It is always a bad sign when schools are used to push political and social agendas. In dictatorships, even the sums in the arithmetic lessons are used to spread the official ideology.
In Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi classrooms, for example, multiplication was taught by asking pupils to calculate the casualties from shooting down four US planes, with three crew members each.
We have not yet reached that grotesque stage. But many conservative and patriotic parents worry constantly about what their children are being taught in school. They also fret about what is broadcast by the once respected BBC.
Now these two have come together
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