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Before I begin, I would just like to formally introduce myself on DU. My name is Aaron, I'm 16 years old, and I'm from New York City, New York.
Anyway, let me begin, so in New York State in order to graduate, one must take a Health course. I know it sounds stupid, but for me its an easy 95. Regardless, my teacher is former military, pro-small government, and around fifty years old. He also has a sticker saying that he supports the separation of "Darwin and state," so it comes as now surprise that he is a Republican.
So in today's class, I walked in and saw on the board "$712 billion cut from Medicare" and an arrow pointing to AARP. This didn't come as a surprise since he done enough Obama-bashing for a lifetime. Anyway, I, who is not a fan of political discussion with teachers, thought to myself, seriously. So, we begin discusses what AARP actually does and why it endorsed the Affordable Care Act. He came to the conclusion that AARP endorsed the Affordable Care Act simply because its "Medicare cuts" forced seniors to get more supplement coverage from AARP. In other words, lobbying. It's an interesting argument that sounds reasonable, obviously it's was a bunch of stuff, malarkey if you please.
I'd had enough. I'd allowed him to walk over the Affordable Care Act for nearly two months, and allowed him to spew GOP talking points to the fellow classmates. I had heard this Medicare crap all throughout the summer, the conventions, and the debates. I, being a policy wonk, had that Joe Biden smile of death on my face as I raised my hand. When I was called, I quickly pointed out that it was not $712 billion in cuts but actually $716 billion. Next, I pointed out that the Medicare cuts wasn't from coverage to seniors, but actually from wasteful spending to hospitals and big pharma. Finally, I said that the Paul Ryan's budget also cut the same number, but the cuts under "Obamacare" extended Medicare by eight years. As I spoke, I realized that the class favored by facts over his talking points.
He tried to cut me off, but I persisted. I, then, pointed out the Washington Post had given it four pinocchios, and that PolitiFact.com (I had also pointed out that it was an arm of the Tampa Bay Times and was a winner of the Pultizer Prize) had deemed it as utterly false. He, then, said, "The Washington Post endorsed Obama. It's not true." I simply, "No, it's called facts." The class, in unison, yelled, "Oh!" My teacher looked at me with that face (the "I know I just got fact-checked face" , and had no reply.
Shut him up real good...
Edit: He also attempted to tell me and my friend that Fox News wasn't biased.
Note: I attend a Catholic High School on a scholarship; since most NYC high schools are terrible especially in the Bronx.
deaniac21
(6,747 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)still worth calling the guy out.
AaronMayorga
(128 posts)but so does the NRA and US Chamber of Commerce. My point was this mythical cutting of benefits by the AHA simply wasn't true
Cha
(295,899 posts)keeps on going. Important to stand up to it any chance we get.
Like that "less ships in the Navy than in 1916" Bulloney that mitt's been saying for months and again last night in the debate when Pres Obama was READY for him..
http://theobamadiary.com/
The gop have nothing but lies and bogus talking points.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,496 posts)It is no different from any other health care that a retiree might enjoy if they receive it.
Medicare only covers 80% of covered expenses. So what is a person suppose to do if they don't have insurance that covers the other 20%?
I don't totally support AARP but I don't consider this part something to take issue.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)...than AAA is an insurance company. AARP is a policy / advocacy group for seniors (as AAA is for drivers).
It lends its brand insurance companies in order to generate revienew to support its non-profit programs. Seniors need insurance and by buying AARP branded products they not only get a service they need, they also help out a policy / advocacy group that supports them and their interests.
I'm a member of AARP. I appreciate their work on my behalf and on behalf of all seniors.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)... a non-profit advocacy organization. Like many such organizations they license their brand to companies that provide products and services, including insurance. But they are not an insurance company.
http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/info-2011/what-we-do.html
"Advocacy -AARP fights for 50 and over individuals and their families at the local, state and national levels. Last year, we won many battles on behalf of older Americans.... This year at AARP, we are continuing our work to protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare, to save you money on your utility bills and to improve your access to quality health care. Whether in the nation's capital, in statehouses across the country or in the courts, we're in your corner, fighting on the issues that matter to you and your family. To learn more about our advocacy, please visit our Advocacy section on AARP.org."
http://www.aarp.org/content/aarp/en/home/politics-society/advocacy.html
http://www.aarphealthcare.com/important-disclosures.html
AARP and its affiliate are not insurance agencies or carriers and do not employ or endorse individual agents, brokers, producers, representatives or advisors.
