Students Launch Campaign to Reform HS Peace Studies Class

For years the country's classrooms have been well defensed bastions of liberal ideology and promotion. At colleges and universities the general leftist nature of instruction has been very much in the open, while that going on in elementary and secondary schools has been more covert in nature -- typically relegated to the almost-innocently placed liberal dogma within the confines of science, history and geography books and practice lessons.

In one Maryland high school, however, the liberal teaching hasn't been quite so clandestine, and the students are the ones crying foul.

Sara Dogan, writing in FrontPageMag.com, quotes Bethesda high school student Andrew Saraf;

“It’s not acceptable for a public high school to be used to push a political agenda. That’s not what education is about,” Saraf commented. “The ‘class’ is headed by an individual with a political agenda, who wants to teach students the ‘right’ way of thinking by giving them facts that are skewed in one direction.”

Colman McCarthy, the teacher of the course, is the founder and president of the Center for Teaching Peace, an organization which works with teachers and school districts to start or expand education in peace studies. McCarthy has defended his teaching style, saying, “Unless we teach them peace, someone else will teach them violence,” although he claims to welcome conservative dissenters in his class.