It saddens me that math can be politicized. In the Soviet Union, my parents pursued math degrees partly because it was one of the few areas of academic sciences which could maintain independence and integrity even under Soviet censorship. Today in high school, math remains the exercise of logical reasoning and thought that a teacher's ideology cannot skew (seemingly). If logical reasoning and abstract thinking, qualities which math ultimately gives students, need to be politicized and selectively applied to the "real world," what hope is there for a responsible and independent American electorate tomorrow?