I wrote earlier this week about the nearly two weeks of protests that have disrupted classes in Jefferson County, Colo., where more than 1,000 students from several area high schools have been proving their devotion to their education by repeatedly cutting class.

The source of their indignation is a proposal from three members of the county’s five-member Board of Education to temper the College Board’s new left-leaning Advanced Placement U.S. History curriculum framework. On Thursday night, the school board offered an olive branch. Via the Washington Post:

The board voted 3-2 to approve a review committee that will include students, parents and administrators. It was an adjusted version of a plan proposed last month to establish a committee to review the district’s Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum with an eye toward promoting patriotism and avoiding encouragement of “civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.” According to the original proposal, the district’s history curriculum “should promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights.”

Sure, a number of these protesters are good students, active community members, Leaders of Tomorrow, etc., and the school board is unlikely to win friends or influence people by outright ignoring them. But as a matter of educational principle, isn’t letting students dictate their own curriculum kind of like letting the barbarians set up Rome’s security?