Liberal indoctrination, long associated with our nation’s colleges, has now trickled down to our secondary schools, argues Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute:
A pop quiz: Where might a student most likely research the following topic: “The Perversion of the American Dream: Deconstructing Media Portrayals of Sex Workers through Analysis and Real Narratives”? At Smith, perhaps? Possibly Brown? Actually, Phillips Andover, one of the country’s oldest and most august prep schools, recently sponsored a student project in this classic topos of feminist theory. An Andover twelfth-grader spent last summer examining more than 20 films and television series based on the sex worker industry and analyzing interviews with sex workers in three major U.S. cities, reports a school press release. The student concluded–in impressive mimicry of feminist jargon–that the “persistent misrepresentation [of sex workers] in popular media has resulted in the loss of [their] ‘true voices.'”
Anyone who still associates elite prep schools with Latin declensions and mandatory chapel has not been keeping track. The academic-victimology complex, having achieved a near total victory over the college curriculum and bureaucracy, has been busily cloning itself within costly secondary schools. It’s not enough that college freshmen be taught to think of themselves first and foremost as members of oppressing or oppressed racial and gender groups. Fourteen-year-olds are also prime targets for conversion, because it’s never too early to discover your place in the system of American injustice.
Read the full article at Minding the Campus.
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