Maybe educational standards have increased since No Child Left Behind was signed into law. In Richmond, Virginia, one public school starts preparing kids for college before they’re even freshmen in high school:

Graduates from Richmond’s Binford Middle School get a diplomalike certificate, signed by the teacher and principal.

It is ringed by six graphic marks, including icons of a notebook, an apple, the school mascot and such.

Then there is a picture of a man. And who is this icon of American education?

Not John Dewey or Horace Mann, both of whom were called fathers of American education.

It’s not Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin or George Washington, either.

Nope. It isn’t any of those dead white male oppressors.

It’s...prepare to be shocked:

It’s Karl Marx!

Not exactly the father of education. This is the father of socialism. The father of communism.