Ah, yes, the good old indoctrination that all authoritarian governments loved this last century.
When you get politics and ideologies to be taught in school, you're doomed. It's sad to see the US turning into this.
When you get politics and ideologies to be taught in school, you're doomed. It's sad to see the US turning into this.
You're conflating historical bias with a STEM field that is arguably as important as reading in modern civilization.
This is an attempt to change the political landscape in the future through indoctrination. And it will not stop here.
And let me tell you that I've been kind of indoctrinated by hardcore left wing history teachers. They wouldn't stop at teaching, they actively tried to make us think that the left was inherently good and the right bad. Sometimes it even backfired when they were exposed by someone who knew about the topic.
Hell, one of my teachers even whitewashed a terrorist group that was still active killing people back then.
This may be an extreme example but that doesn't change anything. Bad history teaching is not an excuse to bring more ideologies into school.
- Columbus was a smart guy that was the only one at the time that thought the Earth is round. He was laughed out of royal court because everyone knew the Earth was flat. (Laughed out because he calculated the size incorrectly, turns out.)
- Poor ol' United States was just sitting there minding its own business when out of nowhere the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor w/o provocation. I didn't find out about any embargoes until years later.
- Colonialism: those natives aren't going to civilize themselves.
I could go on, but the ideology I was taught last century is easily summarized as, "America: Fuck Yeah!" I think a bit of self-examination is warranted on whether or not the fecal output of the U. S. actually does stink. Like whether or not we overly fetishize the nuclear family, for example.
That's not an ideology, it's bad teaching. And while not knowing your history is bad and can affect the way you see the world and hence your ideology, it is not nearly as bad as directly indoctrinating kids to make them think exactly what you want. I mean, we're talking about identity politics in math, not a history lesson that missed some points.
There were certainly teacher who would say the last one not even that long ago. It's unacceptable practically nowadays because of wokeness.
And yes, that is ideology. Actually, thats almost exactly the essence of ideology. Worldview!=Ideology.