The purpose of public education is to indoctrinate the next generation.
The only question is whose values they are taught.
If those values are different than the parents then the parents must home school.
(Of course, it kinda sucks that your tax dollars can be used to teach a new generation of people to hate you—but that is the way it is in the land of the apes.)
Indoctrination is a strong word, defined by someone who themselves have been indoctrinated.
The only question is whose values they are taught.
I wonder if one of my heros Hugh Hefner would be able to start a magazine that published SciFi today ?
for example:
Esquire magazine rejected Charles Beaumont’s science fiction story “The Crooked Man” in 1955, so Hefner agreed to publish it in Playboy. The story highlighted straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. The magazine received angry letters, so Hefner responded, “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”