I teach in a private Christian school! I did an abridged economics lesson last week when I had some time left over after my algebra class. I gave one girl-the same one, in fact!- a $100 bill. By the end of lesson she was no longer the “evil rich” but the one buying the goods and services of the others in the class. I asked what her tax rate should be, and one boy said 90%. It was pretty easy to show how our little classroom “economy” shrank rapidly. Man, I looooove my job!
BTW-I got that $ back :)
This is how the public schools worked when I went through.
Unabashed patriotism and free enterprise were the order of the day. Of course, most of the teachers had grown up in the depression and WWII years.