Our nation's public schools are a dismal failure.  Nothing underscores that fact more than a story I heard about Colina Middle School in Southern California.  In one eighth-grade honors social studies class at Colina, a teacher decided to hand out sample outlines to show the students how to outline an essay.  So far, so good.  But one of those outlines was this:

Now, you might notice something about this outline.  Try subheading IV.  Apparently, our middle schools are now teaching kids that they ought to worry about the psychological traumas suffered by the mass murdering Einsatzgruppen.  After all, it was a "traumatic task to murder people."  Somehow, I think that it was more traumatic for the people being murdered.

If this isn't the definition of moral relativism, I don't know what is. It's no wonder so many of our schoolkids worry more about the psychological status of Islamic terrorists than the fates of the people they murder around the globe.  Sensitivity has become the highest value -- a far higher value than standing up for liberty and freedom and against genocide.

The principal's name is Shane Frank.  The phone number of the school is (805) 495-7429.  Frank's email address is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Let your voices be heard.  Enough is enough.