@Milajoy Yes, it is a leftist bureaucracy created in the 1970s to give highly indoctrinated university grads with no skills and degrees jobs. It does not control the curriculum or textbooks, but it does suggest which ideology to cram down the throats of children. It is a waste of money.
He will be blind for life because he interfered with a law enforcement operation. In some other countries, he would have been dead for doing the same thing.