I guess I took the bait . They make terrible decisions time and time again.
Public education seems to focus on teaching students to perform behaviors.
This is obviously not all bad. Children need to learn to read and use times tables etc. However, the ability to intelligently question what goes on around us and inside us, is ignored. Politically Correct behavior is the goal. The class was going over one of the earliest examples of correspondance believed to have been written by American slaves, although the specific authors were not known.