Upvote for that cute Robot I got an Alf xD <| sep |> Ancestrally speaking , I am . I ' m the goofy result of what happens when a Sicilian man and a Lithuanian woman get together and call the stork . But you are correct , we live in the U . S . , and anything below university is hit or miss in terms of educational quality and consistency . Example A local high school had a very kind and sweet teacher for the AP U . S . HistoryGovernment class . He was forced to leave when some patriotic students took offense to his teaching an alternate , lesscheery version of the founding of AmericaThanksgiving story we U . S . kids were taught in grade school in addition to teaching the Christopher Columbus was practically a saint version . In the school ' s defense , the alt . version wasn ' t in the approved curriculum for that class , but I mean come on he offered both . He also appered not to take a side in the matter , and just wanted to give his students the chance to decide what made most sense to themselves .