Course Correction

Remember, it's not propaganda:

Montgomery College is revising plans to offer a summer class on the Occupy Wall Street movement -- geared toward high school students -- after residents complained that the class is promoting the Occupy movement's agenda to students.

The course in question, part of a summer program for students in grades 9 through 12, is called "Occupy MoCo!" (which, coincidentally, is also the Twitter handle of what appears to be a branch of the Occupy movement based in Montgomery County).

The course description asks students if they're "ready to join the movement for justice" and adds that "young people have the power to change their community, their schools, their future."

The Maryland school is the latest to bring Occupy into the classroom. Columbia, Brown and New York universities have similar offerings. But Montgomery College say the course isn't designed to teach teenagers to pick up a placard and pitch tents in a park. Rather, it's a critical look at grassroots social movements through the lens of Occupy, they said.

"It wasn't advocating or taking any stance on the Occupy movement," said Montgomery College spokeswoman Elizabeth Homan. "It's taking a current events subject that all the students have either read about or heard on the news and using it as a pivot point to talk about what's happening historically."

That's funny; I don't seem to recall similar courses about the Tea Party movement being offered...