The thing is, there is no national education system. Each state does their own thing, and even within a single state there is a huge variance based on socio-economic level.

There are excellent schools and there are awful schools all over. There is no one standard.

Each state does their own thing

Kind of…

92% of American k-12 use the same textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, and they’ve always played to the lowest common denominator. Which is often Texas.

If Texas says they won’t buy a history/science/whatever textbook that says _____ then the rest of the 92% who learned from McGraw-Hill books also never learned it from their textbooks.

With the rise of standardized testing, nothing is taught except what’s on the text. If a student gets that done they’re “done” and the focus is on the kids who can’t pass it yet.

Shits fucked and it’s 100% an institutional problem.

And that’s not even getting into how involved Ghislene Maxwell’s dad was with it in the 80s, and his connection to all the spy work and child rape during the same time.

To think people haven’t been manipulating the American education system to get the result (idiots) that they want for generations would be woefully naive.

It’s not about teaching kids to think, it’s teaching them not to question authority.

That doesn’t mean we stop educating, it means we start actually educating instead of indoctrinating.