The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

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?

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.

Let's try this for the 100th time.

I said I had no problem with my HS age daughter to watch it or discuss it because she has the critical thinking skills necessary to deal with any form of bias. I said I'd watch the speech with my younger kids. My younger kids do not have the critical thinking skills necessary to disagree on abstract concepts with their teacher.

I do not think there was a situation for me to worry about with agendas being "pushed" in an organized fashion with lesson plans provided to teachers by the administration. So no, I wasn't concerned about it.

I didn't say they would necessarily push their bias. However, even the most objective have biases that come through, whether teachers, judges, journalists, whomever, and it comes through. As far as professionalism, there are literally dozens of stories here in AZ of teachers having sex (or doing something sexually inappropriate) with their junior high or HS students in the last couple years. Everyone in the profession is not professional.

I do recall both political bias (when we were reading 1984 in 1984, my junior year) and religious bias (My 8th grade algebra teacher was a Muslim and I can recall him saying many time "There is no God but Allah").

Did you read the earlier link I posted about bias? Anecdotal, certainly, but I also said you could find examples and i could find many more.

To think there is bias that comes through is not unreasonable.