The San Francisco school board voted tonight to allow the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to operate at least one more year in the public schools.  Activist groups, including Code Pink, have been agitating to have the group thrown out of the schools.  Never mind that the school district gets close to $1 million to run the program ($1.7 million, which they split with feds).  Never mind that three-quarters of the students involved with the program told the district that the program made them feel "safe and appreciated in high school” while only 16 percent reported being interested in a career in the military.  And never mind that most of the kids use the JROTC marching drills to meet their PE requirements.  Code Pink told the SF Chronicle that the kids "should have a choice of better things to do."  Just not the "choice" to join JROTC.  So typical of the Left.

At the same meeting, the school board approved a new school under their small schools program—the Bayview Essential School of Music, Art, and Social Justice.  That’s what missing in our public schools—a good social justice curriculum.  Who cares if the kids can’t read; let’s make sure they know how to work up a good outrage about the death penalty, capitalism or America’s position as the world’s only super power.

The full story in the Chronicle is here.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.