politics and education

my son is writing a paper for his smart but lefty high school history teacher. the subject is the cold war and he's saying it was a failure because it hurt so many people and made the world hate us. fair enough. but as we discussed it (he wanted to say we spent too much on defense, money that could have gone to "other things" like "fighting racism") it occured to me, hey, what about the nuclear bomb? during the cold war we were scared shitless about being bombed. might have made us a bit paranoid when it came to dealing with "nationalistic revolutions with merely a communist flavor" (like vietnam, he said).

ok. seque. i've been listening to my pandora station of folk rock. when i was in high school, yes, during the vietnam war, the coolest music was "underground" folk music also known as protest music. as i listen to it now i see that it assumes that WHAT IS TAUGHT IN SCHOOL was pro-american, pro-war, and probably pro all the bad shit like racism, but let's stay to the issue of war. so, "we" the boomers (supposedly... i also know people whose progressive high schools were already fashionably marxist) were taught by straight-laced patriotic americans. fair enough.
maybe some of us were.

fast forward seque. so now, the EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT is solidly liberal-left. they gleefully re-write (re-teach?) history with this slant -- that racism indicts the entire pre-1960something american world. that and patriarchy, etc. they don't teach wars (much), preferring to praised eleanor roosevelt, comparing her contributions to churchill's. excuse me?

so there you have it.
patriotic (supposedly, not sure i believe that) teachers in the 50s-60s
spawn the unpatriotic boomers (mostly)
boomers become the teachers
indoctrinate their students with environmentalism, feminism, pacifism, all the isms

what happens next?

will the "underground" music (south park?) rebel?
south parkians call earth day the brainwashing festival

so there you go