@FBM,
I think someone who's daft enough to spend a year as a Buddhist monk has no place telling others what counts as brainwashing.
Btw, the American education system is lacking in almost everything, Michael Moore writes of text books dating back to the 1970s and schools being forced to take on corporate sponsorship just to make ends meet.
It's no wonder that the only teachers prepared to work for such lousy pay are religious nutjobs.