[seowulf]

It’s supposed to be about reading, writing, math, history...

That's how it was sold. Public education has really always been about indoctrination, even if who gets to do the indoctrinating changes from time to time.

[adorno]

Public education has really always been about indoctrination
Not always the case, but only since liberals took over the education system and created the dept of education. The dept of education should be rightly named, the dept of indoctrination.