The flaw in the policy isn't don't use Wikipedia. It's don't use Wikipedia but then do use Google and trust whatever comes up as top search result. That's bad p

The flaw in the policy isn't don't use Wikipedia. It's don't use Wikipedia but then do use Google and trust whatever comes up as top search result. That's bad policy. Policy when I was in high school was don't quote Wikipedia, but feel free to chase sources cited by it, read those, and analyze and quote those. This still has the potential for bias, of course (the editors on Wikipedia will have pruned the set of sources cited by the article), but the meta-goal was to teach students how to search primary sources (read: "Actually get up and go to a library and open a book,") so it achieved that goal even if the books were biased.