I should count myself lucky that she had “Germinal” by Emile Zola as a book we could read for extra credit. It was many years later that I realized that was a good leftist (well, I don’t know Emile’s politics that well) book, and maybe one of the things that helped me get to where I am today.

I suspect she hadn’t read it, though.

My AP US teacher may have secretly been a socialist because he did not pass over American war crimes. He covered My Lai, how the Soviets did the most during WWII, etc.

My AP Euro teacher, on the other hand, taught us literal Holocaust denial likely stemming from David Irving and was vehemently anti-communist. It's no surprise she ended up getting fired for being a pedophile after her husband caught her with a student.