Gaze at the Newton High Class of 1967 photo long enough and you’re drawn into an America at odds with the history books. That selective history, which tells of an America led by a reviled president, torn apart by a war, race riots, rampant poverty and inequality. A nation in anarchy, on the verge of collapse. “A Peoples History of the United States,” courtesy of Howard Zinn.

Yet look at the faces in the class photo. The boys — young men really — all clean cut in their blazers and ties; the young ladies, all in dresses, donning ribbons or headbands. And their teachers, looking like an educator should — dressed to the nines, dignified, with an aura of authority that ensured respect.

Those teachers in their 40s had fought or lived through World War II, the 30-something teachers came from the Eisenhower Era of the 1950s. And the 20-somethings lived for JFK’s call to service.

They truly were the best and the brightest. American educators who believed in our nation. Teachers with patriotism in their DNA. True role models who taught the virtues of America, who proudly led the Pledge of Allegiance while extolling Americanism to their students. Hippies, yippies, anarchists, commies, rioters, were the oddballs, the outcasts, the dregs of society to be shunned at every quarter.

Patriotism was the norm at Newton High, circa 1967, for both teachers and students.

If there were any leftist teachers at the high school back then, it’s a safe bet there were barely enough to fit into a closet.

Yet today they could fill the Newton North auditorium.

It was a long time coming, but the left has taken over our Newton schools. They teach our children. They control the curriculum. They call the shots.

Leftist ideology has become the norm. Multiculturalism has replaced patriotism. The radicals are running the show now, and it’s on full display at Newton North.

The Black Panthers, shunned by those faces in that Class of ‘67 photo, have finally arrived at Newton North under the guise of Black Lives Matter, that radical, violent, racist, anti-Semitic movement is now welcomed by teachers and administrators alike. They’re all complicit in embracing the anarchist mob whose motto is kill-cops-at-every-chance.

It’s sad. It’s pathetic. It’s downright scary. But there it is for anyone who cares to notice. The inevitable result of what happens when the radical left controls a high school like Newton North.

The consequences of which are both dire and predictable.

No student should be harassed, targeted or ostracized because of his or her political beliefs. But that is exactly what is happening to young Trump supporters at Newton North.

These students are by all indications normal American teens. But they are in an abnormal predicament. They’re in a hostile environment — their own high school — simply because they’re Trump supporters in a school that reviles the new president. A school in which teachers and administrators advertise their left wing politics and make no secret of their contempt for anyone who doesn’t follow their party line. Especially their students.

They hate President Trump and they want their students to hate him too. It was a given that the school would not have the students watch the inauguration of Donald Trump, as they had done with Barack Obama. Twice.

So what’s a die-hard leftist educator to do when students actually want to watch the inauguration in school? Make it as difficult as possible. Try to cajole, discourage or otherwise make the students feel odd that they’d even consider watching. Give them a guilt trip. Then if they really insist, put them all in some room out of sight, and make them put away anything Trump — shirts, hats, banners. And when their liberal student lemmings get wind of them, look the other way as they berate and torment the Trump students for daring to watch the inauguration in school.

Then afterwards, watch the Trump students carefully, hover over them, make them as uncomfortable as possible. Keep them guessing if that lower grade they got in English might just be because of their allegiance to The Donald. Likewise with that teacher who declined to give a college recommendation.

This is what bullies do.

So the students and parents complained to the school staff, who in turn humored them, then to the school superintendent, who humored them some more.

Then they came to us. The Massachusetts Trump Team. The ones who ran the regional campaign to help get Donald Trump into the White House, and who now monitor, report, respond to and intervene in matters that need intervening. Like this.

In the movie “Network” Howard Beale had the public shout from their windows, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.”

This was theme of the Trump Campaign. But we’re not shouting anymore. We don’t have to. We won. Donald Trump is our president now.

Which is why Newton North and the Newton school system in general is just one email or one phone call away from having its federal funding pulled. To paraphrase President Trump: believe me, we can make it happen.

So, moving forward, it will certainly come as a relief to the Newton North student in a Trump shirt and Trump hat that the days of being harassed are finally over.

Tom Mountain was an invited guest to the Inauguration of President Trump.