Beam me to Planet Gore !
This is nothing new. My son graduated three years ago from high school (2005), and I had been giving him daily deprogrammings after school for twelve years prior to that.
It has got to the point that the longer you are in school, the less educated you are.
The whole edifice is coming down around us. Public education is badly broken, and our education professionals must bear a large part of the blame. If you’re an education professional, you probably know even better than I do that its worse even than I think.
I have found this to be true. Teachers get their feelings hurt if you badmouth public education, because they care about it and they feel like they are doing the best they can. But if I shut up and just let them talk, I always find out that however bad I thought it was, its worse.
They should also be made to watch Reefer Madness so they can understand the dangers of marihuana. The scientific basis for both movies is comparable.
As a public school math teacher, I use it too - as an example to explain the importance of critical thinking and careful analysis. I hope that most responsible parents will notice when their children's teachers are adding inaccurate statements or interpretations to the curriculum, and that they will correct any errors at home as soon as they happen. Whether the teacher includes the "Hate America First" perspective on history, a blanket acceptance of the "An Inconvenient Assertion" version of science, or the "Political Correctness fixes for God's Oopsies" view of values, it's our job as parents to make sure our kids are learning both the truth and positive values. [Besides - it's fun to get that call from a teacher in left field after putting a lesson on sexual orientation diversity in the proper context. I imagine the activists would back way off and start teaching content instead of indoctrinating our children if each inappropraite lesson got a strong correction at home.]