[freemint]

> How do you solve the issue when your ideals are rejected by parents (adults) of children being taught?

The best one can do is teaching about the existence of the variety of values (i am against teaching ideals) walk through some of the consequences, discuss it and encourage students to reflect. If the memetic power of values of the parents are so low that knowledge of the existence of values which conflict with them causes them to not be transmitted to the next generation then i say "tough luck". If soley one set of values is being taught and all others are demonized that would be something parents can be justifiably enraged by.

I wouldn't trust the americans education system to get things right anyway but it can get things less wrong.

> (whether democrat or republican?)

I do not care much about this destinction.

> No, my suggestion is to view schools as politically agnostic.

My suggestion is to have schools teach tolerance and give people a rough enough understanding of the different value systems so they do not cause offense because of ignorance. I find this preferable. If existence of different values causes offense to the parent "too bad for them".

> Political beliefs can, and should be, left to adults to decide on their own.

For people to be able to make their own choice, they should be guaranteed the right to learn about other choices. (I am against home schooling, if you can not tell but i am not sure abolishing home schooling would be worth while use of political capital as it is used to plaster over a lot of problems in education system that would have to be fixed first).

[RobertRoberts]

>> (whether democrat or republican?)

>I do not care much about this destinction.

This is the crux of the problem here, American's very much do care about this distinction. So to dismiss it is to not solve the problem.

[freemint]

You asked me for my opinion. I gave it. You Americans need to sort it out on your end.

Not teaching politicized stuff is dangerous as that means a sufficiently large minority screaming loud enough have a mechanism to censor any school content by making it political even if it shouldn't be.

It did offer a solution in my reply. Explain multiple sides, explain other world religions, if students have a good understanding of all compatible with society ideologies they can pick when they are old enough.

[RobertRoberts]

Your opinion can be unuseful for the simple reason it's off topic.

If you aren't American, you simply cannot understand our political issues and to dismiss them as if they aren't important (because they aren't important to you) is disrespectful.