I don’t know... I’ve heard that, but my experience was that well-written papers get a good grade, period. Of course, I used to wear my cammie jacket and steel-toed boots to school, and one of my professors was overhead to say “I’m afraid she’s going to kill me in the stairwell one dark night,” so that might have worked in my favor.
“my experience was that well-written papers get a good grade, period.”
You were lucky. I had pals in journalism school, and you really had to be liberal to get a grade and graduate.
A friend’s kid was always in trouble in High School for inappropriate attitudes, no matter how the paper was written. Several of us grownups would help with the extra work involved in, for example, proving to the teacher that the first slaves in the USA were indentured slaves and not chattel slaves. he teacher rejected that the first time with a D, saying among other things that “the United States Park Service is not a valid source”. With extra research the kid got an A, begrudgingly, and it was the same with the next paper (in which it was stated that the Holocaust killed more non-Jews than Jews, a view earning a D). It took extra work to be conservative and get good grades, the go-along or true believer kids didn’t have to.
I can’t imagine what would happen if a kid said something against gay marriage or global warming today.
With education filters that strong, it’s no wonder that journalists, teachers, and schools have lots of people who at least act liberal in public.