My daughter graduated from a small, private all-girls high school and was required to take a course called "Literature of Protest". Her daddy and I were very tentative about it until we were sent the reading list. First piece of literature they had to read was the Declaration of Independence.
Ha! You were expecting Abby Hoffman and Karl Marx and got Thomas Jefferson...excellent. And private schools are so much better than public since the parents have much more say in what goes on.