Why isn't Che Guevara taught about in American schools?

I believe he should be taught thoroughly, not because he was a good man but all the opposite. They should teach his own memoirs, where he delighted himself by shooting prisoners in the head. read more

School children are taught about a wide range of historic personalities who are good and bad and I believe they should be taught about Che Guevara so that they can understand and frame their own opinion rather than listening and not reading biased articles about Che. read more

The portrayal of Che Guevara, and the Cuban Revolution in general, in U.S. schools is usually pretty negative. It's less about Che Guevara and more about Fidel Castro and the Revolution at large, but historian Aviva Chomsky covers a bit of this in the Introduction to her excellent A History of the Cuban Revolution. read more