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I remember my 8th grade teacher was obsessed with the 2000 election and pretty much asked us to see who our parents want to vote for. I told this to my dad and he was pretty annoyed about it and told me to tell her to fuck off, which I didn't do, but should have.I remember when the Ukraine situation started they had all these pieces on the news of “how to explain the situation to your kids” and they meant like teenager which I thought was odd. Then I saw reports of how High Schools were “handling this” (what? There’s always been wars going on in other countries, why is this so important for kids?) and these teachers were pretty much having kids watch CNN in class instead of actually teaching and I thought holy shit were in trouble if that’s what’s going on in schools. High Schools seem to have become just day care for teenagers. I was in high school when 9/11 happened and the schools didn’t do shit about “how do we handle this?” With weeks of classes and even special support groups dealing with it.
But no, Russia / Ukraine was treated as a very serious issue that meant it became all the learner about in certain classes. Because teachers are lazy and used it as an excuse to fuck off and have CNN teach the kids.
It's not like my dad was some political pundit, but to see him question why my teacher wanted to know that information always stuck to me. That's 24 years ago when it wasn't as divided and crazy as it is now. I can't imagine what bullshit these kids have to hear today from their politically active teacher.