I learned about the Ludlow Massacre in high school US history. It was a good class and we had one of the best teachers in the high school teach it. We learned facts about it. We learned about gilded age robber barons like Rockefeller. We learned about the Jonestown Flood too, another billionaire of the day disaster that killed many people. We probably even learned about leaded gasoline and other environmental disasters at some point. However, the teacher did not really contextualize any of those facts. Maybe students couldn't even understand a larger context anyway.
A fairly obvious point to make to students in the context of the Ludlow Massacre is that the same people and their organizations still control the US government and financial system. I am sure that point was not made, although I don't recall specifically. We had a world history teacher who would occasionally point such things out--for example he made a point to explain that Wall Street funded the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. He did not lead the class down the path of understanding why that was the case, but still at least connected those two dots.
Public education is training to serve "the system", rather than learning how to be a whole, complete human. In fact, people are sort of mentally crippled and put into a cage by their education.
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