I am actually amused that you don’t think the government tells schools what to teach.
Well, it does. Your perception of what I think is incorrect. I simply look at the reality in Canada and I recognize that the Canadian type of social contract is different than in the US: the Canadians are tolerant of elements of socialism perhaps because of the different historical experience and harsh climate.
I think that we have a patient who has a cancer and also a heart attack. The threat of a government mandate to teach government pro-death doctrine is a heart attack and the idea that the government has a role to play in education is cancer. You treat the heart attack first because if you don't, you die. But you should also treat the cancer. What I am against is mixing up the two problems, because then you end up treating neither one.