Teaching Government in Schools

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.

>>21

you're right that lawyers do a very hard job, keeping up the laws of society etc. (I'm not going to get in on the best lawyers work for the people with the most money and whatever that leads to etc. etc.)

But I think you're wrong about the teachers. Teaching is, as opposed to what it sounds like (make these kids learn stuff), a pretty hard job. Maybe it's not as hard as being a lawyer, but they don't get paid as much, so that's fair.
Anyways, about it being hard to be a teacher. First of all, you need to deal with these unruly kids (unless you're a teacher on a "good" school). Second, after a day of teaching things to kids who may or may not care about you (there's nothing more frustating that rying to teach things to people, and they then completely ignore you), you have to go home and correct essays, or assignments or something similar.

As a teacher you also have several other obligations; to go on courses, to go to meetings, to take shit from kids parents, for shit the kids make.
There's an immense pressure on teachers, because if the kids complaint to their parents, the parents will complaint about you, and then it doesn't matter if the kids did something wrong, since most parents don't believe their kids would do ANYTHING wrong.  

Teachers are also what is suppose to shape the future country into whatever the ideals are. They have the responsibility for creating bright, intellegent and responsible young people, "nurturing" them, as you say. Quite a responsibility.

So i don't think the reason most teachers are supposedly left-wing voters (does anyone have any statistics about this?), is because it's an "easy" job.
As >>22 said, 71% of ~4000 lawyers voted democrats, and those are well educated. If we say the amount is about the same with the teachers who are, or atleast should be since they are teaching our kids, well educated. Maybe there is a relation. 

(no, I'm not a teacher)