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mlands wrote:
In response the person who is supportive of all of our educators, I will say that the colleges I attended employed a large number of left wing liberal teachers. When I attended my first 100 level English class as soon as the teacher who was a very left wing feminist found out I was conservative in my writing, she made a big effort to give me very poor grades. Even before I wrote my first assignment she said that she wanted to fail me for my political leanings. She discussed politics a lot and wanted to know where we all stood. Immedaitely I took the same exact class again with a different teacher who was not left wing and I earned an A. After that I made sure I was careful to avoid all the left wing teachers.
Bad experience. That was wrong of her, and you should have filed a complaint and changed sections as soon as you could. That one experience however cannot possibly be used to paint the entire American higher education system as radically left-wing.
FYI, I have a 3.5 GPA and educated at NOVA, UMBC, Univ. of MD Europe, GMU, and attended seminars at many others. There is overall a better learning atmosphere in the evening professional classes, whereas liberalism is more often taught in the freshman-sophomore level classes. I don't think that 100 level English composition classes are the place for anti-Replubican and anti-conservative speeches by professors do you? Today if I had the same thing happen I would file a complaint.
Funny you should say all that; I got more conservative leanings out of my English profs and more leftist viewsout of history. When you study Thoreau and other trancedentalist works, you can't help but get a very libertarian view out of it.
Where do you think that the "guns are bad" education comes from? In grade classes there was a child suspended for drawing a gun! Another kid was suspended for drawing war pictures. Somebody is educating teachers to enforce this garbage and guns are bad. No wonder so many parents sedn their kids to private schools or home school them.
"Guns are bad" education comes from anti-gun orreactionary parents, who upon any mention of a possible threat to their children scream at the school board until they get their way. Such decisions are not based on consequences, intent or even any inherent maliceof the action in question. I read recently about disciplinary action in my old middle school stemming from a student's "what I did last summer" essay involving a hunting trip with her dad. She didn't even talk about shooting a deer (the essay was published in an editorial); the essay centered on the father-daughter bonding experience. Well, a classmate told their conservationist parents about the student's essay, and they could not be ignored until the principal disciplined the student, because under school policy firearms were abanned topic of discussion except as immediately necessary (history for example can mention the fact that guns were used in war).
I agree, it's bull. If there really is a problem related to aweapon, andthe weapon has not actually been brought into the school,it is cause for talking to parents and to the kid, not punishment. But, like Haley Joel Osment's charactersaid in "The Sixth Sense": "They don't have meetings about rainbows".
I do not however blame the schools. They simply have to deal with parents who have the dangerouscombination of not bothering to take time to be parents to their own kids, and expecting the schoool to do a better job of controlling them when the school has far more of a problem and a far lower kid/adult ratio than any but the biggest Mormon families.
