That's not accurate, no public school in the nation is pushing kids to become political activists. Informing students about history is essential so we don't repeat it, as we are unfortunately seeing right now with the actions being taken by the Trump administration. Just because the facts of history make.white people look bad doesn't mean we shouldn't teach it. The real goal here is to try and rewrite textbooks to keep students from learning about these past atrocities and events so they can be repeated. Also, it's a well known fact that the states that score the worst in the country academically for the most part are red states. The actions the Republicans take in attempts to defund public education and try and force universities to bow to their agenda is all because Republican politicians know that if they can keep these young people uneducated they can convince them to vote for them. The war on public education is real and it's scary. TEACHING HISTORY ACCURATELY IS NOT POLITICAL. ITS SIMPLY PRESENTING THE FACTS.

Reminds me of the saying, you may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you.

Education is inherently political.

I'd hazard to suggest that politics is one way in which society organizes and tries to reconcile its collective biases. Education seeks to systematize them.

Some of the Soviets took this idea to its extreme.

In public schools, there's a lot of very poor quality teaching going on, even in vocational classes. And I'm talking about "good" public schools, not inner-city hellscapes.

For instance, a young person I know was taking a cooking class. It was overall not terrible, but:

Another example - I took a woodworking evening class at a public high school recently. I had high hopes, but the actual teaching was absolutely miserable.

Good teaching, with good, high quality teachers, is very rare in the public school system.

Do you think any worthwhile lessons are conveyed through AP History courses?

We face a similar situation in Singapore. Let me zoom in on financial literacy. We do have those classes, but we sound like a broken record since the main thrust of these lessons tends to be spend below your means and differentiate between needs and wants for both primary and secondary school students. Like duh. How often do you want to repeat the same mundane stuff?

But as a teacher at the frontlines, I dare say that our curriculum lacks the space to incorporate all these useful things. Just this term alone, I had to ensure that all my form class students completed an online lesson on 1) drug prevention, 2) AI literacy and 3) water conservation. Their minds are bombarded left right and centre, and I’m barely surviving in this cramped system myself haha