FrontPageMagazine has an editorial from someone who recently escaped a horrific Catholic school. No, it wasn't horrific because nuns were roaming the halls swatting kids with rulers; it was horrific because left-wing groupthink was expected - and enforced:
The following are some instances of liberal indoctrination that I experienced at my Catholic high school...
On the first anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, a teacher gave us a rather lengthy handout that argued that whether a culture is “civilized” is relative. The handout was full of statements such as “a terrorist loves his truth just as much as I love mine,” and “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Our teacher went on to say that America imposing its view of what it is to “be civilized” on the Afghan people is bigoted. It would be disgusting to initiate such a discussion on the anniversary of 9/11, even if my school wasn’t located 15 miles from Ground Zero. Many students in our school, including myself, lost family members the day of the attacks. Regardless of one student’s crying in class, the teacher continued to be downright nasty when some of the other students expressed their outrage.
Students at my school endured multi-annual presentations, videos, and lectures on the "forgiveness of world debt." All of the videos attributed footage of Africans living in squalor to the United States’ “selfishness” in not forgiving debts of developing countries. Forgiveness of world debt is a rather complex economic concept, but the general conservative stance regarding debt forgiveness is that doing so would result in little or no improvement of third world living standards. At the end of my Senior year, in a totally unrelated project, I decided to survey the political knowledge of some of the teachers at my school. The teacher who was the biggest proponent of forgiveness of world debt could not even name the governor of our state...
That's so outrageous that I hope this young woman is exaggerating the matter. I fear that she isn't. Her last name is unusual (Inauen) and via Google I found her listed on the debate team at the Catholic University of America, which is presumably where she's now an undergraduate. I hope her undergraduate career offers more freedom than her high school years did.
Posted by kswygert at August 24, 2004 08:23 AM