MIAMI, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- As more red flags are uncovered about the Fort Hood tragedy, some observers allege that political correctness played a significant role in enabling this to happen.

For years, I have reported on many cases of college and university administrators infected with "political correctness," punishing students and faculty members as if there were a constitutional right not to be offended. I have now found the most outrageous case of all.

By Anonymous SOCIETY THE SOURCE: "History's Struggle to Survive in the Schools" by Diane Ravitch, in OAH Magaxine of History, April 2007. IT'S EASY TO IMAGINE THAT American children in some golden period of the last century got a thorough grounding in history. They didn't.

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The 2004 blockbuster "Mean Girls" portrays an intelligent and beautiful high school girl pursuing a relationship with the stereotypical "hot jock." To steal his heart, she deliberately fails math tests so she can get the jock to tutor her.