[gumby]

My kid, in his first year in a US school, apparently asked the history teacher in class, "Wait, didn't XXX happen in the fashion YYY?"* and was told it wasn't taught that way. I asked her about this in the parent meeting and she said indeed, what he had learned was correct but she needed to teach things in the approved way so that the students would pass the standardized tests.

This isn't meant to imply the US is in some way particularly evil about this -- all countries have some sort of origin myths. This is more a comment on the effect of state level standardized testing.

* actual issue wasn't race-related so I elided it.