A year ealier, I complained to the Dean of the English department at the local community college about an English teacher who was taking 30 minutes of each 90-minute class to complain about Bush, the Iraq War, and Christianity. Again totally off topic; had nothing to do with what he was supposed to be teaching. Any parent who doesn't recognize the strong possibility that their kids are the target of deliberate indoctrination by public-education teachers is naive.