You know, from all the same groups and individuals who condemned the new social studies standards adopted by the state of Texas for being biased and politicized.

The Los Angeles Unified School District school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that Arizona's new immigration law is un-American.

The school board president made the announcement Tuesday night after the district's Board of Education passed a resolution to oppose the controversial law, which gives law enforcement officials in Arizona the power to question and detain people they suspect are in the U.S. illegally when they are stopped in relation to a crime or infraction.

Now set aside the FACT that the Arizona law mirrors both federal and California law. Set aside the FACT that between 2/3 and 3/4 of the American public support the law in question. That a school board is IMPOSING a single view of a controversial public policy issue as the official orthodoxy to be taught in class is obscene.

Contrast that with the much-maligned Texas standards where one complaint was that students were expected to look at both sides of controversial issues and make evaluations of the facts rather than accept the liberal orthodoxy..

Now tell me – which of the two practices constitutes educational malpractice and propagandizing in the classroom, and which promotes critical thinking? Which produces good citizens, and which produces mindless, indoctrinated drones? The answer should be obvious.

UPDATE -- 6/10/2010: It appears that the situation is even worse than it initially appeared. And yet the opponents of "politicizing the curriculum" remain strangely silent.