Waste of good oxygen.

Pharyngula has a story about an essay that a parent found offensive which was linked to on a school website. The essay was simply about America's identity as related to being a democracy or a republic. It is a clear, coherent discussion that doesn't hide some of the uncomfortable truths like ensuring slavery being a key motivator for some involved in the revolution, and that money in elections has a negative impact, tainting our democratic process. Read the essay and decide for yourself.

Here's the thing that kills me, though. These are some of the comments of the offended party who became upset that the school linked to the essay.

"I don't want the schools teaching my children about politics or enculturating them into any other belief system other than what we teach at home," Schnell wrote. "Enculturating is a brand new word invented by progressives which means changing someone's core belief system. ... These dangerous ideas are linked to ... radical socialists who have discovered that the best way to change a nation is to indoctrinate -- enculturate -- our children and their teachers through 'democracy' training."

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"It doesn't mean they have stopped teaching this, it means they are going to do a better job at hiding their purpose. [Meyers] believes in anarchy, pagan worship and that Jesus was just a leader of a small cult and is a real vampire! He advocates radical socialism, limiting families to two children, abortion to term, homosexuality, worshipping the sun instead of a 'dead Jesus,' saying that Mary was just an unwed pregnant teenager, and many other socialist political views, just two clicks from the district's home page. ... All this was linked directly from Alpine School District's Web site."

Because pagan worship, abortion, sun worship, and rejection of christian beliefs are socialist political views. In my opinion, you should not be allowed to complain about anything a school does, if you clearly demonstrate ignorance to such a degree that it appears you either did not go to school yourself, or at least got nothing out of it.

Ms. Schnell, if you have any sense of decency or honor, please go look up the definition of socialism. Did you know that the man who wrote the U.S. pledge of allegiance was a socialist? Probably not, I'm guessing. You seem to be the type that only learns buzz words and built your ideology on oppositionalism, talk radio drivel, television conspiracy theories, and your own personal superstitions. No critical thinking required: just let yourself be bombarded with ineloquent paranoia, disguise it as populism, and believe whatever happens to stick.