This sort of made me think of my own experience too. I grew up in metro area of a very red state about the same age as you. My about 5 years younger brother also went to different schools most of the time so another point of comparion.
I actually think both race and economic makeup make a huge difference back then. At least it seems to go with my experience. I started elementary school in the hood, the full on ghetto. We're talking like guys got shot a few blocks away type ghetto. It was one of those "magnet" schools meaning let's bring the wypipo here to try to improve. I recall from those years a lot of race-based political stuff, big MLK events, etc. I don't think they were necessarily teaching us to hate the country, but hell I was like 7 and 8 who knows.
The entirety of my education after that was in schools I'd call lower middle class, 70% white. Not the schools everyone brags about that their kids go there. They were kinda shitty to be honest. I don't recall much of the CRT stuff at all though. I can think of a couple things including one black history teacher in 8th grade. There was also another teach that had actually been to some of the concentration camps in Poland and liked to talk about that from her experience, but she was also pretty anti-commie. Actually was one I got along with well, as I've always been into cold war history. I've not really kept up with anyone from school, I don't even live in the same state anymore, but a couple weeks ago someone else mentioned they looked up and found their old classmates were all crazed leftists. I poked around places like Facebook and did not get that vibe. Sure, I don't think many were like me, but I didn't see very much virtue signaling and total leftist insanity.
My brother on the other hand went to the trendy upper middle class public school (if you can call a school that). It was not the one from our neighborhood but they'd use whatever loopholes to get in anyway. It was essentially where all the supposed "rich kids" go that were too poor for public schools. I'd be hesitant to say they were anti-American. He served in the military even. The thing is, he, his wife, and all of his friends are raging leftists. Almost all of his friends are from his high school days, totally different from me in that respect. I'm sure there's a personality component to it, but I'm at least left to think how much that leftism tended to stick from there versus my own experience.
This sort of made me think of my own experience too. I grew up in metro area of a very red state about the same age as you. My about 5 years younger brother also went to different schools most of the time so another point of comparion.
I actually think both race and economic makeup make a huge difference back then. At least it seems to go with my experience. I started elementary school in the hood, the full on ghetto. We're talking like guys got shot a few blocks away type ghetto. It was one of those "magnet" schools meaning let's bring the wypipo here to try to improve. I recall from those years a lot of race-based political stuff, big MLK events, etc. I don't think they were necessarily teaching us to hate the country, but hell I was like 7 and 8 who knows.
The entirety of my education after that was in schools I'd call lower middle class, 70% white. Not the schools everyone brags about that their kids go there. They were kinda shitty to be honest. I don't recall much of the CRT stuff at all though. I can think of a couple things including one black history teacher in 8th grade. There was also another teach that had actually been to some of the concentration camps in Poland and liked to talk about that from her experience, but she was also pretty anti-commie. Actually was one I got along with well, as I've always been into cold war history. I've not really kept up with anyone from school, I don't even live in the same state anymore, but a couple weeks ago someone else mentioned they looked up and found their old classmates were all crazed leftists. I poked around places like Facebook and did not get that vibe. Sure, I don't think many were like me, but I didn't see very much virtue signaling and total leftist insanity.
My brother on the other hand went to the trendy upper middle class public school (if you can call a school that). It was not the one from our neighborhood but they'd use whatever loopholes to get in anyway. It was essentially where all the supposed "rich kids" go that were too poor for public schools. I'd be hesitant to say they were anti-American. He served in the military even. The thing is, he, his wife, and all of his friends are raging leftists. Almost all of his friends are from his high school days, totally different from me in that respect. I'm sure there's a personality component to it, but I'm at least left to think how much that leftism tended to stick from there versus my own experience.