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Originally Posted by scaeagles
I said I had no problems with the content, but stood by my concern over the teachers and their biases leading the post speech discussion as was in the plans.
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Why must you assume that teachers are automatically going to be biased and push their political agenda on their students? For that matter, why must you assume teachers are going to
have a political agenda or be unprofessional enough to do it.
Most importantly, were you worried about teachers pushing their bias when it was "your guy" in office?
Do you really remember your teachers pushing their political agenda on you?
I sure don't.
No wait. I take that back. I remember on 9/11/01 my math teacher talking to us about the importance of staying in school because if there was reinstatement of the draft you could be delayed because you were in school. (and he was an obvious aging hippy working for the establishment. It was awesome). Hell, I couldn't even tell the leanings of my political science teachers in high school or college.
Do you really think that kids are going to turn on their parents? And is that a bad thing?
I actually called my dad last night and thanked him for raising me to look at both sides, objectively. For always explaining to me why he was voting the way he did, why he agreed/disagreed with a particular candidate over the issues. For never blanketly saying "I just don't trust him" or "I have a bad feeling about her". For never bad-mouthing "the other guy". For showing me by example that just because he didn't agree with something they were still our elected officials and deserved respect.
I
hated GWBush, but he was still the POTUS and that title deserves respect.
We're raising a generation of kids who are learning that they don't have to respect or listen to people they disagree with. Scary. Very, very scary.