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Why is it soooooo difficult for teachers to just teach? What is so freaking hard about keeping your political and personal ideology out of class, keeping your hands off our children, and keeping your pants on when around our children?
Ah but the teachers ARE teaching. And teachers DO KNOW that the best time to influence a person for the rest of their life is when they are young.
While teachers do know this, it's those lone individuals that go to this type of extreme.
But teachers do know that the kids CAN be influenced for life while in school.
"A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates. The 8th grade students, who attend Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, were required to seek out the vulnerabilities of Republican presidential hopefuls and forward them to the Obama campaign. No similar assignment was given to research Obama’s history, identify his weaknesses or pass them along to the Republican candidates."
The a-hole teacher said he didn't REALLY want them to send it to the Obama campaign. Nooooooo, he just wanted them to find out the name of the office that would receive such information.
It's heartwarming to see right wingers expressing their fear of middle school kids.
Heaven forbid that teachers actually teach kids how to research and think.:roll eyes:
Give me a break, if this was pro GOP teacher having them research the faults of Obama you wouldn't agree with it.
There is plenty of ways to teach both these skills without injecting politics into it. Politics do not belong in the public classroom, period. They should be teaching them how our government works, perhaps go over the different parties but once you cross the line into ideology of those parties the teacher should be immediately fired.
When I was in school the teacher would ask our opinions regarding subjects like this. After the discussion by the students, he would present pros and cons from both sides and that would be it. The purpose of the lesson was to learn that there are different views for each subject and to make us aware of other opinions. No sides were taken!
Give me a break, if this was pro GOP teacher having them research the faults of Obama you wouldn't agree with it.
There is plenty of ways to teach both these skills without injecting politics into it. Politics do not belong in the public classroom, period. They should be teaching them how our government works, perhaps go over the different parties but once you cross the line into ideology of those parties the teacher should be immediately fired.
Yeah..when you tell them what to do they are not thinking. There's no "critical thinking" going on here. The teacher TOLD them what to do.
Critical thinking is what happens when you are given an open-ended problem to solve.
"Find the faults of the GOP and tell the Dem party" is not open-ended and doesn't involve critical thinking.
When I was in school the teacher would ask our opinions regarding subjects like this. After the discussion by the students, he would present pros and cons from both sides and that would be it. The purpose of the lesson was to learn that there are different views for each subject and to make us aware of other opinions. No sides were taken!
I had teachers like that too, i never knew their politics. I also had teachers who poured their politics and ideology down our throats, and only their opinions were correct.
I actually think an assignment to find the weaknesses of candidates and state how you would address it if you were running an opponent's campaign is not a bad class exercise. It goes really bad when Obama is not included and the students have to look up to whom they would send their research in the Obama Camp. Then it's a mission and it's way out of line. The teacher should be suspended.
If you think middle school classes wre feree of politics you obviously were never in one. Most sounded like this comment board.
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