My mom, aunt, uncle, and sister are all public school teachers and they don't have a say in what they teach. I know that this doesn't mean that public teachers won't put their own agenda into the class but they don't have a choice what to teach when the stuff they want to teach isn't in the textbooks. Like this year my mom was tickled to death that there was almost two pages in the kids history book dedicated to the Vietnam war. Up from a paragraph in the last book. It's not always the teachers fault about what the kids are learning, granted in this case I feel that the teacher is to blame. Its the people that dictate what the teachers are allowed to teach. And I'm not a dumb little kid putting in my imput, I'm a first term vet school student and I love bush and my black rifles.