[My Favorite Headache]

Go for it.

[kc8ukw]

Yep. Today’s students are much too political, I think. I once helped teach a summer physics course for interested and gifted 8-10 graders. We watched a speech Bush gave promoting an expansion of our missions to Mars. You’d think budding physicists would love the idea, but because it was being proposed by Bush, they mostly just mocked him.

[Coldwater Creek]

My guess is that you will be looking for a new job. Hope that your area has some good private schools that will hire you.

Government schools = child abuse.

[Mediocrates]

What would Sarah do?

[stuartcr]

The whole thing sounds like a set-up to me, and you didn’t get the results you wanted...or did you know what the kids would say, and just needed a reason to vent?

[Kleon]

It’s just a couple of kids. Get over it.

[polymuser]

You might be interested in The Frankfurt School of the mid-1900's and its minions' effects on Columbia U., professors, the NEA and public education. They birthed consensus-building and sensitivity training.

[JavaJumpy]

It would be interesting to have a civics lesson with a mock budget - and how plans are actually worked through the Congress before they become reality. Too many are thinking the President will do all and I’m astounded at how many younger people don’t understand the role of Congress and believe that because 0bama is a good speaker, he’ll enact all this good legislation.

[FreeAtlanta]

Please do it. If we don’t make a stand now, we may not be able to in the future.

[pepsi_junkie]

If this helps out at all, my wife is student teaching and she told me her middle school class had to report on who their families were voting for. Apparantly this was to be the basis of a presentation they would be making (why reporting on who your parents are voting for is something done in a school I don't know and neither does my wife...remembers, she's just the student teaching assistant). Anyway, one of the kids was looking glum and my wife asked what was wrong. He said he was a republican and everyone else was a democrat and they'd give him all kinds of grief over it. My wife told him "Sometimes it's hard to be a republican in New Jersey" and left it at that.

My point is, the kids are impacted by this stuff too. If it made you uncomfortable you can bet there were kids in the school who also were. Why is that considered useful in a school?

[jilliane]

Get this...the school I work for had a student run mock election...results posted today...

44% McCAin
30% Obama
26% Others (mixed between Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr)