Remember when schools still had mimeograph (sp?) machines? I was given a mimeographed handout way back in school in the late ‘60- early ‘70 timeframe that listed similar communist goals for us students. That list in particular was from 1917, I remember because it was my grandmother’s birth year. At that time the school actually felt we should be aware of the agenda being pushed in parts of our nation. I kept that thing for at least 35 years. Somehow it’s gotten lost in one of my last 4 moves but I brought it up to school boards, teachers and my children as they grew up. Never hurts to let kids know an agenda like that. Surprisingly, knowing there is an agenda keeps kids paying attention.
That is a most excellent observation!
I notice we don't seem to have "Agendas 101" classes in the sense of learning to identify covert and overt agendas.
Discovering and recognizing agendas is key to separating fiction from fact in this world and eternal vigilance requires this ability, so perhaps we should.
Do you think parents (or teachers, for that matter) could handle it, if the instruction began in middle school?
It shouldn't just be a home school thing. (It wouldn't be fair to those with parents who can't teach it.)