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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Please show us where public school students are learning an accurate account of history, or really anything at all. Because if this were the case, you wouldn't have half the anxiety on this board that you do.[/quote]

The anxiety is based on falsehoods. Come into the ordinary, blue-collar, middle-class public school I teach in. Gasp, there are two lesbians among our staff! Happily married (not to each other) and completely uninterested in children in any inappropriate way. And you know what we teach? Reality. 
Our history lessons don't go overboard in any direction! Shocking, right?! We're actually teaching a balanced account of historical events, using primary sources that I'm sure someone must've used a time machine to plant. We even pledge allegiance to the flag every morning. We write letters to vets. We explain both the importance of Columbus's sailing and the effects it had on the people already here. We teach the reasons for the Declaration and the actual words in the Constitution. Crazy stuff, right?! 
Our math lessons don't include word problems about Larla's two moms or the number of Bibles sold by the best-ever-president Trump. They teach math, lots and lots of math.   
Our reading lessons include authors from all over, just like the students in our class. Mein Kamp isn't particularly popular, but they're free to read it at home if they wish. As a matter of fact, if a student was reading it at lunchtime staff wouldn't interfere. We also wouldn't interfere with students studying the Bible, the Torah, or Quran or any similar text. We just won't force to do so (unless it's a part of a curriculum that is known to the public). 
Children aren't asked write essays on why they should seriously consider changing their gender or why America is the only civilized country to ever exist. There is, however, a lot of 'What I want to be when I grow up' or 'Which school lunch is best? Explain why'. 
Alas, our Science classes are not teaching that the Earth is flat, nor are we telling our children to ask a carrot's permission to eat it. We are teaching about photosynthesis, food chains, the periodic table, the water cycle, weather, matter, force, etc.  I do know a teacher who struggled to explain animal adaptations to her class, however - she was homeschooled by her Christian mother and is struggling to understand.

Nearly everything that people like PP think they know about public schools is just plain wrong. Speaking of public education as a whole - and of course there is someone, somewhere, something that is odd or weird or wrong or crazy out there because this is a big country, but those are definitely exceptions and not the rule - our goal is to provide the best possible balanced education to every child that we meet. We are very aware that their parents and guardians fall on both sides of the political spectrum and everywhere in between. We're not indoctrinating anyone. The truth is that merely being around other people creates a wider worldview than some parents want for their children. I'm so sick of hearing uninformed, parroted opinions like the one quoted above! And I don't want tax dollars to go towards schools that encourage ignorant self-contained citizen bubbles! [/quote]

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