Unfortunately, I had the same experience lately. I'm a student in a french engineer school, whose name I won't discolse until I graduate, and we have an 'energetics' course, where we're supposed to learn everything about the engines.
The teachers, however - I nicknamed him 'captain planet' afterward-, spend the whole term telling us that the world was doomed because the American violated the Kyôto protocol, and if everything is bad in the world, it is because of the American, and, did I tell you that Bush is the worst moron ever? Which, engines? We are dealing with the problems of the world, little heartless student!
Hopefully, I spent some time in the us this summer, where I could find some real infomration about the Kyôto protocol and its inefficiency, and, oh yes, a piece of information about the engines.
During the test, of course, the questions were not about engines, but about 'global warming', and the teacher was essentially checking that you were thinking in agreement with the official party line.
Strangely enough, we are not able to retreive our sheets...
The more time I spend there, the more I question the usefulness of school, when you can go and find a more accurate lesson in any good american public library.