If it is a minority opinion then why the uproar? I really don't understand why the need to inform me of the subject ,etc. I mean it's all I've heard on most of the talk shows. I thought the end of the school system was upon us.
I agree he has a opinion, but to amplify somebody's opinion to some terrible disease inflicting our children our worse corrupting their minds, just seems to me a bit over the top. Politics infects everything in a sense. What technologies evolve, what papers get published, what art becomes mainstream, what ideas get expressed or what business gets done. I wish it was not so, but that's reality. Schooling in and of itself is a political institution, a place for pavlovian bells and various other forms of mind control, a place to create effecient worker bees and exploit the most gifted. Who are we kidding?Most of us have all gone through this system, have we not? To imply these kids can't handle teachers like this guy is to imply we wouldn't as well. He's nothing, just some guy teaching a class. Maybe next year we will have HAL9000 teachers and spayed and neutered curricula, God, I hope not.
To a large extent, schools were created to enculturate children and the social studies curriculum was created primarily to develop good citizens. Publically funded schools, by definition, reflect the values of the public. They have gotten so far away from this mission that many find themselves paying for schools that they don't approve of. I am sorry you are bored by this, but it won't go away. Schools are the biggest chunck of state budgets. Also, as everyone went to school, everyone has opinions on the subject. but, I think it is right that people want to take back the schools.