And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.

  • Flying SquidOP
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    It’s a preemptive justification, hence its existence implies that the authors believe they need to justifying themselves.

    Yes. Because otherwise religious asshole parents try to get them fired for teaching evolution. Do you really not know that?

    • @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I am aware.

      What I’m criticizing is the system which lets parents have that power.

      The teacher preemptivelly justified him or herself because that’s what they have to do because the system is so shit that teachers have to be subservient to ill-educated fairy-believing morons who have zero expertise in the domain of teaching (or Science, for that matter)

      The fault is not in any way form of shape of the teacher, it’s in the AmericanTM Culture and Society - the teachers are as much victims of the Backwards’R’US society as the kids.