Oh but the left obviously the ones pushing their views on children in schools. It seems like any accusation the right makes against the left is in fact true of themselves instead.
But I guess Florida gonna Florida.
Went to highschool in West Chester, Ohio. Was told taught that:
* Rosa Parks wasn't really protesting bus segregation but was simply tired.
* Malcolm X was a terrorist.
* Barack Obama only won in 2008 because he's black (economics teacher really said this).
* slavery was the fault of, in the words of my 9th grade English teacher "big strong" Africans.
Laugh whenever a conservative says teachers are indoctrinating kids with liberal ideals.
Holy cow. I got my education at a wealthy suburban high school in an R+10ish area, and wasn't taught any of those things. Worst thing I ever told was by my 12th grade government teacher was that Bernie Sanders was a communist/socialist. All my social studies teachers were liberal, and my 11th grade US History teacher (who I actually know today for other reasons not related to politics) I suspect was to the left of me.
I went to high school in Montgomery County, Texas, where the GOP rarely dips below 70% of the vote in elections, and we had A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn as required reading for AP US History.
Interesting, isn't A People's History usually considered a left-leaning book? And on Ohio, wow. It was bad in Florida too but I was fortunate to have had a good history teacher (who would often break with some of the books teachings)
But we had an economics class where, as a
requirement to pass the class we had to write a 1000 word paper on why American capitalism is the greatest thing in human history etc and if we did a compare and contrast, you'd fail if you showed any other system in anything other than a 100% negative light. Even as a conservative at the time, the way this was presented was a bit concerning to say the least.
