The curriculum back then at least concentrated on reading, writing, history, snd math without social justice intertwined.
In the 1990s, I was taught about authoritarianism and how awful Hitler, Mao, and Stalin were all in the same class, I nicknamed my teacher back then the Crazy Greek, because he was of Greek Descent and probably despised both the Communists and the Fascists because of it. I miss those days.
Exactly.
I do believe (in the case of History, Civics, and reading/writing) that the woke curriculum interferes with those.
But with things like math, one bloody second spent teaching kids about “two mommies” is a second taken away from something that counts.
I view the degradation of the military exactly the same way.
It is a zero-sum game. If you are spending an hour teaching a sailor about the correct gender pronouns, that is an hour less you can spend teaching them about ship-handling and damage control.
It counts in all areas in that respect, K-12, college, military, and professional education.