A very partial solution at best. But one that might benefit many Jewish elementary and high school students
“IFthere is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein,” declared Justice Robert Jackson in his oft-quoted opinion in Barnette vs. West Virginia State Board of Education (1943), which struck down the state’s mandatory flag salute statute.
That message appears to be lost, as “social justice” programs, which are little more than ideological indoctrination centers worthy of Pol Pot, proliferate at both public and private universities. But at least students in those worthless degree programs choose to be there. Far more frightening are mandatory courses for all students, such as that in “structural racism” required for all first-year students at UCLA Medical School, a public university.
A recent guest lecturer, Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, whose primary qualifications are having been both homeless and incarcerated, spoke with her face covered by a keffiyeh. She instructed all the students to get on their knees and touch the floor — “mama earth.” She also led the class in chants of “Free, Free Palestine.”
As described by the Free Beacon, she decried modern medicine as “white science,” inveighed against “Turtle Island” (the United States), before asking students to stand for another prayer.
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