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 | lmorovan (16)
04/25/2008 | It is called indoctrination. Works very good when supported and likely mandated by certain government agencies. A slap in the wrist of the teacher, and the program continues. And when you find that many agree with the teacher, you get a low lying, slows cooking, maturing movement to erode the foundations of our nation and our freedoms. And likely "the Taliban agrees."
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 | morphagent (0)
12/19/2006 | One must learn to walk before running. High school is meant to learn the facts. Theory is for college.
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 | Djahuti (57)
06/21/2006 | Looks like the English teacher didn't get through to someone here!
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 | jamestkirk (24)
06/21/2006 | This is not right and that school board must act. A reminder to all parents of the importance to teach your children to think for themselves rather than be influenced by manipulators.
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 | JohnSpina (18)
03/27/2006 | The goal of education should be to teach young folks HOW to think not WHAT to think.Here is an idea:Just present the darn facts.Then let the students decide.DO NOT try to turn your students into nice little progressives.Just tell the truth.Then if the children CHOOSE to lean left,well,that is their prerogative.
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
03/16/2006 |  I don't perceive it as "America not being America anymore" this was happening when I was in high school during the Vietnam War. It seems to me that this should be much more upsetting to the liberal contingent than the conservatives. Conservatives get to say, "see, that's what I mean. " Liberals don't even deny the guy's absence of professionalism, nor the abdication of his responsibility to teach, objectively, according to an approved curriculum, in spite of his contrary personal, political views. Oh, I see, he's just teasing their brains. Good cover.
This is a microcosm of a national problem. Liberal indoctrination dominates academia, and not just at the high school level. I guess it's ironic that they are indoctrinating my children, and using my money to do it. This is an issue that the local school board adjudicates. They are the only body directly answerable to the parents/taxpayers. Arrogance like this is impressive. Imagine being so steeped in your ideology that you could stand in front of a class of young, bright American kids and spew your hatred of their president and their country, attempting to convince them of the correctness of your ideas, with no "other side" presented, and rely on their parents being too busy to care. What teachers' colleges turn out idiots like this?
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 | oscargamblesfro (81)
03/16/2006 | I'll agree that it can get tiresome at times, and that there are some teachers who are monomaniacal about pushing an agenda or set of beliefs upon students. However, it's all in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes this type of statement can be a euphemism for unpleasant truths and matters that don't flatter the position that one has taken regarding history, or whatever the subject may be. And there's still people who want a whitebread, sanitized, 'Norman Rockwell painting like' presentation without showing the ugliness too...
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| souljunkie (21)
03/13/2006 | I just did not feel the weight of the liberals on this site until this list. My new name for them is just plain "un-realistics". Ive used these words too much I know but...In my day a teacher just did not discuss their personal politics at all and they sure as hell did not teach ideas based on their political convictions. There is no doubt in my mind that is being done here. In my opinion "that is just not the America" I was raised in. It is immature, and has no place in a class room of minds that need molding. Like I sad before, until they vote, a youth in America should be taught to RESPECT our leaders, not condemn them. They will have plenty of time for that once they are "off the tit" and making decisions for themselves.
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 | abichara (63)
03/10/2006 | Everyone has their rights to their political views. In the social sciences in general, there is always an element of subjectivity that has to be taken into account. While social science has made big strides towards becoming more "scientific", your personal opinion is always going to define how you communicate your ideas. Now, if a teacher takes it out on their students for not agreeing with them, either by ostracizing or giving out bad grades to students whose opinions don't match up with theirs, then I believe that there is a problem.
A good teacher exposes students to ideas and allows them to communicate their own reactions effectively. No "spewing" of beliefs needs to apply on either end of the political spectrum.
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 | Vudija (98)
03/10/2006 | I think that a teacher's job is to get his/her students to actually think outside of the box or challenge themselves, mentally...but...Because politics are such a heated thing to discuss; if this lecture went beyond "teaching" and onto things like arguing or belittling opposing views (which is almost always a part of a political debate nowadays), then I wouldn't agree with his using class time to share. Because I didn't hear about it from other sources, and did not hear any part of the lecture that he was giving; I can only assume that it must not have been AS bad as first thought, as he still has his job (in other states, teachers have been fired for far less when it came to their political views being shared in class). At the same time; I think there is a time and a place for this to even be mentioned in passing; and a geography class wouldn't really be one of them, as this isn't relevent to his class. Maybe if it were a speech and debate or a government class it would be looked at slighty different.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (156)
03/10/2006 | Leave your opinions outside and teach, damnit.
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 | irishgit (150)
03/10/2006 | Never heard of this before, but even if I take Armor's version as accurate, I don't see how this isolated incident is evidence that "america isn't america anymore". The action of one incompetent or deluded person are only evidence of that persons behaviour.
I'm not suggesting for a moment that this is the only time such a thing has happened, but its a long way from being an epidemic.
Drawing generalizations from such a specific is like listening to the rantings of Father Coughlin during the thirties and forties and concluding that all Americans are vicious anti-semites in support of world domination by Hitler.
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 | GenghisTheHun (177)
03/10/2006 | Well I haven't read the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" or the "Manifesto of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" but I have read enough from people who have read those works to draw an opinion.
I didn't listen to this teacher, but I read what others say he said, and I conclude that he is a brainless, clueless, lefto moron bent on indoctrination rather than education.
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
03/10/2006 | Listening to free-thinking Americans who base this opinion purely by a sound-bite get a free-pass to the short-bus-school of retards. . .you didn't hear the whole lecture, you didn't talk to the kids, you didn't talk to the teacher. . .if he is a bozo who can't stick to the subject, fire him. . .if he is pushing the kids (you remember? The worst-educated kids in the first world) to actually think, clasp your hands and thank whatever god you worship that you just might have a teacher who challenges them. . .
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