The demonstration on Monday of a reported 80 teenagers in front of City Hall protesting the presence of the police in city schools is part of a campaign to thwart the centerpiece of Mayor Bloomberg’s program to restore order in the city’s most dangerous schools. I predict that by this time next year there will be far more protesters available to the adults behind these demonstrations who shamelessly exploit children to further their own radical political goals.

Even as the students protest the policies of the Department of Education, the department is giving their adult handlers control over a new high school that will open next month, the Bronx Leadership Institute. Some 120 pupils will begin class in September to undergo training — perhaps brainwashing is a better word — to protest the “establishment.” That means you, Mr. Bloomberg.

When it comes to sex or physical abuse, society takes the protection of children from the whims of adults seriously. There is clear understanding that children need protection because they are too young to make informed decisions for themselves.That is why I find it curious that the city is about to open a school that seems sure to engage in another form of abuse, force-feeding radical political propaganda into the minds of impressionable children.

The Bronx Leadership Institute is one of the Department of Education’s new small high schools. It is run by an organization with a long history of extreme radical political involvement, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. They are well known for using the most radical interpretations of the ideas of the late Saul Alinsky, who advocated organizing the “community” through intergroup “friction.”

The official theme of the new school is to train youth to “take charge of their schools and communities.” In February, Council Member Eva Moskowitz held a public hearing on security in the school system. As she often does, Ms. Moskowitz encouraged testimony not just from adults, but from children as well.

One student from Walton High School in the Bronx, Kim Williams, charged that the police patrolling this “impact” school routinely used stink bombs to disperse unruly students. The New York Post quoted anonymous police sources disputing the claim and saying that Ms. Williams’s testimony had been coached by the staff at the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, a charge that the Post quoted her as disputing. The only support of Ms. Williams’s statements came from an organizer for the group’s youth affiliate, Brothas and Sistas United, Mustafa Sullivan, who told the Post, “the stink-bombings have been going on for a while.”

Even the most vocal critics of the current policy of enhanced police presence at the most troubled schools do not believe that “stink bombs” were ever used by city police.

Brothas and Sistas United is listed in the city’s directory of high schools as an affiliate of the Leadership Institute, and it was one of three groups protesting the cops at City Hall on Monday.

It is frightening that the city would give these radicals control over a school, and hundreds of thousands of precious education dollars, with little or no oversight.The Department of Education directs those applying for teaching positions to send their resumes directly to the NWBCCC. Last year, this same group was involved in efforts to organize parents to keep their children home rather than permit them to take the third grade reading test. This was an effort to derail the mayor’s policy to end social promotion.

If the administration seeks to win over the grassroots community, let it think again. This is a group that has demonstrated nothing so much as impotence in mobilizing the masses. In the late 1990s, the NWBCCC bitterly fought the aspirations of the Riverdale community to win its own neighborhood high school. This led to a bitterly fought school board election in 1999, atypical of most elections of this type since the turnout was enormous, more even than the hard-fought primary election the year before in which Charles Schumer, Geraldine Ferraro, and Mark Green slugged it out for the U.S. Senate nomination.

Head-to-head, the NWBCCC slate was crushed by a more than 10-to-1 margin by an ad-hoc slate of Riverdale parents. The NWBCCC, while purporting to be the “voice of the community,” demonstrated no grass-roots support.

Recently, the NWBCCC hired a new executive director, James Mumm. Mr. Mumm is the author of “Active Revolution,” an anarchist how-to book. Since prospective teachers must forward their resumes to the NWBCCC, presumably Mr. Mumm will be selecting the school’s staff.

For some odd reason, the Bloomberg administration is giving this fringe group the most precious of all public entities, a school. This gives the radical political group control over the intellectual development of 120 impressionable children, a number that will increase each year until the school reaches an enrollment of 500. This school will be nothing more than a madrassa for far-left political indoctrination.

I view this as a form of child abuse, totally inappropriate for a public school funded with taxpayer dollars. Who in the administration has the good judgment to pull the plug, once and for all, before this scheme proceeds?