"Barack Obama is going to change things, mom.  He is going to change the world." 

My nephew's first political conversation with my sister wasn't really his conversation - or a conversation, for that matter.  It was a message from the first grader's teachers.  She chuckled but it irritated me.  I've shared my concerns with what kids are and aren't learning in school here, here and here.

Andrew Klavin urges conservatives to take a more active role instilling the right culture:

"Culture, in the true sense, is more than that. It’s the whole engulfing narrative of our values. It’s the stories we tell. Leftists know this. These kids get an earful from the Left every day. Their schools serve up black history in a way guaranteed to alienate them from the American enterprise. Their sanctioned reading list denies boys the natural fantasies of battling villains and protecting women from harm. Any instinct the girls might have that their bodies and their self-respect are interrelated is negated by the ubiquitous parable of celebrity lives. And I hardly need mention the movies and TV shows that endlessly undermine notions of manly self-discipline, feminine modesty, patriotism, and all the rest."

Read the rest at City Journal.

Thanks, Execupundit.