Why is he on your shirt?

This astonishing cover isn't from some right-o'-center political journal, but instead from a youth magazine produced by the New York Times and distributed by Scholastic! Weird, huh? The article itself is pretty good: "Che: The Man Behind the Myth". This, however, disturbed me:

"I idolize him as far as helping me build myself," says Tanya Gonzalez, a 17-year-old senior at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Brooklyn, N.Y., who helped paint a mural of the Argentine-born revolutionary. "When we studied Cuban history, our focus was how Che Guevara helped free Cuba."

So there's an "academy of peace and justice" in Brooklyn that teaches the Castro version of Cuban history? Incidentally, it's a public school, so the good citizens of NYC are funding this stellar education.

I, however, prefer another bearded revolutionary with a beret: