The Little Red School House touts itself as a bastion of "progressive education." Even today the website of the private pre-K-12 school in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood advertises its commitment to "social justice." But back when I attended—I graduated in 1955 from the high school, which is officially named for its founder, the activist and social worker Elisabeth Irwin—"progressive education" simply meant an indoctrination in leftist ideology. In 1945, the senior class voted to have the school teach recent Soviet history instead of American history, since, as the school's 75th anniversary commemorative book explains, the members of the class "thought Russia was great and Communism a noble experiment."
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