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Friday, January 24, 2003
Berkeley is holding a two day teach-in on how much children should hate the war. There's not much to do except roll ones eyes and shrug the head at a collection of educators struggling to inject propaganda into the schools. Ms. Heagerty does a nice job of getting the people involved to squirm around the issue of using two days to indoctrinate an unusual side to a controversial issue.
Boardmember John Selawsky, sponsor of the "School Days of Public Education on Peace," resolution, acknowledged the event's political charge.This from a body of thought that has supposedly been on the front lines of keeping politicization out of schools. That's what concerns me most, not two days of tedious agitprop in a school that already has let a semester's worth in with a wink and a nod. To oppose politicization of the schools requires an absolute fidelity to the cause. That moral authority has been dropped. What's stopping these administrators from blatantly allowing a cross slate of popular leftist causes to run the classes? But oh well. It's kinda hard to get outraged about this, such a typical abuse of authority that it'd probably get A2 mention in the old Planet. It might be interesting if the national media picks this one up because it's Berkeley, while ignoring the larger Oakland teach-in. Email This Post! |
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