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I’m a teacher. Schools are little more than indoctrination camps. It’s becoming increasingly difficult keeping out that which you want kept out of the curriculum and teaching that which you want to teach, what you believe needs to be taught.

This is another of the many signs that we are becoming a full-on totalitarian police-state. The tendency for schools to stop teaching and start indoctrinating is one of the symptoms that speak about the disease.

By the way, I went to school in the late 60's and 70's ann although they tried hard to indoctrinate me (for example, about how the progressive tax was so 'fair'), I emerged briefly liberal (primarily about pot) and then quickly shifted to conservative (primarily about guns and taxes). So it didn't take.

With all the federal standardized testing, benchmarks, and standards, we have a de facto 'national curriculum' now. I spent 6 or 7 days over the course of the 2011-12 school year along with 13 other teachers from around the ISD for our grade level, writing social studies assessments for each of the 7 units in our grade level and had to align with the national standards. The social studies curriculum is on-line and every teacher in the state will be required to use it as their main text by the 13-14 school year I believe it is. This is K-12 curriculum. And this is being repeated in every state with every subject.

If this is not bad enough, I found this out from the head honcho of social studies of our ISD because he ran the "workshop": In our state, the only time the Constitution is studied in school is in 5th grade (one unit under U.S. Government) and again in the 8th grade. Another teacher and I were seemingly the only teachers concerned about the fact that the foundation of our country is taught in only two grades, 5th and 8th.