SCHOOL FOR THOUGHT

Just the Facts

What do you make of this newly-appointed university professor whose main goal is to turn his students into activists and revolutionaries? (Of course, these students' activism have to be directed in directions of which the professor approves, such as environmentalism, ethnic studies, and communism. We're guessing that students who demonstrated against, say, abortion on demand or higher taxes would flunk his course.)

It's one thing for university professors to promote such obviously-biased ideology, since one can argue that university students are aware what they're getting into and can stick-handle around the issue if they wish. However, elementary and secondary students have no such luxury, since they're pretty much stuck with their teachers. In addition, being younger, they are more impressionable. 

It seems to us that the elementary and secondary grades should be declared an ideology-free zone.