AARP Health is a collection of health-related products, services and insurance programs made available by AARP. Neither AARP nor its affiliate is the insurer.
AARP contracts with insurers to make coverage available to AARP members. Insurers and providers pay a fee to AARP and its affiliate for use of the AARP intellectual property. Amounts paid are used for the general purposes of AARP and its members.
AARP does not recommend health-related products, services, insurance or programs. Insurance products carrying the AARP name are intended to be competitive products and may not be the lowest priced products. You are strongly encouraged to evaluate your needs and compare products.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)But I hope you weren't counting on a good grade in that class; you know how Republicans can be...
AaronMayorga
(128 posts)that Allen West was a good candidate.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)are filled with these types by now since they can get away with more at privates but stay strong
One thing we told the young ins is.......... that all your life you will have bosses, dates, friends try to sway you to their beliefs and that is all they are > their beliefs not facts.
Everyone has beliefs so try to form yours by weighing the facts then make up your own mind away from the noise..............
Funny the teachers are so off that even young kids already know now days when one is out of bounds
It is hard for all kids now everywhere
So take the good education part and do not get too caught up wasting energy with debates
All through life you will find some can retaliate if in a place of power if you alone protest too much
So organize and pick what your fights are carefully and where they can enact change or thought
just imo -you are young and smart and may have better ideas and sound like you can handle this - good luck
and good for you!!!!
Grins
(7,132 posts)But...but...but our schools are filled with liberal teachers!
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)my civics-teaching wife would be thrown out on her ear if she took a liberal slant. Conservative ideas she could probably get away with in this blood red part of California, but being progressively liberal, she has to play neutral in the classroom.
patrice
(47,992 posts)Carolina
(6,960 posts)Bozita
(26,955 posts)And you've already gained my respect.
Keep on posting here. I'll be looking for more of your stuff.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Hope to see you in both places often.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)Maybe he'll think twice before spewing RW lies in class next time.
imanamerican63
(13,668 posts)It sums up what they think know or want to hear! Keep smiling like Joe does!
Also, welcome to DU!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)If this guy is true to the republican nature ... Kiss that "easy 95" bye, bye.
But welcome to the family!
StarryNite
(9,363 posts)it would still be sooooo worth it.
beac
(9,992 posts)Good for you for standing up for the truth. Tomorrow, ask him about R&R's "coupon care" and how in the world that could possibly improve the ""Health" of seniors.
roody
(10,849 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)staffing contracts "Medicare Cuts" and that's just the tip of this particular iceberg.
Perhaps you have seen commercials about how easy it is to get Medicare to pay most of the price of motorized wheelchairs? Guess who owns a BIG piece of that action?
http://www.thenation.com/article/170470/tagg-team-romney-family-recipe-crony-capitalism
In 2007, the Scooter Store gave up $13 million in Medicare payments and paid $4 million to settle with the Justice Department over allegations that it had overbilled for its electric wheelchairs. The company, which has been bleeding money over the years as regulators moved to curb waste, still faces challenges that could make or break its business modelchallenges that could be mitigated by pressure from the executive branch.
A Romney administration, for example, would have a role in the fate of a recently launched pilot program ensuring that patients see a doctor face to face to determine if a Medicare scooter is medically necessarya program that has reportedly already reduced billings to the Scooter Store. Another challenge for the company is Section 3136 of the Obama administrations Affordable Care Act. If Romney wins and repeals significant portions of the ACA, would he retain this provision, which compels Medicare to have a competitive bidding process for motorized wheelchairs?
Really! You did just make my day; I was just talking on FaceBook to one of the younger social justice activists that I know and she told me how a local candidate visited one of her classes at UMKC and the class just was NOT passive at all. They asked tough Civil Rights questions and really "talked back" on the issues, especially about education. You just put the icing on that particular cake for me today!
ejbr
(5,852 posts)brewens
(13,393 posts)I don't let anyone that doesn't wash their hands after taking a crap tell me anything.
