When, when, when, when, when… will they learn?

That’s a rhetorical question. The answer is: never.

(I don’t remember which cartoon it was, either Charlie Brown after trying to kick the football only to have it yanked away AGAIN, or Garfield suffering a full tummy after eating an entire lasagna. One of them asked “When, when, when, when, when… will I learn?)

So, I got an email from my left-leaning district directing us to stop teaching Cesar Chavez, now that he is a sexual predator. I was thinking, “But, I never did teach him as a sympathetic historical figure! The facts of his influence on the labor movement are no different than before the allegations.” I taught him as a historic figure, not as a hero, to begin with. But the District’s assumption is that we all must have been presenting him in a sympathetic, rather than objective light.



The good news for me is that I’ve already taught North and South America and I’m retiring in 43 school days, so I’ll never teach Cesar Chavez again anyway. But my colleagues will continue teaching social studies from a far left perspective.

I only know what I've read about him, farm worker labor organizer, and opposed to illegal immigration. Had he been recently shot by federal agents his transgressions would be swept under the rug and he'd be cannonized by the church of the loony-lefties.