Children today have too much to learn.

There is no evidence that human cognitive capabilities have increased over the past centuries. Indeed, modern brain sizes are smaller than our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Given that so many children these days are home schooled, or go to private religious schools, I suspect that if in middle school there was a class on surviving the internet that many parents would complain about the content.

Look at how gingerly biology teachers today have to skirt criticizing creationism.

Tell me, do high school history teachers really dive into the dark past of religions?

Children are a battleground for ideological wars.

The religious right have for many decades now been doing their best to undermine modern public education. Complaining about the 1619 project is just one in a long line of boogeymen in regards to education.

People want to be deceived. You read me correctly.

The carneys of old knew this. Donald Trump knows this.

Society in some very large part is about how we fill our time trying to avoid the fact that we are going to die someday, and the inventions we’ve made (e.g., religion) to salve ourselves from that pain are among our most precious fixtures in said society. If you want to challenge those fixtures you’re going to get a lot of push-back.