Tien1985
(920 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Welcome to DU.
Habibi
(3,596 posts)students with teachers such as these should be treated to "Fact check!" scenarios.
mazzarro
(3,450 posts)You do deserve all the accolades that can be mustered for this great feat. More of it young man and be proud of yourself 'cause your great!
K8-EEE
(15,667 posts)that he must be thinking of --- rip off to taxpayers AND set in motion all sorts of supplemental ins. scams (Bush era natch.)
Here in CA we have to take this "Health 1" class in college I have to tell you as boring as I thought it was it was one of the most important classes I ever took because oddly a couple of years later I kept thinking of what the teacher said about tobacco addiction and decided that although I thought I could quit whenever when I was in school I was in fact hooked.....and I remembered how show said, the longer you put off quitting the harder, so I quit for my 25th b-day - 26 years ago!!
The teacher was an ex-smoker and had mentioned swimming regime as an anti-smoking program because you can't smoke when wet, and, you can exercise and breathe better a little more every day. It totally worked! I couldn't believe how I was remembering later all this stuff that bored me so much at the time, you never know!
TlalocW
(15,358 posts)But I've seen the vindictiveness of teachers so be careful. In college, a professor of mine didn't like another student's liberal politics (this was an advanced math class where politics didn't belong), and he erased parts of my friend's work on tests to give him a lower grade. My friend was a bona-fide math genius though so he started doing everything in pen and stymied the professor.
It's amazing how teachers can really make a school. In high school, even though I was in a small farming community in Kansas, the teachers kept their opinions to themselves for the most part, even when asked, because they were there to teach us their particular subject. After I graduated, the science department really went downhill according to a friend who was two years behind me - while the chemistry/physics teacher and the biology teacher were still top-notch, the general science guy they brought in tried to teach that men had one less rib than women because of the account in Genesis, and that thunder causes lightning, not the other way around. Fortunately, my friend was like you and argued strongly against him.
TlalocW
ashling
(25,771 posts)I wish you were a student in one of my government classes.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)serious trouble for his politicking, unless he can show how it is an essential part of the course of studies.
AaronMayorga
(128 posts)But, I respect him. He seems like a decent person; I simply couldn't allow him to regurgitate GOP talking points to my friends who may not follow politics as closely as I do.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)I taught at a private Catholic school while writing books against the Bush administration and the wars. The admin was, to a person, very very liberal, and they made it God-wrathingly clear that NO POLITICS shall enter the classroom by way of a teacher.
Take care with that broad brush.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)rurallib
(62,344 posts)and guts. Standing up to a teacher like that is not easy.
May you have a long and happy stay at DU.
I will look forward to contributing to your first campaign.
Keafirehouse88
(25 posts)I grew up and currently live in NYC as well. I thought by law, a teacher wasn't suppose to talk about personal politics? Oh we'll at least you got your point across
AaronMayorga
(128 posts)nightscanner59
(802 posts)I hope the class represents a challenge and interesting discussions for you. I do, as other DU'ers mention here, remain highly suspicious of right-wing brainwashing efforts... especially in schools.
Keep a log, Aaron. Start with a couple notes on how this exchange went and any changes in how this teacher behaves towards you. Post it on DU as you have here, for instance, just so you have a memo months from now when this is a distant memory. Mention to your classmates when something seems to support a wingnut viewpoint and note who agrees that it seems a little skewed. Keep it to yourself till the end of the year, should it seem you are being discriminated against.
Hopefully this teacher won't let biases affect things like grading for you, but just in case it does, you don't want to be in a "your word against his" situation fighting for your passing grade. Just keep a log till the year is up, and I hope you don't have to utilize it.
ecstatic
(32,566 posts)I wish I had stood up to a former teacher who lowered my grade due to a non-related incident.
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)... or economics for that matter, in health class?
Shouldn't this be about sex, drugs, diet, exercise, disease or something else along those lines?
