It was 1984. There was an election between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. My History teacher would not divulge her policial affiliations to the class until after the election. She said it was her duty as a public servant to stay neutral and give her students the chance to form their own opinions.
I’ve always remembered that.
She voted for Reagan, which she told the class after the election in case anyone wanted to have an open discussion. I always felt like this was the best way for a teacher to handler her political beliefs and I have appreciated this ever since.
Politics should be discussed in certain classes is schools, that’s how you learn. However, there should be ZERO indoctrination by the teacher. A quality teacher will present both sides of the issue and allow the students to decide where they stand. When a student asks the teacher, “what do you think?” the teacher’s response should be, “It doesn’t matter what I think.”
In New Jersey, a student’s mom accused a high school teacher of trying to influence the class with their brand of political thinking by displaying an anti-Trump T-shirt.
How political should public school teachers be allowed to get in their classrooms? https://t.co/6PhNRN4gUV
— New Jersey 101.5 (@nj1015) March 5, 2019
The shirt resembled Barack Obama’s hope and change but replaced those words with “Nope” and “Vive la résistance” underneath a picture of the current president, the local Morristown Daily Record reports.
This is not just about the teacher being anti-Trump.
Teachers are in a position of power and are supposed to be looked up to and respected, so they need to keep their political beliefs out of the classroom. Students also need to learn to respect each other’s opinion and learn how to debate in a respectful way to each other.
I managed to get through high school without knowing my teacher’s political views. Why is it so difficult today for teachers not to bring their opinions into a classroom? I think they should be allowed to wear t-shirts and hats that they want to wear without being beaten up or suspended as long as it is in good taste. They need to realize that there are different opinions from theirs, but that they can all still live together as one student body.
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Based on required filings with the federal government, it is estimated that between 1990 and 2002, eighty percent of the NEA’s substantial political contributions went to Democratic Party candidates and ninety-five percent of donations went to Democrats in 2012.
How about just teaching the Constitution? People may come to realize that it isn’t about Trump.
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Would the school have allowed a student to wear a pro Trump shirt .
You have to remember that these teachers are the product of their educational experience. Most went to leftist propaganda factories, also known as State Universities. Bastions of socialist thought, no other thought is permissible. Socialist Globalism at work here shaping the next generations minds.
You have to remember that these teachers are the product of their educational experience. Most went to leftist propaganda factories, also known as State Universities. Bastions of socialist thought, no other thought is permissible. Socialist Globalism at work here shaping the next generations minds.
If a teacher had worn a Trump shirt the teacher would have been suspended on the spot
This government public school teacher is an internal enemy of this Constitutional Republic, would not today be allowed to indoctrinate students in charter or private or parochial schools where parents participate controlling the curriculum. For about 60 years, because citizens felt bad having strayed from their moral foundations and not attending church, parents of public school children became accustomed to relying on government schools to set up the curriculum. Parents permitted public schools for whatever reason to not provide a historically correct course on U.S. History and to pass an 8th grade test on the U.S. Constitution before students graduate from high school. It’s time for parents and interested parties to stop reacting. Start calling. Check out school curriculums.
This government public school teacher is an internal enemy of this Constitutional Republic, would not today be allowed to indoctrinate students in charter or private or parochial schools where parents participate controlling the curriculum. For about 60 years, because citizens felt bad having strayed from their moral foundations and not attending church, parents of public school children became accustomed to relying on government schools to set up the curriculum. Parents permitted public schools for whatever reason to not provide a historically correct course on U.S. History and to pass an 8th grade test on the U.S. Constitution before students graduate from high school. It’s time for parents and interested parties to stop reacting. Start calling. Check out school curriculums.
That teacher needs to be fired.
Another reason to be ashamed of the state that I must live. But I DO assure you, not ALL places here are like that! I dunno where this school is but I can garentee it;’s not in Midland Park, Hawthorne, Paramus, or Fair Lawn.
Another reason to be ashamed of the state that I must live. But I DO assure you, not ALL places here are like that! I dunno where this school is but I can garentee it;’s not in Midland Park, Hawthorne, Paramus, or Fair Lawn.
So is this (Teacher??) going to skate by with the brain washing attempt? Probably so. After all it’s New Jersey.
The NEA what a propaganda mill, even rich democrats that can afford private school for their kids have to bribe and cheat on their taxes to get their kids into good colleges. It is not simply their lack of values but a overt disregard perhaps even resentment of what superlative education should be. the NEA has helped create the most unfit mentally and physically socialist parasites in the history of man for the sake of sameness they endorse mediocrity and a class of Elois.
I can remember when teachers were teachers not party members.
The NEA what a propaganda mill, even rich democrats that can afford private school for their kids have to bribe and cheat on their taxes to get their kids into good colleges. It is not simply their lack of values but a overt disregard perhaps even resentment of what superlative education should be. the NEA has helped create the most unfit mentally and physically socialist parasites in the history of man for the sake of sameness they endorse mediocrity and a class of Elois.
I can remember when teachers were teachers not party members.
So the left can have meltdowns and demand suspensions whenever students wears a pro-Trump shirt or hat, but this is ok? I don’t have an issue with anyone displaying their beliefs, but don’t bash one side and not the other. The hyprocrisy screams!
hey man…show both sides and I don’t give a Schiff!!
hey man…show both sides and I don’t give a Schiff!!
That’s OK, we’re free speechers, not leftist twits. Let him do his thing.