This is one of the few policy choices I’ve ever seen that might actually make a long-term positive impact, as opposed to merely changing the speed at which everything gets worse.

The job protections for minors thing should be taught everywhere. A few of my friends were talking about jobs they did in high school and they all made them do illegal shit like no breaks or staying later than they were allowed to, it's so normalized to just not give a fuck about child labor laws

Shouldn't just teach kids that they have the right but a duty to join or form a union.

We should make that shit more important than voting. It has significantly more impact on the lives of the working class than which bourgeoise party wins. If voter turnout were the same as union membership shit would be drastically different... And the votes would be different as a result of the power of those unions too. Would it magically create socialism? Nah. But things would be entirely different.

I really don't envy those teachers who will have to hear some Right-wing teenage boys' hot takes on unions.

I'm surprised Newsom didn't veto this one like he did the trans rights one

Oh fuck yeah

Union propaganda in schools? Commiefornia confirmed

I was actually extremely lucky with my California public high school. Mine was the first year where they had exchanged the old China bad unit (tiananmen/Tibet) for a unit on the coup against Allende, CIA orchestration, and specifically how monstrous Pinochet really was. We learned a lot about the arpillerista movement and their resistance too.

My liberal-brained friends and I would actually argue with our teachers sometimes about how bad the US was framed in all our lesson plans, and their argument was "even if we are overdoing US bad (they really weren't), you are never going to hear these perspectives or about this history for the rest of your life if you don't hear them now". They were right, and thankfully those friends and I are pretty much all Communists now (at least as much as relatively privileged Americans can be). That was just sophomore year of high school, then junior year was AP US history back to American exceptionalist narratives and all. The school was special so changes like this give me some hope, but I heard it rather lost its way after I left.

Also our Spanish teacher would just put on motorcycle diaries during class and give you extra credit if you said the US was bad and Che good on tests. People made fun of her but she was fucking goaded.

Wait a minute… this is pretty based. What’s the catch here?

Don't connect those thoughts you might give people ideas