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Teaching Government in Schools

Name: CCFreak2K !mgsA1X/tJA 2005-09-23 2:35

Since it's my senior year of high school, the state of California (pause for laughter) has made it manditory for me to attend a Government/Economics class.  While this wouldn't be a problem (I love to hear people bitch about the world and the people who run it, as long as they have a valid arguement), the teacher I have is EXTREMELY left.  While this also wouldn't pose a problem normally, he's always injecting his left views into any debates that occur.

The bottom line?  The only teachers that should be teaching Government should be ones that can be on both sides of the fence equally (at least most of the time).

Discuss.

Name: krunzi 2005-10-11 17:40

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Is there any chance you could give us some examples of his comments in your class?
About the environment in academia, the teachers etc. might tend to be left-wing voters (so they vote democratic? haha), but all those conservatist politicians, lawyers, etc. etc. are all well educated. USA is run by a conservative goverment, despite all those people having been taught by left wing teachers? It can't be all that "bad" :D

And why would the WHOLE acadmia environment be left wing, these are the top brightest minds in society (supposedly) and i'd be surprised if they were all invovled in some big "left" conspiracy. The reason they might show "left" opinions in their teaching is probably because it's very hard not to, if you actually believe in socialism or something like that, and you live in a country like the US.

Also one of the main objects of going to school is to teach students to critisize their surroundings and what they think is wrong, so the fact that you notice this and make a point of it is not really a bad thing (this ofcourse doens't make the teacher's actions any better).

But ultimately i'd be har dto find ONLY teachers that would ALWAYS be politically correct and take the sides of both left and right. And if there was a right-wing teacher who brought in his right-wing opinions in class, would anyone complaint?
 
 

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