This is a video about a "lecturer" in the UK, but what are the odds that we don't have similar people wound around universities in the US, Canada, etc? History Hit PANICS And Edits Out Horrible Take On USSR But I SAW IT! I don't watch "History Hit" on YouTube, but this makes it look pretty questionable. Here "Metatron" digs up the redacted section of a video that promotes the old USSR and Communism as unfairly treated by the West. If people like her are running loose in the schools it's no wonder that recent generations are so screwed up by propaganda.
She really seems to be a Soviet apologist as well as a propagandist. I don't even think Putin longs for the old Soviet Union, although he does rue the time when they gave up so much territory and resources. He realizes the flaws in the Soviet system, however, and that is why he is rebuilding the Church and returning to at least some of the old "cultural Russia". Bernie Sanders however, who spent his honeymoon in Moscow when it was still part of the Soviet state still longs for the Soviet days and perhaps wants to bring it here if he can. I watched the series Sydney Reilly, Ace of Spies that was put together (I think) by PBS and found it to be a pretty good representation of the founding of the Soviet Union. Reilly was a real guy who was born in Russia (a Russian Jew) who emigrated to the UK in the late 19th century and was one of the founding "members" of the British Secret Service prior to WWI since he was fluent in several languages and knew his way around Europe as well as Russia. He was posing as a British merchant I think in Port Arthur, Russia (then) when the Japanese attacked and destroyed much of the Russian navy. He was eventually killed by Stalin's goons in the 1920s.
On a similar note, I think the "Journalism" courses at the colleges and university around the country and around the world have been taken over by those pushing the Globalist agenda. I think that is why so much of the reporting is unreliable and biased. I do recall people in the media calling Joe Biden a liar (maybe not in those words) during his first run for the Presidency in the 1980s.
I won't include video of the clip here again, but I keep thinking about the movie "Interstellar." Aside from all the rest, it showed that schools were teaching "correct" "science" (e.g. that the Moon landing was a cynical fake) and that the government had to force NASA to operate completely underground to avoid the ire of the woke. Lots of people either bail out or retire from academia and have become free to describe what goes on in the colleges and universities. Others describe how bad things are now in high schools and below as well. I'm no Bible thumper, so not doing religious indoctrination there doesn't bother me. I'd think by high school though there should be a couple of classes that unjudgementally introduce world religions though. None of them are vacuous of morality and life lessons, and aside from that being a "know nothing" isn't good for anyone. But I'm an old crank. I don't think "mainstreaming" the "learning disabled" helps the other students much and it surely denies them educational opportunity. I also have no problem with separating kids into academic and vocational "tracks" by aptitude. If someone has strong aptitudes in both they should be permitted to mix things up. If a kid gets tracked "vocational" but wants some academic courses they should be allowed any they can handle. So basically I think we might be better off doing aptitude testing by 7th grade or so, then follow that up again at maybe 9th grade since kids develop at different rates. There should also be a way to catch reading and arithmetic difficulties and directing those children into remedial courses. If it means holding them back a year, so be it. But you only get one chance (one extra year of schooling on the public dime. I'm not talking about buying a lot of extra classroom space, fancy equipment, etc. since most of this is "sitting on your butt" learning. If the school doesn't have shop and lab facilities for vocational training shame on them, those are worth spending a little money.
I have tried to explain my philosophy on the education system before and I guess I am not good at it as I am always misunderstood. I agree with most of what you wrote @Jacob Petersheim. As a homeschool dad for 22 years, we pulled our kids out of public school for a reason when it was not popular, or even legal in many states, because we were appalled at what was happening in the public education system.