The Ed Schools’ Latest—and Worst—Humbug

City Journal ^ | summer 2006 | Sol Stern

[ClaireSolt]

The Ed Schools’ Latest—and Worst—Humbug Sol Stern

Teaching for “social justice” is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids.

In 1980, Bill Ayers and his partner Bernardine Dohrn came up from the underground—the Weather Underground, that is. It had been a wild ride for the Bonnie and Clyde of the sixties New Left. They first went into combat during the 1969 “Days of Rage” in Chicago, smashing storefront windows and assaulting police officers and city officials in the fantasy that they were aiding their Vietnamese allies by “bringing the war back home.” They spent the next few years planting bombs at government buildings around the country, including in restrooms at the Pentagon and the Capitol. When their little war against America sputtered to a halt, the revolutionary couple rationalized that at least they had not caused any deaths. But three of their comrades had blown themselves up in a Manhattan townhouse while preparing a bomb to detonate at a dance at the Fort Dix army base.

[ClaireSolt]

My own experience is that taking disadvantaged children out of their enviornment and showing them what they could aspire to works a lot better than stoking resentment.