The Supreme Court essentially banished religion from the public schools, and the World Wars and Vietnam made patriotism pass . These are not harmless sections which get students to think about modern issues but blatant attempts to shape their opinions as well. Sandra Stotsky, a doctor of education at Harvard, in her book Losing Our Language , even claims that education has been taken over for political ends, to the extent that goals like teaching students to read are often secondary to the goal of cultural enlightenment. It's a dangerous trend. We should then take lessons from cultures such as the American Indians, because they supposedly lived in harmony with nature and practiced tolerance which we lack never mind that these cultures each had their own dark side.
Modern students spend a lot of time learning about the sins of America.
It would be better to have no political messages at all in the school curriculum than to spread doctrines which teach Americans to be hostile to America. If we complain to teachers, school administrators, and textbook-approval boards, we may be accused of simply wanting to indoctrinate students with our own values instead of theirs. That's not democracy. Let's put pressure on the public schools to become completely non-partisan, and focus again on the basic skills of literacy and critical thinking, along with honest and impartial knowledge of our nation's history. Our educational system should simply present its material impartially and let students form opinions on their own, when they're able to understand and think for themselves.