In today’s NY Post, Sol Stern warns us about “the fifth column in New York City’s public schools” made up of radical, far left teachers using the classroom to promote anti-American ideologies. Marxist groups like the New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) and schools like Brooklyn’s El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice advocate shoving extreme left wing politics down the throats of grade school children, all in the name of “social justice” (which has gained increasing acceptance as a legitimate academic discipline).

NYCoRE is sponsoring a conference at El Puente next month on Math Education and Social Justice. One of the educators in attendance will be Cathy Wilkerson, a convicted criminal involved in a domestic bombing plot in 1970.

Among the ideologies these radical teachers seek to bring into the curriculum:

• Katrina was an “unnatural disaster” that exposed the failures of capitalism and democracy and the truth about the “nature of power in our society.

• “No human is illegal,” but “undocumented workers” deserve full amnesty and the same rights as legal immigrants.

• Military recruiters seek to fill their quotas by preying upon low-income communities (because low-income=stupid and gullible.)

• Our notion of patriotism comes from the military and the media, and needs to be rethought.

NYC school children are being intellectually assaulted by socialist educators seeking new acolytes. Sounds a lot like the predatory recruitment tactics NYCoRE has accused the military of employing.

Although Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has paid significant lip service to teacher accountability and standards he and the NYC Department of Education have not addressed these blatantly unethical attempts to force feed political propaganda to children. Chancellor Klein: these teachers have gone too far already – get them out of the classrooms before they do any more damage.