Consider what an "official" of the curriculum company told an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter: "It's important for kids to have some empathy for other people in the world."
Really? When did schools get into the empathy business.

Aug, 10, 2012,  C-span Video (search on empathy)
 (Obama) his motives is to find judges with empathy, that means the ones that really want to move the money around, not just decide the little old law, who don't care what the law says, move the money around.. That's his purpose,  and this is a very dangerous things,  it's very dangerous. we can be worried about who Obama will appoint next and we can be ready for a fight..

When asked what sort of a justice he will be looking for to fill Souter's seat, Obama replied that his major criteria will be the candidate's "empathy" for the poor, the gays and other minorities. This embellished Obama's previously proclaimed view of the judiciary's mission: to engage in socio-economic redistribution rather than to enforce the U.S. Constitution as written...

I want to hear the presidential candidates show some empathy for the nearly three million Americans who have lost manufacturing jobs that went overseas. Those were well-paid blue-collar jobs that enabled men to join the Middle Class, support a full-time homemaker, and buy a house.