AaronMayorga
(128 posts)But, I think that he's just trying to push an agenda
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)There's plenty of "government involvement" that would be far more applicable to you and your classmates: things like food safety, water quality, vaccines, etc. This is not relevant to teens.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)BarackTheVote
(938 posts)Well done! Never lose that fire!
Entheory
(6 posts)At 16 you're smarter than middle aged tea baggers.
I salute you my young friend...
rosesaylavee
(12,126 posts)Good for you! You are learning to think critically and make your decisions!
Welcome to DU!
Cha
(295,899 posts)Very excellent at writing your story, too..I was enthalled. YAY!
Student schools teacher..how often does that happen? Your teacher has been asking for this for quite awhile it seems but not many kids would be able to follow through so brilliantly!
Thank you!
There should be a law against teachers pushing propaganda.
spooky3
(34,302 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Yeah, they did suck.
Well done!
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)From their website:
Healthcare
Since our founding more than 40 years ago, NETWORK has advocated for accessible, affordable, quality, universal healthcare. We believe, on the basis of Catholic Social Teaching, that access for all to affordable, quality healthcare is a fundamental social good i.e., something that benefits all of us as well as a human right.
The passage and signing in March 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (healthcare reform) marked the first time in U.S. history that our government has committed to steps to ensure that people of all ages, including those with preexisting health concerns, have healthcare coverage. The new law does not have everything we wanted, but it is a historic step.
The new law promotes quality healthcare that is more accessible, affordable, universal and pro-life.
Specific changes in our healthcare system are occurring year-by-year as aspects of the new law come into effect.
Our support of the current law does not mean that we are completely satisfied, however. There are a number of steps we still need to take to improve our U.S. healthcare system. http://www.networklobby.org/issues/healthcare
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)IT got to the point that when my hand went up, the teacher would shut up and move on quickly, knowing I would decimate anything the fool said.
Then I became a teacher of history/government/economics. Students try to challenge me, but facts are on my side and ideology and hubris is on theirs.
Good job, kid! You make this ACLU member history teacher proud! I would love you to be a student in my class.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)More need to do this.
rationalcalgarian
(294 posts)Love it!
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)...I've actually been using it on DU like this:
Joe Biden
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)descriptive. I knew the exact picture the instant I read it.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)high numbers in whatever passes for composition these days (if there is any writing classes). You know how to turn a phrase.
Sorry you can't vote this time around. Welcome to the crowd.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)It would be nice to see more high schooler's informed and curious about politics and the government. It would be really nice to never see Jay Leno go out and ask who the President or Vice President is and have people give him really dumb answers or stare at him open-mouthed, blinking.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)You'll have my vote.
Good Job.
You restore my faith in the future
Cheers!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)a good grade by pointing out that your teacher is a willfully ignorant dufus.
Keep telling the truth as you know it, Aaron, and spread the word to your classmates and your elders.
It's your future and your planet that you're defending.
And welcome to DU. We need young people's enthusiasm and energy!
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)And very brave. I see a promising future for you.
-LOKI -BAD FOR YA
(308 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Very proud of your ability to think on your feet and have the facts straight! That is not an easy task.
I agree with a poster above about researching the Nuns on the Bus positions for future use.
Keep your head up and continue to know the truth.
go west young man
(4,856 posts)Young people like yourself are the hope of the nation. You write very well and stick to your guns. Judging from the teachers mindset he will probably attempt to unjustly punish you for making him look as pathetic as he really is but keep your head up. People like him are weak and sad and their fear and ignorance is hurting the country. Especially as he attempts to spread it to teenagers.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Maybe he shouldn't.
Sotomayor went there but she's probably not the alum of which the CHS system is most proud.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)Only one was obnoxious about it. The two others (who I knew were Republicans) were actually two of my favorite teachers there.
txdemsftw
(461 posts)for the future. Not afraid to speak up and refuse to be bullied by repukes.
Good for you!!
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Fordham Prep!
No?
Spellman!!
No?
Hayes !!!
No....
Mount!!!!!
I give up. I went to Stepinac. Back when Martha Washington was a babe and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Then I taught in the public school system for... let's just say... a long time.
