Published: May 1, 2000

Letters

Your article "Let It Be" [April] aptly opens with the phrase "If any place seems like a perfect spawning ground for a revolution" and goes on to describe the progressive education at the San Francisco Community School. I like writer David Ruenzel's choice of words, but for a different reason. The school's primary teaching goal clearly is not a broad, well-rounded education that fosters an informed and analytical citizenry. Instead, it serves as an indoctrination center that molds young, pliable minds into single-issue political activists. And, of course, the children's nine-week, single-topic projects reflect the pet issues favored by the school's teachers.

I am an advocate for free-market education and honor the rights of parents and teachers. But I sincerely hope parents have selected this school with their eyes wide open. It was Lenin who said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Jeanne Donovan

Mother

Fort Worth, Texas