[evgen]

Every country does, it is just the case that in most of them you do not vote on the people who set curriculum standards directly. Who decided what would be in your history textbook and how it would be presented? I can promise you that some politician is at the top of that food chain. In some ways the UK is far worse because it is carefully hidden behind layers of ossified class hierarchy and centuries of a toxic mix of arrogance and prejudice.