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'Capitalism Will Fail,' Marijuana Leaf Part of California School Mosaic
Fox News ^ | June 25, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 06/25/2009 2:15:55 PM PDT by Ben Mugged

Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren't exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you'd expect from an eighth grader.

But that's precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic.

The symbols, which are prominently displayed outside the school, have prompted questions about the appropriateness of images like a hammer and sickle and a marijuana leaf on school grounds — and have led critics to say they are blatant proof of political indoctrination of young children.

Black Pine Circle bills itself as a day school where students from kindergarten through eighth grade will be "maximally free of all the 'isms' which pervade most aspects of the world around them: from racism to sexism to the less obvious forms of discrimination," according to its Web site.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: berzerkely; communism; publicschool; socialism
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To: Melchior

What the dopers don’t want to know is that in a REAL marxist society, they are the first to go. Useful idiots are only useful for so long.


21 posted on 06/25/2009 2:39:29 PM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: Ben Mugged

Yet another reason conservatives must return to teaching.


22 posted on 06/25/2009 3:06:13 PM PDT by NeoConfederate
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To: Ben Mugged
Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail".

Capitalism is not a type of government . . . . What are they teaching kids these days?

23 posted on 06/25/2009 3:33:54 PM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
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