Yes, that is true for history. What we can do is avoid telling outright lies as part of the indoctrination.
Yes, and we should teach theory as theory, because it is in fact a theory. Then we teach all the evidence for the theory being discussed, and why with all that evidence, it is still not a fact. All that is the truth.
Yes, but we can teach all that with facts. Fact: children in fatherless homes are much less likely to be successful than children who have a mom and a dad in the house. Fact: Many people are exceptions to that generality, so if you are in a single parent home, you can succeed even if others have a head start on you.
Fact: The four steps to avoiding poverty are 1) Don't get pregnant or cause a pregnancy until you are married. 2) Marry someone willing to work to avoid poverty. 3) Work any job you can find. 4) Graduate high school.
Yes, and let's be real. Spending time "teaching," them about their transwoman teacher's sex life doesn't help any of that. "Teaching" them that if they are black, they are oppressed, and if they are white, they are the oppressors, sets them up for failure.
I'm sure in US History classes "outright lies" are told ALL THE TIME.
Who discovered America? I had a friend from Texas (she hated Texas) and she told her nephew that the Native Americans discovered America. Apparently this was the "wrong answer". The answer is "Christopher Columbus discovered America", I mean, WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT.
There were people there when he arrived.
I'm sure theory is taught as theory. Problem is most kids are struggling to understand it, without having to go through a whole "is it theory or not", we teach bit by bit, not "here's everything, deal with it".
We could teach all the evidence of evolution, it'd take years. So we teach little bits. "This is evolution, here are a few facts, next topic"
Yes, some kids who have a hard upbringing will succeed. "many" is a relative term that's not helpful here. Most kids being brought up in inner city ghettos will remain there, they'll continue the cycle of poverty. Politicians will do nothing to change this because they like it. They get rich screwing people out of money for doing a nothing job, and their kids go to "good schools" and they can point to the ghettos and tell their kids "you don't want to be like that, be like me".
Your facts of how to avoid poverty. 1) Don't get pregnant. However we KNOW as a FACT that teach abstinence is more likely to lead to teenage pregnancies. Why tell kids "here are the facts" if the politicians are getting the facts and ignoring them? What kind of a role model is that?
2) Marry someone amazing. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if kids had the SKILLS TO make those decisions? But they don't get taught these skills, but you think they should just possess skills that need to be TAUGHT AND LEARNED.
3) Work any ******* shit job. Again, this is about society. Society teaches kids to be hard working, to be conscientious. Also the way jobs are allowed to function, the way welfare functions, all of this leads to people growing up with a mentality. In inner city ghettos this mentality is missing, schools are not doing anything because the politicians couldn't give a ****.
4) Graduate high school. Yeah, we have a one size fits all education system, pass this pointless test, learn this pointless shit, then when you've shown you can do tests, go try and get a job that has NOTHING to do with said pointless crap.
Do you see the problem here? (The answer is ******* politicians, the electoral system, no democracy, people on the take (politicians) and an unwillingness to see reality, while saying we should only teach reality in schools) Irony.
We should be teaching tolerance. A trans teacher's sex life isn't important, the reason why it's become an issue is because what kids NEED, tolerance, a decent sex education, learning about people being different, isn't being taught, so some people (some, not most) are flapping around trying to figure things out because the politicians are ignoring the whole issue. Again, same problems causing the problems you're complaining about.
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