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Either which way it goes; hating America, loving America, it really won't matter who influences the students and how they form their own opinions. There is much more influence in the media; television, newspaper, radio, and of course, the internet. Most people, I believe, would rather form "their own opinions" based on the research that they do outside of school, biased research or not.
Whether or not the faculty of the K-12 schools will be teaching to literally hate America, or whether they'll be teaching the students how to think for themselves (when in reality they won't be, no one really does, they just form their 'own' opinions upon those that have formed their 'own' opinions) isn't going to matter all of that much.
I don't know if anyone's noticed or not, but the last big change that this country has had unto itself where we came together as a nation for at least a brief moment in time in just plain awe and fright was a little over eight years ago, and before that it was, what, the Revolutionary War?

I'd rather learn from the teachers the basics of education, and then learn more about other people rather than the country. Really, the country doesn't matter, but it is the people that live here, the people that die here, that matter. Screw the country, love your neighbor, because once you love your neighbor, you'll love the country. Gotta start small to get somewhere big.