I agree with some of this... however, I never said...

2009-09-27T19:52:41.917-05:00

I agree with some of this... however, I never said or think that teachers are the enemy. On the contrary, thet are near the top of importance to students.

But...As an example, let's point out the Obama song at that elementary school. The administrators said they knew nothing. Teachers have the direct line to a student's ear... that's big.

Education is by no means conservative. The government (federal/state/local) is in the business of education. That doesn't mean I disagree, but that's a liberal/more government approach.

There is zero choice about schools. If you're not rich enough for private school, you are forced to a public school. Inner-city kids are forced to go to bad schools.

There's alot more to education policy than I can write now, but suffice it to say, more choice is the key to any reform.

Maybe most teachers are liberal, but most school a...

2009-09-27T01:16:57.095-05:00

Maybe most teachers are liberal, but most school administrators (the people who really call the shots) are conservative. Education policy tends to support conservatism. Education reformers, who really do little more than write books they can sell in bulk to their students who are required to read them, tend to be liberal. I agree that Barack Obama should have little to do with education, short of ensuring that there be a multitude of options for parents.

Teachers have little say over what they teach. College professors are a different story, but to make additional efforts to tie teachers' hands is not the right thing to do. What teachers should be doing is teaching all viewpoints, they should celebrate the variety of backgrounds and social contexts that are relevant to students and leave room for the students to make their own decisions about what they learn. School is not a place of propaganda, but it also shouldn't be a factory in which teachers regurgitate pre-approved facts. Teachers, even liberal ones, are not the enemy. As a liberal non-teacher, I do not consider it my responsibility to convert people. I do consider it beneficial to dialogue and let people make their own decisions. It is unfair to imply, as I think you do, that teachers have a vendetta against the country and want to turn us all into liberals. Many of them just want to teach us to think deeply about things.

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