Annie
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There is a difference between brainwashing and indoctrination. Brain washing is an intensive program of separating the subject from the familiar into a high stress situation of sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation/overload, and highly repetitive suggestion. We did it to Al Qaeda prisoners.
Indoctrination is a highly structured program of instruction devoid of alternative views. It is remarkably easy for parents to undermine even the strictest indoctrination, that is why oppressive regimes separate children from family into a militarized program. The Nazi youth are a good example.
The American Secular education system employs neither of these tactics but a private religious education always attempts the second.
The bolded puts lie to your claim, I'll assume you haven't seen textbooks in K-12 in years. No, it's not easy for parents to undermine, as the children have the doctrines repeated year after year, in subjects after subjects. Now with Common Core, it will only become more intense.