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The culture wars in the schools.(politically correct bias in education)
LAST YEAR, Prime Minister Howard suggested that government schools might be too politically correct and that this left-wing bias in the curriculum is one of the reasons why parents are turning to independent schools. Is it true--has the education system become more about indoctrination instead of education?
Judged by the impact of the culture wars over the last twenty years or so, the answer is Yes. Instead of education being committed to academic standards, the focus is on promoting an ideologically driven, politically correct view of the world. Left-wing academics, teacher unions and sympathetic governments have all conspired to use the education system to ...
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