Things they were taught are often no longer taught.
I remember civics class (this was middle school). One of the things our civics teacher made us do was watch some of George (Horrible) Bush (I have a strange fondness for W, he reminds me of my dad, that same dopey expression coupled with some sneaky awesomeness/lack thereof depending on the situation, but I always kind of liked him and felt he got really "attacked" sometimes unfairly by the liberals. Like, I watched that movie by that creep (M. Moore), with the scene about how W "reacted" as he was reading to kids in kindergarten, and then later without commentary.... I would have done the EXACT same thing, honestly, there was a brief whispered discussion with the secret service, and I'm quite sure, I, myself would not have LEAPED out of the seat and started screaming, "Terrorism calls! I must leave you now, we're all going to die!!!!!!!!!" etc.)
But, I digress. We were made to watch some of Horrible's ads.... The first one where he promised to lower taxes, and the second one, where the commercial was identical, except for the fact that he left out the "No new taxes" part as he had indeed raised taxes. It was a subtle but effective message: "Do not let the politicals fool you" and there was a ton of discussion about elections generally, but also politicians generally, and the ways they could be covert, corrupt, etc. I was in public school at the time.
In private school, during "WWII history" our teacher made us all play Diplomacy as we learned, also an "object" lesson on world wide politics an it made learning so much more fun. LOL, we all HATED each other by the end of the module, but it was sheer genius IMO. Every day we would "submit" our moves and the teacher "calculated" them overnight and posted them on the white board, it was great.
Not sure it's a fair comparison since AZ sucks for education, but "common core" is just... So, so wrong. And yes, the kids are being propagandized. The overfocus on the latest school shooting just makes me angry. It's not that it's not OKAY for kids to have political opinions and movements, and ideas, but I don't feel they should be instilled by staff OR the media and etc. It's just all about rendering the second amendment useless, and I don't believe kids should have to "front" a political movement, much as I was annoyed at Jenny McCarthy's use of her kid for "autism" and "anti-vaccines." I hear her kid is "better" (he probably grew up and moved out) and yet.... Still shilling (although less) for the anti-vaccine movement.
If you want to not vaccinate your kid, well, that's your business, I guess, and to a degree I think it should be the parent's personal rights and etc., but here we have a lot of "illegal" kids lodged in schools that don't require a birth certificate (private, obviously, and I have heard tales about this from other parents, so I don't know how accurate it is.
So yeah, IDK about the latter, but certain matters are a public health issue, especially as they spread. I so hate seeing a correlation (about when vaccines finish, say around age two, when many vaccines are given, well, that just
happens to be the time autism
strikes, generally, so parents will often confuse a correlation with causation, and I don't love the public health fallout, to put it mildly. The unvaccinated are tools for spreading disease, and the percentage in the US has climbed a fair amount. It's a shame. I don't have a solution for any of it, but I will say that education today is nothing like it used to be.
Ugh, sorry for the rant. Well, I'm just glad I have my nic stashed, but we need to do more, and speak up MORE in so many arenas. As adults.
Ann