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>Education is funded largely by local taxes, and local tax revenues are being gutted, so there isn't much that can be done here without nationalizing public education.

This should be the case. Having each state decide it's education is in the long term more dangerous than having each state have it's own army.

Imagine if half the country had textbooks that made the Confederates out to be misguided but well meaning... oh wait.

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Yep. I teach in a rural school in the South. We still have Social Studies teachers claiming the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. It's really damn frustrating.

Though textbooks? We haven't had textbook updates in years at this point. Since I was in the school, and I graduated 10 years ago.

I have friends and in-laws Who still maintain that. Honestly the myth of the lost cause was drilled into the culture for a hundred years.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’m from the south and was taught as a child that the confederates fought for “states rights” and slavery was a subplot. Many years later I realized that was bullshit. I wished I could go back in time and call my teacher on it.

It was fought over states rights. Their rights to allow slaves.

Misleading, but not exactly untrue.

I think the current system leads to too much stagnation. Let each state be a laboratory of democracy and hope the winning ideas spread instead of mandating a top down approach.

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