Schools Editorial Shows Hypocrisy

I would have agreed with The Times’ Aug. 30 editorial “Ideology Shouldn’t Run Schools” if you had stopped with the title. Instead, The Times went on for another round of conservative and Christian bashing. You believe that describing programs in public schools as “liberal” or “socialistic” is “specious.” So, only conservatives and Christians bring their ideology to public schools? Please.

How many Times readers are tired of your incessant attacks on religious conservatives? If someone had expressed concern about “politically active Jewish liberals” forming school board majorities, I can well imagine Times editorials shrieking about anti-Semitism. Your clear implication is that Christians are always acceptable targets of bigotry.

As for those “parents who proclaim themselves conservatives,” “proclaim” is the operative word. I’ve seen these “conservatives” echo virtually everything liberals say, whether the subject is adulation of Bill and Hillary Clinton, passing “responsible” tax increases, supporting social programs for “urgent, unmet needs,” or allowing the left unimpeded control of public schools.

Finally, I never hear any talk about board majorities “not listening to dissenting views” when those majorities are liberal, education establishment types. Just another example of the hypocrisy so familiar to readers of The Times.

LEON E. MCKINNEY

Huntington Beach