Of course the problem with New Jersey’s public schools is that they are being inundated with conservative ideology. Who doesn’t know that?
From today’s Associated Press report, we learn that a student in the Garden State is complaining about the use of a James Q. Wilson book in his Advanced Placement government course:
Those experts say “American Government” by conservatives James Wilson and John Dilulio presents a skewed view of topics such as global warming and separation of church and state. The publisher now says it will review the book, as will the College Board, which oversees college-level Advanced Placement courses used in high schools.
Naturally, the complaint is that the book includes views on global warming other than the approved orthodoxy.
It’s pleasing to know that students in New Jersey are reading Mr. Wilson and Mr. Dilulio’s book. It says something about our education system that a book that is probably one of the most intelligent pieces of non-fiction these students will encounter in the course of their high-school education is under attack. The spirit of the Vandals is alive and well.