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Public schools--even "nice" ones--are an ideological battleground and/or laboratory, where your kids get caught in the cross-fire and/or experimented on.

• boomboomsubban 7y ago
  Allowing outside bullshit is not going to help this issue.
  • jstewartmobile 7y ago
    That makes it sound like it hasn't been smeared with a dozen different kinds of it already.
• hprotagonist 7y ago
  normally we call this “society”.
• dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  As someone who moved between states with very different ideologies half way through high-school and got to observe the curriculum differences I agree that there is an ideological component to curriculum selection but I wouldn't call it an active battle, just a reflection of the values of the people choosing the curriculum. I assume that in both states the committees that set curriculum are well meaning but small bias over time has a cumulative effect if not controlled for and they probably don't have the political capital to include good coverage of things that are inconvenient for the prevailing ideology. I wasn't ever taught "wrong" but coverage of subject areas that would cause students to ask questions that would be tough for people of the majority ideology to answer was certainly lacking. I hope the purple states are at least a little better since they should have a critical mass of people of the other ideology that keep things from going too far in either direction over time. Edit: And this was in the late '00s, before things became as polarized as they are.
  • jstewartmobile 7y ago
    I am baffled as to why you are being downvoted for a field report. As an old guy, I look back on the history/geography I was taught in public school as a massive load of apparatchik-approved horseshit, and wasted hours of my precious young life.