An Inclusive Litany
12/29/02
California's Contra Costa Times
reports that the School of Social Justice and Community Development, a
public school in Oakland, features lesson plans in "systems of
oppression." As part of a particularly creative chemistry assignment,
students were to write a ransom letter to President Bush in which they
pretended to hold an element in the periodic table for ransom, listing
its various properties and why it is important, along with their
demands.