HIGH SCHOOL LIBERALISM

(St. Bernard, OH) If you've ever wondered why some people reach adulthood with skewed ideas concerning America, this story describes a project whereby students are being taught to be liberal activists. Not activists, LIBERAL activists.

Juniors and seniors at Roger Bacon High School will build their own Shantytown on Friday out of cardboard boxes at the school.

The cardboard town will open for the fourth consecutive year at 6 p.m. and will be torn down at 8 a.m. Saturday. Students will sleep in boxes with only the clothes on their back to increase awareness of homeless people and issues they face.

Presentations will be made by Betty Kelo, a resident of the Drop In Center, and Steve Sunderland of the Peace Village. There will be candlelight prayer vigils, a soup kitchen and a performance by the Bucket Boyz.

It would probably be politically incorrect for a student not to attend a school sponsored slumber party.

One other aspect of the "awareness program" needs to be addressed. Will their force-fed "awareness" include knowledge concerning the demographics of homeless people? Will they be told that homeless figures are customarily unverifiable and therefore consistently exaggerated? Will they be told that the greatest proportion of homeless people are substance abusers that eschew rehabilitation? I strongly suspect that these high school students will be inculcated with a "selective liberal awareness."