Just agreeing with some further thoughts. This is the touchey-feeley NEA and AFT personified. Its not the sixty's radicals running the show. Its not even the parents. Its a bevy of sociology and psychology professors teaching the lowest common denominator of our nation's colleges (the declared education majors)the proper methods of indoctrinating our youth in "self-esteem" "diversity" "social conscience" "environmentalism" ad infinitum. I have three kids living through this tripe. 'The Constitution is flawed because it only counted slaves as 3/5 of a person'. 'Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder.' 'Terrorism is an outlet for revolution, and we must understand the perpetrator's point of view.' Don't give grades in primary schools, it injures self-esteem. Don't study Descartes, Loche, Smith, Machiavelli or other political philosophers because its too much for the young minds, and anyway the teacher never heard of them. (This last part is literally true if only anecdotal). It may be that we've already lost because we left the battlefield a generation ago. I can only be heartened by the contrary posts, and pray that I, and this article, are dead wrong.