough to own slaves, and they had no issue with it at all.

Note that Lincoln's famous 'Emancipation Proclaimation' came about in the middle of the civil war, not in the beginning, as it would have been if Lincoln was dead serious about 'ending slavery'. Delaware and Maryland were Northern Slave States until the proclaimation.

A lot of Souther Apologists say that slavery would indeed have ended after the War, had the CSA won, and their arguments are certainly very plausible, but it's largely hyperbole in the fact that they didn't win.