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It's good to hear of parents standing up against this sort of crap, especially when they are successful.

BTW, when I was in 3rd grade "social studies" class, the text book we were assigned described the difference between socialism, communism, and capitalism; the description of communism was *fairly* honest (ie, the writers admitted it was a Bad Thing), but socialism was described in the most glowing terms imaginable, and the description of capitalism could have been straight out of an 1890s Marxist tract...There was no admission whatsoever that "the worker's" condition had changed since the days of Charles Dickens. The text really tried to push socialism-and the teacher not only pointed that out, she got the whole class to agree that "Socialism is the best system".

This was Anno Domini 1973.

Yeah, that sort of indoctrination has been going on for some decades now...Thankfully some parents fight back when they learn of it.

The public schools are one of the first places that Progressives got a strong foothold and proceeded to burrow their way in (see: John Dewey). I recall the year you cite in your story (1973) because I was in high school at the time and it seemed that all of the young teachers (assistants) were long-haired, maggot-infested dope-smoking types fresh from the hyper-radicalized college environment of the late '60s and early '70s.

One of the books I recall being assigned to read in my Social Studies (they'd already done away with "History") class that year was... Rules For Radicals... it seems they couldn't wait to foist Alinsky on young, impressionable minds. Little did my teacher know that I was also reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time, at the urging of an older mentor. Created some major fireworks, right there. ;-)