> > By the way, the dominant ideology in US government-run schools is far > > left liberalism.
> I doubt your statement about the dominant ideology in US schools. > If you do, then you are so completely out of touch with contemporary American culture that it is futile to attempt to communicate with you. On an almost daily basis the news (which is mostly left-biased itself) reports stories about the politicization of government-run school curricula. (Here, we call government-run schools, public schools, which I understand is the opposite in Britain.) Essential studies have been diminished in favor of so-called "tree- hugging" curricula. Which is why the US continues to falter in comparative student knowledge of math and science. A recent scandal was that elementary school students were secretly video-taped in teacher-led chants of "mmm-mmm-mmm Barak Hussein Obama" see one such video at http://fr.sevenload.com/videos/7yvebuv-School-kids-taught-to-praise-Obama When the videos went viral, the school's only complaint was that the video was unauthorized! A more recent case, five American high school students were sent home from school for wearing American flag clothing on a day celebrated by Mexican students. (Cinco de Mayo) They were told the display of US flags was disrespectful to the Mexicans. PS: No Mexican students are EVER sent home for wearing Mexican flag clothing--- on any day. In the US. we have no shortage of exposure to left-wing opinion. It is everywhere. Whatever else you may think, we are not unaware of socialist arguments. I suspect that in the UK, you do not have the exposure to conservative thinking on the same level as we do of liberal thinking. So naturally, you seem unable or unwilling to accept facts that do not fit your bias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
