Quote:Most of the kids I talk to who come in to my place of business know plenty about the American Revolution, the civil war, slavery, and more. .  And they're kids from public schools.  My own kids know plenty too--and they too attend public schools.  In fact I know what much of the kids in at least one class is being taught--because my wife is a teacher.   I know the kids in my wife's Government class can name the first ten amendments to the US Constitution--and I know a couple of people who went to fancy private schools that can't do that.

 

I do know at least one kid who isn't learning much in public schools--but that's because his grandparents coddle him.  (They're conservatives, for the record.  And they don't think he needs an education.  They see 'education' as 'liberal indoctrination')

 

Do they coddle him by giving him safe spaces and play-doh?

 

Seriously, I've heard plenty of young men and women that come through my spaces every day say things that are unbelievable.  Some even try to point out how "communism isn't a bad thing".  They also don't seem to understand or get that our country is NOT a democracy and fail to really understand why.

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