Teacher Throws Bush Tantrum In Class

[Spurminator]

They should have tried first.

It's not their fault that the Media blew it up more than necessary but it shouldn't have gone to the Media in the first place unless other avenues had failed.

[Extra Stout]

I had a terrific teacher in high school who also happened to be a hardcore lefty. But he knew where the line was. During class lecture time, he didn't exploit his captive audience. He taught the curriculum.

But if a student wanted to chat with him during some free time in class after finishing an assignment, or after class, or after school, he'd open up and share his beliefs. That's perfectly OK because it's in the give-and-take of a conversation where both parties are on equal footing. The student is approaching him to have the conversation of his own volition.

But the teacher does not have free speech rights to say whatever he wants during a class lecture. He is not speaking in a free public forum. He is carrying out his job as an employee, and he is subject to the terms of his employer. If he wants to prattle on about pinko-commie causes, he can do it outside of his work, or after class with those students who choose to talk with him.

What he is doing is not "developing critical thinking skills." I had teachers who worked on that with students. It happens in small discussion groups, where everybody is supposed to be speaking and challenging one another to back up what they say. It doesn't happen in a lecture. What he is doing is exploiting a captive audience of impressionable minds by cramming his beliefs down their throat.

If there is evidence that he has been conducting his class this way with any frequency, he deserves to be fired.

[Nbadan]

If there is evidence that he has been conducting his class this way with any frequency, he deserves to be fired.

Settle down Francis

[Nbadan]

How some people view a 'more politically balanced' education...

[Peter]

To recap this thread...

If a teacher fires off an anti-conservative tirade in class he's merely developing "critical thinking skills".

If a teacher fires off an anti-liberal tirade in class he's helping to establish the Fourth Reich.

Understood.

[spurster]

We don't want our kids to think critically. What good is that on the TAKS test?

[xrayzebra]

Critical thinking. Preaching the left wing theory is critical thinking? Why do people
on the left continue to hold on to falsehoods? None of their theories work, never
have, never will. Government screws most things up, but they insist that they
continue to handle health care, social programs and getting people out of poverty.
It wont happen. Government should stick to what it was created for.

The guy in Bolder is an over educated idiot. Like many in our government
controlled education system. He was suppose to be teaching a basic subject,
not geopolitics or politics period. And even in geopolitics he is suppose to
give the material he is assigned to teach and encourage the students to do
research on their own, not his.