Could you imagine Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings pushing this policy in America?
Polish students surrounded by police hold placards that read ‘Throw Giertych to a bag, and the bag to a lake’ during a protest outside the Ministry of Education against Education minister Roman Giertych in Warsaw June 13, 2006. Student groups as well as some teachers’ unions disagree with Giertych’s openly nationalist views and plans to implement mandatory ‘patriotism’ classes in high schools. (REUTERS/Katarina Stoltz)
Goodness! The National Teacher’s Union would be storming the White House!