Coming up on Linda Vestor show (FOX) is story about some HS teachers who actually showed the video of the murder of Nick Berg.........schools/teachers? to be IDed.
My main objection to that is that the kids/parents had no opportunity to opt out and the fact that is was probably used to spin an anti-war agenda rather than let the kids know the reality of the Muslim religion and the hatred they foment.
If individual kids are curious to the point they want to see it, they can download the video on the net. They don't need to see this stuff in school.
This is really a strange observation, but I don't think they promoted these sorts of things (sexual agendas, real-world violence) in the state schools in communist Russia. They did indoctrinate kids into communism though, but presented it in a positive/patriotic light and not in an atmosphers of fear. Some of the kids learned that from home when people disappeared into the gulags and otherwise though, but not in school.
When I was in jr high, my girlfriends found a picture in a travel book showing a young man just after he had been beheaded for thievery or whatever in some Muslim country. It haunted me ever after whenever I remembered it. At least that guy lost his head in one quick swoop as he was still in a sitting position with blood spurting up like a fountain. If one of my teachers would have forced students to look at such a thing, I think heads would have rolled.
My tenth-grade biology teacher was quietly fired for teaching about HETEROSEXUAL ONLY sex in biology class. I hope my parents didn't have anything to do with that (discipline would have sufficed), but obviously some parents or the school board getting wind of it caused his dismissal. How things have changed! That was back in the 50's.
We learned more factual things in school without their being colored with teachers' personal views. We got better educations, too. Everybody who didn't drop out by hs graduation could actually read and write!