Indoctrination in high school

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By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 6, 2005

Below, FrontPage Magazine founder and lifelong civil rights activist David Horowitz relates how high schools have become the newest indoctrination front for the Hate America Left. The Left's decision to target unemancipated minors, often without their parents' knowledge, should alarm every reader. David Horowitz is the sponsor of Students for Academic Freedom, an organization with chapters on 150 college campuses. He is the author of the Academic Bill of Rights. His most recent book, The End of Time, is available from the FrontPage Magazine Bookstore. -- The Editors.

Through a serendipity I was able just before the Memorial Day Weekend to invite myself to a propaganda offensive against the Iraq war conducted by the anti-American Left at Pacific Palisades High School. It was an experience that revealed more than I was happy to know about the state of our public school classrooms.

The in-school event was a production of the Pali High English Department, whose plan was to corral 300 students for an hour and forty-five minute lecture by an antiwar speaker from “U.S. Tour of Duty,” a group that works with Medea Benjamin’s Code Pink in active obstruction of America’s war effort. The outside organizer was a former member of the Pali High English Department named Marcie Winograd, who is president of an organization called “Progressive Democrats” and a member of Palisadians for Peace, an organization composed of what appear to be retired Communist Party members and activists involved in the fellow-traveling Left.

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[JimRaynor]

I haven't met a conservative teacher in Middle school or High school. Dunno about Elementary.

I remember when the Iraq war started my english teacher (in 9th grade) would tell us how our illegally elected president was now conducting a illegal war. He had us write a couple paragraphs on our thoughts about Iraq... whoo boy, I think I was one of the few who got under a 90! I wrote more then the required 2 paragraphs too...

Incidentally, my friend who is avidly a liberal (hey, what can I say, known him since second grade) wrote one paragraph and got a 95.

Yep, I hate School.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

"Why are high school teachers staging political events during school hours, let alone events featuring such extreme views? What educational purpose is served by exposing students to far-Left political propaganda, which is unanchored in any professional expertise let alone grasp of the facts (e.g., the world is not running out of oil and the Jews do not control American foreign policy). Students I talked afterwards to volunteered that the school was “very political” and their teachers were very left-wing. One student told me he had been thrown out of a class by his teacher for claiming that Saddam Hussein had used biological weapons against his own people, a view which the teacher rejected. Other students told me their leftist teachers constantly harangue them on controversial issues."


VERY telling!

And they call this type of behavior "education"?

[Apollo5600]

None of the teachers present so much as acknowledged the possibility that this outrageous scene was not perfectly normal. When I asked the English teacher with the John Brown t-shirt why she was wearing a political slogan, and whether she didn’t agree it was abusive to inflict her political opinions on her students, she accused me of being insensitive to the Muslim students present. Of course she had no words of concern for the Jewish students present, whose community had been blamed for the War on Terror and the death of innocents, nor for the half a dozen Hispanic and black students who raised their hands when asked if anyone present had a brother or sister in Iraq. Apparently it was fine to bring in a former CIA agent to tell them that their brothers and sisters were risking their lives for oil companies and the Jews, and that there principal purpose in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> was to kill innocent Iraqis and spread terrorism.

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I then told this political activist posing as a teacher that she was a disgrace to her profession. This was apparently over the line for her. “You are on this campus illegally,” she said, “and I am going to have you removed.” “Go ahead,” I said, knowing that the regulation was to keep drug dealers from getting at the teenagers, and thinking they should have a similar injunction for people dealing political drugs, as well. I knew, however, that if I called her bluff she would see how absurd her threat against an invited speaker would prove.

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Walking away from the crowd that had gathered for our little dust up, I found myself alongside Marcy Winograd. “Don’t you think it’s abusive to inflict your political agendas on school children who are here for an education?” I asked. “But the media are all on the other side,” she replied. “Even if your claim were correct,” I said, “and it is not, this is not the media. This is a school. Can’t you appreciate the difference?” “The media are on the other side" she repeated. I could see the whole issue was above her mental ceiling and gave up.

Braindead Libs should not be allowed to be teachers. Walking, talking, robots from the pit of hell, totally oblivious to what they are and what they are doing. They have ears, but do not hear, they have eyes but cannot see.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Monsters

[PrezLeefun]

Fools

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Dolts.