True, but the saccharine public school textbooks aren't much better in whitewashing American history, glossing over western genocide and exploitation, etc.

However, most public school teachers don't even open the textbooks. When I was substitute teaching in eastern Kentucky in the early 1990s, all they did was have kids memorize answers to tests so the teachers wouldn't get fired or the schools lose funding.

It's all just warehousing the kids, holding them back in lockstep with the slowest kids in the class, even though a famous study in the 1980s, that aired almost daily for months on the Kentucky learning channel, found that when there were five or less students per teacher, working only two hours a day, kids were moving up a grade every TWO WEEKS.

All the rest is warehousing children, keeping the kids stalled in school so the schools can collect education funds.