Nice job educating your RW teeech. CHSs have always had a RW bias.
There are actually some pretty good public HSs in the Bronx. But none in which you or the teacher would be able to have that kind of lively intellectual/political exchange. So I give the CHS system credit for that.
I'm in Riverdale now. Welcome to DU.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)...I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
(watch 'Casablanca' if you haven't yet to get the reference)
As a former teacher who was writing anti-Bush and anti-Iraq-war books while still teaching, I felt it was my highest duty (beyond educating my students) to keep my own politics out of the classroom. Kids need to figure that stuff out on their own, and I did not want my students a) parroting my beliefs back at me to curry favor for a good grade, or b) afraid to express themselves for fear of getting a bad grade.
Cheers, and welcome to DU.
Catherine Vincent
(34,485 posts)Maybe you should teach the class.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)I don't understand why our world is so twisted in so many ways but it is. Things like Fox (non)news are kind of like more drugs for addicts. The brains of these fox addicts are too lazy to think so they just turn on the boob tube get the points on what they think they should think. It's a vicious little circle but thank goodness, looking at the numbers its looking like a critical mass has finally fallen off it.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)wryter2000
(46,016 posts)And good job!
AAO
(3,300 posts)prairierose
(2,145 posts)it's nice to see young people here, especially young people who are engaged with their future.
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)rightsideout
(978 posts)Armed with the facts you put him in his place.
BadGimp
(4,009 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)and glad to know young people such as yourself, have the future in your hands. It makes me breathe a lot eaiser! Thank you!
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." ~George Orwell
appleannie1
(5,043 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)Welcome to our mad house.
BlueGirlRedState
(417 posts)Good for you, Aaron!!!!
At the Open House in September, the teacher said she posts a political cartoon every day and they discuss current events.
"I'll be making little Republicans out of all of your children!"
My daughter comes home with "Miss Wilson said...." every day and it usually involves Obama increased the debt, Obama lied, etc. etc.
She's really stuck who to believe because she's always been taught to respect teachers yet she hears us discussing politics all the time, so she usually just gets confused and doesn't want to hear the details.
I don't want her in the position of being ridiculed by the teacher, and most likely she's the only child from a Democratic family.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)esp. considering all the molestation
but even for these political reasons/ sex /environment views oh whatever... not to disrespect them or disobey but have limits
see my post above re 6th grade 12yr old and what we have done from the get go!!
my own son said " I am too young to be hearing this stuff"!!!!
I agree and glad we all caught this early in the year
and no will not be fighting it through a kid like the teacher is!!!
avebury
(10,946 posts)she was incapable of presenting a balanced presentation of politics and what is going on in this country then she has no business even bringing up the subject. It is not the job of a teacher to try to brainwash a child into buying into the teacher's political nonsense. And then I would have been having a talk with the Superintendent of the School and the School Board.
October
(3,363 posts)Welcome to DU.
Your future looks bright!
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)So they can indoctrinate our youth 24/7 with their BS.
TexasTowelie
(111,292 posts)We were warned about premarital sex because it causes Gentile diseases. The class was doomed since there weren't any Jewish people at my high school.
Thanks for presenting the facts and I hope that the teacher doesn't retaliate against you. Welcome to DU!
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)You'll find that DU, the major discussion boards, will be great to you.
Wheezy
(1,763 posts)Great job.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Did you ask him why it was that Fox News viewers were consistently uniformed and misinformed?
If I taught a class in Logic, I would have my students watch Fox News for an hour and count the Fallacies of Reference and all Logical Fallacies. You could fill a notebook! Even when reporting real events, they can present it in an illogical way.
beachgirl2365
(111 posts)My daughter experiences the same thing from her Economics teacher here in UT (GO figure!) Every week she has to write a summary on something from current events,..... Last week she gave a presentation on Sensata,..........sort of busted the lie that Rob-mey was a job creator, which BTW the teacher was spouting to some of the students just a couple days before............I'm a proud Mom, ......... as I'm sure your parents are too. Keep up the excellent work!
