The teachers' unions, for one, pour money into local Democrat campaigns and as a result, a lot of ineffective teachers in Democrat run cities have their jobs and tenure protected.

The Department of Education, a federal and historically (since its inception under Jimmy Carter) Democrat dominated bureaucracy, sets guidelines with the authority to determine which cities and therefore school districts receive how much federal funding.

You can't seriously believe that any Republican/conservative would allow him/herself to be instrumental in replacing traditional American History curriculum with the identity politics based indoctrination, now "standard" of Howard Zinn.

In fact, our entire education system, from K through college, is geared more toward left wing indoctrination than actual education. This is not even remotely bipartisan, it is pure Democrat agenda.

A "well rounded" education these days doesn't produce much in the way of the "three R's" and critical thinking as it did when I went to school in the 1960s and early 1970s, but it sure produces a lot of well indoctrinated left thinkers.

Want more evidence? Do some research on what happens, more often than not, when any noted conservative arrives at a university as an invited speaker, vs when a Democrat does.

A population that is weak in critical thinking is the left's best friend, because it is more susceptible to propaganda.

Unfortunately, a bi-product of the current education system is America's low ranking among developed, and even undeveloped countries in quality of education, which is why so many medical, engineering and other breakthroughs are generally credited to people educated in India, China or other foreign countries.

How do Democrats run the "educational system?" The Constitution gives the Federal government no authority over education. Education is one of those things in the 9th and 10th amendments that are left to the states and the people. Back in the early 1960's, when there was fear that the Russians were beating us in space, the Republican Eisenhower administration got the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) passed. Defense is something the Feds do have authority over. The Feds would pay half of science equipment for schools. It seemed like a good idea at the time but with all that Federal money, the suppliers just jacked up the prices of everything so that now you can't run a school system with local taxes anymore. They don't even try to make education bills sound Constitutional anymore by putting "defense" in the title, and both Republicans and Democrats have come up with atrocities like "no Child Left Behind" etc.

It's the very fact that the left has been gaining traction in this and other areas that makes me wonder if we've become a nation of sheep -- where are those parents and others on e******n days, and throughout the rest of the year when their children come home scholars of identity politics and little else? Aren't they paying attention?

Here in southern California, I see these "progressive" millenials who, when their single digits aged children are acting a bit too obnoxious, pleading with them, rather than telling them, to desist.

It all makes me wonder if I'm missing, or have missed something.