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Public Education or Public Indoctrination?

Have you been to a public high school lately? Maybe it is just the one I was in, but between the signs on the walls and classrooms, and what the kids tell me about their teachers and what they are learning, I get some distinct impression taxpayers are funding a leftwing indoctrination program for our children. I can't tell the difference between our schools and the faction of the labor movement that believes the future of the labor movement is not in "bread and butter" issues but is social justice and liberal causes and politics. I don't want our schools indoctrinating our kids with left-wing activism or right-wing activism. I want our schools teaching "the bread and butter issues," the basics. If there are going to teach about controversial and hyper-partisan issues that the country is divided on, they should be required to explain different points of views. Our schools should be a safe place to hold different points of view without feeling ...