They don’t even teach WWII or VietNam!! You expect them to teach Twain?? What a damned joke.
Buck Finn is the essential hero the orphan who can drink and smoke and stay out all night and doesn’t have to go to school. He fishes and lives in a shack
He says what he thinks. How it comes out is just a matter of words
He has a good heart
Of course they struggle with him