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C) A political party that ran on a platform of putting the previous government’s “ideological” overhaul of school curriculum “through the shredder,” and is now desperate to find any evidence, no matter how thin, to justify that rhetoric.

D) A premier’s office not particularly interested in having students become critical thinkers that would give them the ability to, say, detect when political leaders are shining them on.

Stumped? I’ll admit this was a tough one, but if you chose any of the answers, you’re a winner.

The loser? Well, that could soon be our public education system if the leaders behind this rhetoric put their words into action.

For those interested in a little more background, the quote indeed came from provincial Education Minister Adriana LaGrange as she engaged in a scripted back-and-forth with her UCP colleague Richard Gotfried in question period this week.

Gotfried, who has tried to target the political proclivities of educators once before, got fired up about a Grade 10 social studies test he said was given to a student in his Calgary constituency.

The exam, he said, was rife with anti-oil and gas sentiment, featured attacks on free trade and capitalism and served as further proof that “radical left-wing ideology has made its way into our classrooms.”

When media asked for a copy of the test, the government offered only half of it, leading one to wonder if the UCP was engaging in a little late season cherry-picking.