Students protesting teacher they say pushes conservative views on them

students should point at her and laugh.

Simply ask her to prove her postulate using the scientific method. Like the way a chemistry demonstration is done.. If she can't then she proves her theory is invalid...

if I was in H.S. today and I had a H.S. history teacher like I did back then, knowing what I know today, I would tell him where to shove his Lost Cause states-rights B.S.

He literally had a hammer and sickle flag on his desk. Everything was how great life was in the USSR and how the capitalist system was collapsing. I can't remember what he was actually supposed to be teaching, but that's all I remember from that semester of class.

He was hysterically fearful of communism and constantly talked about the communist threat. He had a map on the wall of "communist" nations - all in red - and when I questioned whether Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, etc. we're actually communist he asked me why I was a communist sympathizer.

If it is not already being done.

Business schools are rather conservative, with a few who can't help themselves. But religious sorts, of various stripes, pop up here and there too. The right rails against the left, but the left falls behind. But I would also say balance is lacking. Teachers, to avoid conflict, to focus on their subject matter, to do their jobs, should be advised to try to walk down the middle, but allow a left or a right point of view here or there. Total neutrality is devoid of context and meaning. You can't convert everyone no matter how hard you try.

I've got the list.

...it's probably money needlessly spent.
The economics community in grad schools have been hugely populated by hard core libertarians since well before i was in MBA school.
Since my focus was in economics & finance i knew lots of instructors. I met ONE Keynesisn. All the rest were Cato, Heartland, or U of C types.
That was way before Chuckles got involved.

Who do you think founded Cato.

Apparently he doesn't see his spending as needless. His money built ALEC, which, as you know, offers libertarian-to-neocon templates for non-lawyers in state legislatures that have swung their states to the Right -- like WI, MI, AZ and PA.

Democrats have had to fend off his ALEC crap in these battlegrounds for decades.

He was a Mont Pelerin president, and Frank Knight, one of its founders, was the head of the University of Chicago Economics Dept, which boasted itself the most conservative on the planet, regularly validated by friends influencing the awarding of Nobel prizes. James M Buchanan got one of them; he's the guy who wrote the language of economics that systematically covered up southern institutionalized racism. He's the guy who literally wrote Pinochet's constitution for minority rule.

In the last 20 years, Koch has impacted the federal courts.



Now he's near winning an Article V convention to rewrite OUR Constitution. It will likely have the same required 2/3 vote to create ANY federal laws, or to federally fund pandemic help, national parks privatizations, or climate change crises. Finally, what will be the public's chances of a 2/3 vote to codify any law that his SCOTUS strikes down.

https://billmoyers.com/story/kochs-to-rewrite-constitution/

I'll say this: you might minimize his impact, but Jane Mayer and others wouldn't have written books that center on him and his influence across the oligarchic class if he hadn't intended to capture the United States government. Now we on the other side of his network smokescreen ignore him at our peril.

https://www.amycook2022.com/platform

Wattadumbass.

She has a tattoo, so she's clearly in violation of whatever the Scripture is about marking your body.

She's violatin' the Scripture! Clearly she's heading for H E Double Hockey Sticks! Can't pick and choose yer theology, I was told.

No way she can be a REAL Christian.

Leviticus 19:28—"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you"—so as to prohibit tattoos, and perhaps even makeup.

Ugly on the inside.

Did they really think kids and parents would simply roll over and play dead while they hijacked public school curriculums to spread their revisionist rightwing history and nonsensical conservative christian superstitions?

They want private education.

raised in a red state but they still know bullshit when they hear it

I bet next week's curriculum will be how Joe Biden is the devil.

I didn't have the good sense not to argue with them.

Maybe it was because I enjoyed arguing with teachers like that that I went on to become a lawyer. Or it could be that the personality trait that caused me to argue with them is why I went on to become a lawyer.

Whatever the hell that means.

I remember an English teacher who flat out proselytized all of her students and made negative comments to Jewish students and other students of non-Christian religions. NOTHING happened to her despite complaints. I think it must have just been the time when people still got away with shit like that.

But thankfully today is different. Even in conservative Oklahoma, this shouldn't fly. I'm pleased to see that there ARE people who are complaining.

Conservative garbage. It was 1968, but politics really had no place in a 10th grade English class. Some things never change.

talked about happy slaves, happy negroes. I wish I had been as strong as these students who are protesting. It was the early days of school desegregation in GA and we looked at each other when these ignorant comments were made, but we didn't feel like we had the power to take on the school system.

The students should ask her about conservative/Christian pedophiles and other examples of their morality.

Jesus had a lot to say about divorce and possible resultant adultery from remarriage.

Maybe some Bible quotes about killing babies and incest and such for her wall.

It warmed my heart to see hundreds of students saying they have had enough; "No justice, no peace." I can't imagine the never-ending barriers and differential treatment being brought to bear since birth because of SKIN COLOR. Such utter bullshit and contrary to our CONSTITUTION. No wonder the right-wing hate the Constitution so much. The promotion of all men created equal really pisses them off. To add women to that makes their heads explode for the last 100 years. Because as Orwell pointed out in 1984, "Some are created more equal than others." I think I got that right.

I thought that they couldn’t make kids uncomfortable.

Oh, that was about making white kits uncomfortable about slavery.

Sorry, never mind.

(Where the bleep is my sarcasm button?)

Or at a concert. Politics neednt be a part of every damn thing. And I love politics...the debate, the machinations of getting laws passed, working in campaigns, reading blogs of all persuasions.

Flying today from a few days in Tuurks and Caicos, I had no idea the politics of my pilots. Didn't need to know, didn't want to know.

He informed us in the beginning of the year. You will never know if I am a hawk or a dove. Mostly the class was a group debate. There was a lot to debate in the early 70s. Americans were being sent to the jungle with guns that jammed.
I look back with fondness, he taught us how to think! Not what to think, how. Mr Kern thank you.

The problem now is that the right only wants their message distributed. They are getting their way and we must stop them.
It is great that the students are saying NO. That is good stuff.

Very informative class. It didn't involve religious bullcrap and was very pointed on societal law and processes. It seems students today aren't exposed to critical thinking until they get to college.

from my department head and principal when I discussed the historicity of some figures from the past.

They included
- King Arthur
- Robin Hood
- William Tell
- Siddhārtha Gautama
- Mohammed
and I included Jesus Christ as well as Siddhartha Gautama and Mohammed

My dept head and principal got calls from parents who bitched that I was teaching Christianity and others bitching I was talking down Christianity and alternated between being a liberal commie and a conservative fascist.

Students may have some motivations they aren’t telling us. Or they might be on target.

I resented her pushing her religion on us. Therefore, I used my big denim bag as a pillow and spread out my curly "hippie" hair and rested until she was ready to teach which was about 30 minutes into class.. One day she stood in front of me and stated " girls who put their heads on their desk will not learn shorthand". I ignored her and practiced my shorthand lessons and and earned an A in all quarters . I'm sure it pissed her off to be forced to give me all A's when I repeatedly ignored her sermons. Funny thing, the one day the principal sat in the class she had no sermon that day.