Schools of Hate
by Lynn Woolley
Posted Jul 24, 2006

At a time when the United States could use a stiff dose of unity, some students are being taught just the opposite in a new phenomenon called “Schools of Social Justice.” The idea here is that the United States has a sordid history of racism and prejudice and that young people -- particularly Latino kids -- should rise up.

Schools of this type have been functioning for a while -- some as taxpayer-funded affiliates of the National Council of La Raza (“The Race” in Spanish) -- and some have grown out of the recent marches in support of illegal immigration.

According to organizers, a summer school non-credit course at Austin’s Lanier High School grew out of conversations with some of the students who protested an enforcement-first bill passed by the House of Representatives.

You would think the kids at Lanier, a high school with a pathetic academic performance record -- would be crowding into summer school to brush up on reading, writing and math. Some may be -- but about a dozen enrolled in a non-credit class where the “the three R’s” gave way to just one R: racism. the rest