Teachers have always tried to liberally indoctrinate students.
It was the early fall of 1932.
My dad was a 15 year old sophomore.
Every day his history teacher would give a long spiel on how great FDR was.
My dad was raised in a staunch conservative, Republican family who could trace their party loyalty back to Lincoln.
In fact my dad’s grandfather recalled seeing Lincoln in the flesh when he was five years old.
Anyway as my dad told it to me.
The history teacher’s classroom had a lot what he called French windows meaning there were a lot of small panes.
My dad got a hold of fifty or so Hoover stickers as my grandfather was active in party politics and he plastered most of the windows with stickers.
Evidently it didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out it my dad did it.
My dad was kicked out of school for three days but not before my grandfather went to the principal and gave him a piece of his mind.
I remember a teacher in junior high back in 1969 showing us a graph on a blackboard representing the economies of the capitalist west and communist nations. He simply put and up and down wave pattern across the graph and said this was the boom and bust cycle of capitalist economies. He then drew a line well below the wave pattern and said this was the communist economy currently but instead of going up and down he drew it steadily rising and at some point in the future it would surpass the capitalist economies and rise well above it. As the decades went by I occasionally thought about this starry eyed true believer and if he ever saw the light.
My grandfather would have liked your grandfather. When I was in high school he gave me to read his “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegy. It was given to my grandfather and signed by J.C. Penny. I bet J.C. Penny would have liked your grandfather.