This past Wednesday marked the sad anniversary for Mark Crowley and his family as they remembered the death of their son, Kyle, and 11 other Americans in Iraq. Mark Crowley has a story he wants to tell the American people about how his son didn't die in vain. Kyle was an American hero fighting for our freedom and ensuring that terrorism will be fought and defeated in the Middle East so it won't be on our shores again.

On Tuesday was another sad anniversary for anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, as that was the day when her son Casey was murdered in the slums of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq. Despite the fact that Casey fervently believed in the rightness of his military service in Iraq, his mother has used his death as a stepping-stone to become the face of the anti-war movement.

When Lowell High School, one of the best public high schools in America, has its student Assembly on Friday, only Cindy Sheehan will be heard. Mark Crowley will be standing outside, banned from coming on campus, and prevented from letting students hear his very different point of view from Cindy Sheehan.

Any semblance of providing our children with facts, information and the conflicting opinions in our society has been discarded in favor of a leftist jihad on our campuses that tolerate only one point of view. If you do not belong and subscribe to the "Blame America First" crowd, you are not invited to our high schools, colleges and universities.

The left does not see education as you and I do, where young people develop critical thinking skills and learn how to make their own decisions. They see it as a training ground – like al-Qaida sees their training grounds – a place to indoctrinate young people into their own perverted view of the world.

Have you ever wondered what happened to those 1960's longhaired, unkempt hippies who were more interested in demonstrating, free drugs and free sex? Unfortunately, I think we have found them – well ensconced in America's school systems.

That is in no way to discredit the many fine and dedicated teachers and educators who have chosen this magnificent occupation. It describes a ruthless cult of America-haters who want to use our education system against the very system that has provided them the freedom and liberty to strike at all of us.

It's been well documented that America's college campuses have been recruiting grounds for the Left for the past few decades. Professors who are supposed to teach math, science or music have no qualms about instead using their pulpit to spew liberal propaganda and invective upon America's best and brightest.

A few months ago, I wrote about the efforts at the University of California Los Angeles to both silence and shut down a student watchdog group that documented the unrelenting pattern of liberal bias among UCLA's faculty.

In Southern California, elementary and high-school students have been encouraged to serve as street activists to fight for the cause of illegal immigration and anarchy.

Parents at Lowell High School in San Francisco learned this week that Cindy Sheehan had been invited to their children's school to speak to the students about the evils of America's efforts to combat terrorism and to use her to rally students to oppose the fight against terrorism.

Some of those parents contacted my radio program and asked if I could do something to help them. They didn't send their children to school so that they could be subjected to political overtures by the school district and its left-wing heroes.

I offered the school district the assistance of the grassroots pro-troop group, Move America Forward, to provide another Gold Star mother or father (parent who lost their son/daughter in the war on terrorism) who could also address the student body. Thus, students could hear from people with similar experiences, but differing opinions.

The administration at Lowell High School and their superiors at the San Francisco Unified School District have declined to let the students hear a different side.

The Board of Education in San Francisco – which should have its hands full with a lot of failing students and dilapidated schools (in contrast to Lowell, which is a rare bright spot) – is more interested in stopping our war against terrorism. They just recently took a position unanimously against the Iraq War.

Hmmm. As a parent of a school-aged youngster, I am pretty sure that most of the other parents would like the school board to focus on giving our children a better education. I could care less about their opinion on the Iraq War or their recipe for making a tofu sandwich.

The San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner is Daniel Kelley, who has his own history of being an anti-war activist. This would be a good time for you to let him know by e-mail (dpks@pacbell.net) that you don't appreciate his bringing his left-wing ideas into our classrooms.

Schools should be for learning, not indoctrinating.