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Political Factoid
A growing number of conservatives*
actively campaign to inhibit teaching of:
- History (world history, American history, regional history)**
- Civics
- Citizenship
- Government
- Social studies
- Social Behavior
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Reasoning skills
- Art and music appreciation, drama
- Health (body and sexual development)
- Survival skills
- Home skills
- Financial skills (budgeting, balancing a checkbook, credit and interest)
- Communications skills (language, spelling, reading, writing, composition, speech, ...)
- Sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, ...)
- Geography
- Current world events
- Preparing kids for the adult world
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Active right-wing politicians and voters
(who generally call themselves Republicans)
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for fear it might bring out feelings of guilt.
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