Absolutely. Equally as important, the socialists wouldn’t have a death grip on the minds of the children of this country. Imho, their influence has been profound.
In fact, Ayers and his ilk have been extremely active in public school cirriculum, the Annenberg Foundation was started IIRC specifically to turn the schools left. Ayers realized in the late 70s or so that they could not have a Soviet style armed revolution, so they decided to follow the gradual way, by indoctrinating millions of children in schools. That was on top of the already socialist style public school system and cirriculum.
The idea that kids need 7 or 8 hours a day of incarceration in order to learn the basics is beyond stupid and anyone who teaches kids or even has kids knows this is a damnable lie. I taught kids a lot (and I’m a high school dropout) and it’s amazing how little acutal instruction time you need. You need determination, interest, love for the kids. That’s it. What the teacher doesn’t know, he or she can learn. Books are all over the place - NON-official textbooks. I used to make up my own learn to read books because the regular ones were so horrible.
I realized in the mid 80s when teaching math (which I profoundly hate) that the text books were - seriously - purposely making it hard to learn, to dumb kids down. Absolute fact.
And get this - just recently there was an article on FR - wish I could find it, meant to ping it - about ADD or ADHD or whatever it’s called. It is CURED by having kids spend more time OUTDOORS in unstructured activity!!!!!!
MY GOD! ADD ADHD is caused by being stuck inside watching TV and/or incarcerated in school! Who’d a thunk it! (Junk food diet doesn’t help, I’m sure.)