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Anti-America M.S.
I got this off LGF; I can’t get into the site. Sorry
At a passing glance, there was a certain familiarity about this Los Angeles public middle-school classroom. The students definitely looked the part—they were still sweet, still relatively innocent, the boys barely aware of the girls, the girls only barely able to tolerate the boys. And there was a teacher standing in front, talking about the video that was playing.
So far so good

A closer look, however, revealed that most of the students were in the back of the room making protest signs. The few 11- and 12-year olds watching the screen saw Guatemalan villagers exhuming the skeletons of victims of that Central American nation’s bloody civil war. And the social studies teacher made it clear he thought the U.S. had been on the wrong side. "That’s a mass grave—you’ve heard about them," Shawn McDougal told the class. "The U.S. supported the government and they were our friends. We gave them weapons so they could kill their own people." By contrast, the guerrillas fighting the government were, apparently in his view, valiant heroes. "What’s a guerrilla movement?" the teacher asked, then quickly answered: "People fighting for change, right? For economic and political reforms, right? And they opposed the military government."
That's what I like, a nice, even-handed assessment...
He shushed the kids in the back of the room, then continued: "Remember how we talked about Afghanistan? About how the U.S. gave money to arm Osama bin Laden?" The lesson given on this autumn day a year ago was typical for this taxpayer-supported school—where the war in Iraq is wrong, capitalism is suspect, immigrants are almost always taken advantage of by their bosses, and the United States and its government are, if not the enemy per se, then at least misguided. Those messages mirror the beliefs of the school’s founders, Roger Lowenstein, a 60-year-old former attorney-turned-TV writer, and Susanne Coie, a 33-year-old teacher. They conceived of this school as having a dual purpose: giving inner-city students from ethnically and economically diverse backgrounds a college-prep education, and exposing them to immigration, criminal justice, labor relations and other social issues. They would learn community organizing and study law and public policy. Their field trips would be street protests.
And this is a PUBLIC school! Are parents allowed to shift their children if they have a brain?
Posted by: Atrus 2003-10-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=19529