Teachers, Students, Classrooms, Education and Activism

At Hot Air: Teen Hunter Rogers, whose teacher said he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama, speaks out to Fox and Friends:

[She] always has open discussions about the presidents and candidates, and she doesn’t want to hear anything but what she believes, and if you disagree you get berated and put down, and I just decided to finally get some proof of it.

Rogers’ mother added:

“My biggest concern is that this ‘teacher’ is responsible for teaching my child and hundreds of others, and she is not teaching them factual information.”

Howard Portnoy points out:

A concern that is not raised is the inappropriateness of any teacher using her classroom as a bully pulpit to indoctrinate students regardless of the beliefs being shared.

As a product of the California Public School System in the 70’s and 80’s, I have no choice but to laugh out loud in reaction to the suggestion that it’s inappropriate for teachers to use the classroom as a bully pulpit. It would be more accurate to call it Standard Operating Procedure.

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