Not just poor kids. By turning middle class classrooms into propaganda centers instead of education centers, they lower the analytical ability of an entire generation, as well as their knowledge of real, rather than progressively imagined, history. Of course, that makes them easier to turn into dems as well.
First, the teachers’ union. Then educational standards.
Yes. I graduated in one of the last classes before the National Education Association took over the local school.
A huge difference in standards and outcome followed. Not for the better!