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Kind of...
92% of American k-12 use the same textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, and they've always played to the lowest common denominator. Which is often Texas.
If Texas says they won't buy a history/science/whatever textbook that says _____ then the rest of the 92% who learned from McGraw-Hill books also never learned it from their textbooks.
With the rise of standardized testing, nothing is taught except what's on the text. If a student gets that done they're "done" and the focus is on the kids who can't pass it yet.
Shits fucked and it's 100% an institutional problem.
And that's not even getting into how involved Ghislene Maxwell's dad was with it in the 80s, and his connection to all the spy work and child rape during the same time.
To think people haven't been manipulating the American education system to get the result (idiots) that they want for generations would be woefully naive.
It's not about teaching kids to think, it's teaching them not to question authority.
That doesn't mean we stop educating, it means we start actually educating instead of indoctrinating.
I don't know how other school systems did things, but for me not every class every year was 100% straight out of the textbooks. Some certainly were, usually math subjects or science could be.
It's anecdotal but I often find the "why weren't we taught x" type of statements, I remember learning whatever thing in school. I know people will forget stuff and just say they never learned it (I mean, kids do that all the time IN school let alone a decade later) but there's got to be bigger differences than just public vs private. (I was public)
I don't know what though.
You had me until you got to a private school, which is largely affiliated with a religion. Those cess pools preach mumbo jumbo to impressionable minds and pretend it's factual.
Me:
You:
Strong argument for public education...
I like to think I got the benefit of said private school, while thankfully the religion didn't stick past the age of forming critical thinking skills.
Further helped that I pursued a degree in science afterwards.
I did have a number of instances throughout my college career where I realized how many others, likely from public schools previously, struggled in classes that I saw as review from high school, so I'm also thankful for the quality of education it provided. It also gave me more perspective on christianity having read a decent chunk of the Bible over those k-12 years.. More well rounded perspective is never a bad thing. Now I'm just better equipped to recognize the bullshit.
I don't take exception to learning about religions and their histories. I took an Eastern religion class in college and quite enjoyed it. The difference is that it wasn't presented as factual but as an explanation for cultural and societal behaviors.