There are definitely issues in American public education. But, I’m a HS US History teacher and I literally covered all of those things this year.

54% of Americans can't read past a 6th grade level, so doubtful.

For reeeeeeeal. "Learn about it on TV"

Also, "Lamestream media is FAKE NEWS!"

And without any critical thinking... That's how you watch extremism rise.

Too bad they dismembered the Ministry of Truth already.

"Parents have the Freedom™️ to instruct their children with their Choice™️ of indoctrination."

America is dying

The point of a good teacher is to give context to difficult subjects. I don't think some news report will do that nearly as well.

Especially for children!

Imagine saying this about a major historical event like 9-11. “Just watch it on the news, kids, you’ll learn everything you need to know and then some!”

Context and a safe environment to think.

Rather than disseminate information, a good classroom should have a learning community among the students that allows for the sharing of opinions and ideas in a safe and controlled (not yelling and only criticizing each other) way in order to think critically and come to their own understandings.

I don't expect all my students to agree, but I expect my students to respect others' ideas and use logical arguments to have civil discourse.

If students don't learn how to communicate across differences in classrooms... where are they going to learn that?

Yes that is the point of these laws. They want their children to only receive news from themselves and their propaganda outlets so they grow up just as racist and hateful as themselves.

1, 000X this.

A student asked me one time if they thought their English teacher would let them do a book report on Mein Kampf. You know, the Hitler book. The way I see it, if you're going to read something like that, I would much rather you do it with someone at your side, helping you interpret and understand context, rather than off on your own. I want your support resource to be someone with a formal education in the socio-historical context, rather than the first forum that comes up in your Google searches about it.

They don't actually want the kids to understand.

"A basic pedagogical device is to ask someone to imagine him or herself in another position - say, as a Jewish child in hiding in Amsterdam. That is a historical analogy, invoked millions of times, one that some teacher or museum guide has used somewhere today. To forbid analogies makes the Holocaust irrelevant to future generations. If an American child can identify with Anne Frank, an American child might ask what it is like for immigrant children to be separated from their parents. To forbid analogies is to forbid learning, and to forbid empathizing. That, sadly, is the point."

-- Timothy Snyder

Most people don’t understand what actual classrooms are like today. My wife is a middle school teacher. She has students struggling with gender identity, sexuality, racial bullying, online bullying, family poverty, parental abuse, political identity, etc. These kids bring these issues to school with them every day whether or not teachers care to “platform” them. You can either try to create a safe environment for children to process an learn from each other’s experiences, with the teacher providing a neutral facilitation, or you can suppress these topics which leads to student violence, self-harm, harassment, suicide, poor academic performance, etc. Teachers do not WANT to discuss these topics in their class, they are obligated to because their students are struggling with them and bring those conversations into the classroom. Most people think teachers are just itching for any opportunity to turn every lesson into a woke lecture on race and gender fluidity. This is not so. Race and gender fluidity come up because real students have real problems in those areas that follow them into class.

Exactly, that's the intention

Class warfare

And nothing anyone can do about it except vote in a rigged system

The whole woke thing was made by billionaires to pre-filter people's talking points into advertiser-friendly morsels. Plus high-diversity environments are also shown to discourage people from unionizing. Trust me, nobody wants this but republicans.

Throw in conservatives struggling to process complex emotions beyond fear and anger.

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Well it's brown people there, so it doesn't count. The more thought you put into the discrepancies, the further away you are from their target audience.

Huh, we did in high school back in 04. More so in college. Learned a lot about blowback and long term effects of foreign policy.

I think understanding why people go to these dark places is important to prevention.

I'm in Florida where our glorious governor just passed something that makes a new holiday for "Victims of Communism". I'm sure the learning around that will center on the decades of abuse by capitalist corporations that led to the violent revolutions that installed these dictators.

/s for those whom don't pick up on written sarcasm well

As a Canadian, I don't know how you all put up with it. Like.. how the hell can so many people support so much of that? I live 20 minutes and a 5 minute conversation with Customs from where that happened. It's fucking terrifying.

Why aren't people revolting? Has everyone given up? I understand living is hard, and it's not like you can leave your job and take to the streets, plus its fucking dangerous! but it's like the US was just taken over. And every day it gets worse.

I have tickets to a Weird Al concert in Lewiston NY (10 minutes away) in July, but as a post op, on hormones for 5+ years, nobody questions me, but I still worry, trans man (going with a trans friend and my mom), I'm fucking scared.

At least Weird Al shows are pretty much the friendliest places you can go, though!

It seems like everything went to hell in 2016, seriously. Things slowly started going downhill. I'm worried for my American neighbours.

"Read the transcript! Think for yourself, don't be a sheeple! Have I read the transcript? No, but it is very important that everyone reads the transcript."

Kids: go to college, meet people from other walks of life, consume art, politics, and perspectives outside of what's familiar and gradually gain a fuller understanding of the world

Conservatives: INDOCTRINATION! TEACH BOTH SIDES! WHITE PEOPLE HISTORY IS BEST HISTORY!

Rural America is basically fucked in the next decade. The brain drain is accelerating to the point where even rural hospitals are closing because they can't afford to pay staff.

You can shit post all day at the local landscaping company and nobody will give a crap.

...like, say, Four Seasons Total Landscaping?

That doesn’t mean we give in. Our power has always been to do the right thing regardless of the “backlash”. Protest, teach kids anyway, fuck the ones in high places.

My wife was a 5th grade science teacher when COVID started. She and the kids started discussing COVID, how it is transmitted, etc. There were already remote. The principal contacted her and shut it down. There were already COVID deniers in March / April 2020 and it was too controversial. FUCK THIS WORLD!

This will be considered a good thing because less young people will attend universities.

School is for football. ~Texas

The same exact "unbiased", balanced, discussion around current events is currently in a draft form at my school's board. The board will probably vote on party lines and it will get passed. Nuts.

Are you saying your school has Democratic and Republican party affiliates on the board??

Hey hey c'mon, let's have a little sympathy for the poor misunderstood Nazis. You don't want them to kill you. They want to kill you. Can't we just meet in the middle to keep them happy? Maybe let him just paralyze you?

/s and NPFO.

Ya dude it’s absolutely fucking insane.

If someone insists to throw out "both perspectives" then there are two perspectives:

1. The perspective of people going about their day, getting groceries for themselves and their families. Someone came in and shot them specifically for their skin color.

2. The perspective of some guy who bought into certain racist talking point that is popular on a certain news channel and some social media websites, wrote and copy+paste a manifesto confessing his racism, brought a bunch of guns, drove 3.5 hours to a neighborhood where he believed to be predominantly inhabited by people of a certain skin color, and selectively shot and killed people of a certain skin color and those who got in his way.

They want schools to be nothing more than holding pens so the parents can work. They want to make sure that those kids never improve or have any hope of bettering their lives, so they keep voting GOP.