TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN AT A SCHOOL NEAR YOU - AT 5:45 A.M. ET:  It's hard to believe they're this blatant about it, but the National Education Association, one of the nation's most powerful teachers' unions, has some recommended reading on its website.  Please go here.

You will find a recommendation for Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," and "Reveille for Radicals."  I suspect it's there because it influenced Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The NEA says that Alinsky is "an inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!"  Of course, that only applies to left-wing organizing.  If you want to organize a rally to support American soldiers, or to lower taxes, Alinsky has no help for you.

These are teachers.  And some of these teachers may well be teaching your children.  One of the great scandals of education reporting by the media is the failure to explore exactly what's being taught.  I certainly am not claiming that Alinsky is taught in all, or even most schools.  But many schools are using books and lesson plans that teach, as fact, things that are propagandistic, inaccurate and sometimes even hateful.

And if you dare ask any questions you're a "McCarthyite" or a threat to "academic freedom."  Parents are intimidated.

November 7, 2009