Thank you so much for trying to protect a future generation...Ayers will always be a complete loser. Obama is not fooling the uneducated working class.

Crucial information, whether you're interested in politics or education--or both. Thanks so much for your research.

As a former resident of Hyde Park (early 70s), I used to shake my head at the radical comments overheard around the UC area. Unfortunately, the purveyors of these sorts of comments have made themselves part of the higher education scene, and, as you demonstrate, try very hard to influence ALL education through professional ties and organizations.

Thank you, City Journal, for pointing out the hypocrisy of this "advocacy."

I don't know much about Bill Ayers's teaching. But you say that one of his "major themes is that the American public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony" and then you call it anti-American.

It seems that you are saying that an anti-capitalist or anti-corporation attitude is anti-American. This is a ridiculous, though often used, assumption. It is similar to claiming that any criticism of current national policies is patently un-American and un-patriotic.

Many Americans believe that unchecked capitalism and the corporatization of our nation runs directly counter to the ideals of a true democratic republic. The Founders would agree as well, and many stated as much in their own writings.

Therefore, I would commend Mr. Ayers, or any other teacher, who fights to keep the self-serving forces of capitalism from unduly influencing our public education system. And my voting will reflect that.

Throughout North America, the teachers have turned into socialist-indoctrination professionals. In Ontario, Canada, we used to have the best schools in the Western world. Now that the radical socialists are in charge, students are way behind the traditional norms. However, they all know about global warming - just don't ask them to spell it.

Looks like Barry's chickens.... are coming home, to roost.

If Obama were the agent of positive change he claims to be, he might be in favor of school vouchers, or some other meaningful reform that runs contrary to the wishes of the teachers' unions and elementary school establishment.

Mr. Ayers clearly veers to one side of the political debate (at least by this country's spectrum based mainly on cultural ideas). But, your article does nothing to show that "social justice" is a bad thing.

For example, I grew up in the South with many influences very close to me and in society encouraging discrimnation (including often hearing words I would not repeat). When I reflect that I did not adopt these views, I remember teachers telling me that while the older generation may have grown up with certain ideas, racism was not something that should be continued. Should these teachers have kept quiet because fighting racism smells of "social justice?" I have many friends, Christian and otherwise, who believe schools should discuss societal issues and encourage citizenship, including ethical behavior and yes, political action. Look at the new generation who urges their universities to stop buying sweatshop gear, for instance.

And yes, I believe strongly in elements of "social justice": even though my parents had no college degree and not much money, I believed pasisonately that I should be given the chance at a college education, and that government should help families, not just corporations, to succeed (radical words, I'm sure, for you.) Some of my Christian friends have chosen homeschooling exactly because the public schools are trying to cleanse themselves of any ideas of morality and ethics.

I do not see why social justice has to be purged from our schools. And, if you had seen the schools I moved to in Miami, the conditions in which teachers taught and children lived, you may understand why teachers feel outraged.

I am not familiar with Mr. Ayers curriculum, but if you have a problem with it, please state it clearly and don't simply assume we all agree that "social justice" is a bad thing.