Zimmerman, sociopathy, and systemic failure

[Betty Karlson]

29. Good question, but is starts with the basics:

Textbooks.

Textbooks that BY LAW are not allowed to talk about the existence of LGBT until the children are 13 / 14 years old.
Textbooks that introduce the notion that all sex, ANY sex is wrong until you are married
Textbooks that obfuscate the misery of slavery, and textbooks that claim the Civil War was started over freedom(TM)!
Textbooks of basic economic theory that contain a hidden message of "immigrants are coming for low wage jobs".
Textbooks that harden the notion that hard work will get you out of poverty (basic reality: it won't. The American Dream is dead or at least comatose right now.)

Combine those with the standardised tests where a child's answer is tick-a-box right or wrong, not a degree of hand-written right, and a teacher who wants to correct textbooks errors and symplifications is left to saying:

'When we do the test, please tick the box where it says abstinence prevents pregnancy. When you are studying this subject with your special buddy, please consider the use of a preservative. Now let me demonstrate with a foot and a sock how that might work, because this school doesn't want me to demonstrate an actual preservative. Also, if you want to pass the test just tick any answer that makes abortion sound evil. And pay no attention to the overabundance of African-American sounding names in the questions about abortion."