My modern Latin america teacher is requiring us to read Che, and my friend's american history teacher said "you guys from the boot heel may think I’m a raging liberal or something. To me that’s a joke because I’m literally a communist” (note the boot heel is the "deepest south" part of missouri.
Maybe the kids are going to be okay. Hopefully this brightened your morning, knowing that there are some based people out there with some influence.
Edit: I forgot to mention my chem teacher grew up in the soviet union, from about 1970-1990
He talked a little bit about his time in school. I need to go talk to him about some stuff for class, I was planning to ask him then. Also that history teacher is my new role model.