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)Welcome to DU! Red Chief is the smart as a whip boy kidnapped in an O. Henry story (The Ransom of Red Chief). Not only did you fact check him - sounds like he tried to hold your beautiful mind for ransom and decided to give it back due to these little things called 'Facts' and 'Reason'.
AaronMayorga
(128 posts)mwb970
(11,299 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)congratuatulations on having the fortitude and integrity to stand up to your teacher's lack either of facts or integrity (whichever shoe fits).
My personal feelings are that partisan politics have no place in the class room. One can have discussions on poltical situations, but one must stick to the facts, and any personal opinions/feelings must be labeled as such.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)And Welcome to DU!
alp227
(31,961 posts)Wow, good on you for standing up to that Fox News host disguised as a teacher! I also took a health science class in HS. Except at least my teachers (I went to HS in the San Francisco area) were not as doo doo dumb as this teacher, and the one who WAS a Republican (this was for AP US Gov/Politics) was still a cool, knowledgeable guy respected by us students in a rather left leaning neighborhood.
I hope you continue to check out the rest of DU and learn more about politics!
in the meantime please subscribe to my youtube channel for various clips of progressive talk radio (including my favorite evening talk show Mike Malloy). Also some more resources:
- Democracy Now!: A daily hour-long independent news show covering the big political news and other stories, from an angle you won't see on ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/the commercial media. You can hear it in NYC M-F at 8am on 99.5 WBAI or on youtube.com/democracynow for archives. It's such a great show I wake up at 5am in my part of the US just to hear the show live from the WBAI live stream.
- The Thom Hartmann Program: My favorite political talk radio show. Thom discusses the day's political news and even debates conservative advocates. M-F 3-6pm, in NYC on 1600 WWRL, also has a youtube channel, also streams online at livestream.com/thomhartmann or freespeech.org.
- The Young Turks: Daily online talk show hosted by Cenk Uygur, who provides a hard-hitting, funny, and in-depth take on politics (and some lighter subjects as well).
- The Norman Goldman Show: M-F 6pm-9pm (ET). Norman Goldman is a lawyer based in Los Angeles, and he provides a unique law-and-politics approach to his show. He also does "senior legal analyst" segments explaining the legalese behind what's going on. Listen live here, or if on a mobile phone select station 960 KNEW on the iHeartRadio app or Seattle's Progressive Talk on the TuneIn app.
- The Mike Malloy Show: M-F 9pm-midnight ET, live online streams (http://server2.whiterosesociety.org:8000/truthseeker) or here. Mike Malloy has a darker, angrier tone in his show, with 1960s/70s rock/psychedelic oldies as bumper music and Church Night Wednesdays with anti-religious rants. DU has a daily "truthseekers check in" thread at the General Discussion board at the top of the 9pm ET hour!
- Media Matters for America: The place to go to debunk the latest BS from Fox Boobs, Tush Limpballs, or Sean Insannity as well as how the "so called liberal media" like ABC and CBS aid/abet the right wing agenda.
- Addicting Info: Political news blog from a left wing perspective especially devoted to debunking right wing nonsense.
- Think Progress: A more serious version of Addicting Info, the blog of think tank Center for American Progress, also publishes many useful infographics even studies too.
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)The polls prove it.
I'm a teacher, and I wish I could give you an A+! Bravo, Aaron!
Mikeystyle
(208 posts)well done!
I wonder if your teacher was even smart enough to know he was lying in the first place.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)Your life is like a Chick tract
knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)I also used to teach in Catholic schools, so you get an extra hug from me.
You did just the right thing, and I find that really awesome. Great job!
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Have fun here!
ivanincali00
(30 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)This teacher is a tool. Unfortunately he has power over you. You will need to USE HIM like a tool.
It is what it is. Keep fighting the good fight!
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)Just because they keep repeating the lie doesn't make it true.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Good at any career you undertake. Thanks for the great post, and on behalf of my family that has already needed the new provisions of the ACA, thank you for defending it to this knucklehead.
NEOhiodemocrat
(912 posts)I went to Catholic schools back in the 60's and that is where I learned about social justice, sounds like the schools have changed a bit since I was young. Stay strong and keep up the good fight!