Unacceptable!

This is unacceptable! And way too close to home.

Courtesy of Matt on B4B:

I just got this in a press release from World Ahead Publishing...

BREAKING NEWS: Public school officials bus students from L.A. high schools to join anti-Bush rally. Kid's author decries educators' liberal bias.

LOS ANGELES (November 3, 2005) -- Public schools have long been criticized for bringing left-wing politics into the classroom, but yesterday teachers in Los Angeles high schools took their students out of their classrooms to participate in a left-wing political rally!

Ten high schools in the Los Angeles area bused over 800 students to participate in a large anti-George Bush rally organized by a group called "The World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime." Teachers, administrators, and campus security all defended the decision, saying it gave them a chance to supervise students who would be protesting anyway, but children's author Katharine DeBrecht decried the decision as an example of educators advancing a liberal political agenda.

DeBrecht -- the author of the smash hit illustrated book "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" (Kids Ahead; hardcover $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) -- said the decision by Los Angeles school officials was tantamount to encouraging kids to join Democratic causes: "It is reprehensible that public school teachers and administrators would actually encourage students to leave the classroom to attend a Bush-bashing event! Not only are these educators ignoring their duty to teach our children, but apparently they care much more about turning them into props for their political causes."

So much for reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Comments

[stranger]

not living in LA, i can't say for a fact what the motive was, but my guess is this article unfairly portrayed it. students DO gain something from attending a protest, even if they choose to PROTEST the protesters.

i went to high school in DC, and my hs yearly bussed students to the march for life, whether we wanted to go or not, and whichever side we chose to argue for. as for myself, i generally snuck away with a group of friends to go hang out in georgetown and missed the whole thing anyway.

[RIstudent]

Stranger misses the point. Liberal bias, especially at the college level, permeates the daily lectures. Some students fear disagreeing with teachers. Once some join the groupthink, peer pressures result. It’s a spiral that results in a lack of critical thinkers. The market place of ideas becomes a hall of indoctrination. As busy families rely more and more (unfortunately) on school's to raise their children, this manipulation of conscious is truly "unacceptable."