Are Our Schools Keeping Secrets from Parents?

I don’t know a single person stupid enough to believe that schools keep the curricula secret from parents.  You’re more than welcome to walk into your kids’ school, meet their teachers and administrators, leaf through the textbooks, join the PTA, and attend parents’ night.  You’ll learn immediately that there is no plot to brainwash your kids.

I happen to tutor, and so I know precisely what’s taught at our local public high school, but that level of involvement isn’t necessary.

Now, I’m not promising that you’ll be in love with everything you find.  Our 12th grade U.S. history textbook features a chapter on the late political activist Howard Zinn, so if you’re a Fox News acolyte, you may find this distasteful.  But it’s there in black and white; it’s anything but a secret.