Conservative Media Suddenly Concerned Over "Indoctrination"

Joshua Rhett Miller of Fox"News" writes about a grade school ( K-8 ) where children of the 2007 class had created a mosaic. This particular piece of art seems to be drawing the ire of "concerned parents and community members".

Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren't exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you'd expect from an eighth grader.

But that's precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic.

The symbols, which are prominently displayed outside the school, have prompted questions about the appropriateness of images like a hammer and sickle and a marijuana leaf on school grounds — and have led critics to say they are blatant proof of political indoctrination of young children.

That's right, a private school. A school where tuition for one year ( 10-month session ) costs more than $17,000 dollars.

Aren't the Fox"News" crowd always calling for "school choice" and "vouchers for private schools" and the like? Yes, they are. Only they want indoctrination on the other end of the spectrum.

The topics of choice at Fox usually support anti-governent stances, promote irrational fear of the new Fox versions of "socialism" and "fascism". They give guests a platform to promote racial divisiveness and misinformation on climte change, health-care, the economy, and the education in America.

This is the most widely watched cable news network in America. Fox"News" thrives off indoctrination. Of course, all those that are watching do watch for various reasons and may not watch for long. Still, you get my point.

It would be interesting to talk to the families of the students that made this mosaics. It's fair to say that indoctrination starts at home, not at school.