Crossroads' narrow-mindedness

Boy, I tell you, when leftists get an idea into their heads, there is nothing they won't stop at to save the world from any of its evil, mistaken notions.

Consider a conservative teacher. Yes, there are actually such creatures. They go into the profession because they love learning and they want to pass on a similar love of learning to the next generation. They are far less focused on passing on their ideas and conclusions.

Now let's step inside the conservative teacher's head. When he imagines the child of a liberal parent, he sees the parent in the evenings teaching his child that Marxism is good and that men and women are essentially the same. The conservative teacher shrugs, dismisses this unfortunate situation as "That's their right" and moves on.

Now let's look at the liberal teacher. He has gone into teaching for the sake of "fundamentally changing the world." When he imagines a conservative parent, he sees a toothless hick with values that are not just not well-intentioned but which are evil. Gun-toting, Bible-hugging, religion-clinging, SIXHIRBer, in a position to pass on these evil values to their kids. Far from shrugging and letting these values be passed on to the next generation, the liberal teacher needs to rescue the next generation from their own idiot parents. The kids must be rescued.

This extends to any school run by liberals. Crossroads is known as the artsyfartsy school in L.A. and no, it does not have a gleaming reputation as one of the best schools in the area; it's known to be a school run by nuts. When you think of Crossroads, you instinctively think of the "Tell them what you did in [your progressive] school today, Patrick" scene from the Rosalind Russell version of "Auntie Mame".

Of course, the parents who send their children to that obscene, anti-education school have a choice; they could have sent them to the Mirman School or the Curtis School or any Catholic School. When they chose Crossroads, they thought they were opting for a curriculum with creativity and intellectual freedom. They were wrong.