kind of what I'm doing, actually, except, as with you, I didn't retire from a lucrative career. You don't get rich in the military. I've been arguing with people on FR for a few years, here and there, now and again, about conservatives taking back the public schools. If we did that, at least enough to get the kids exposed to both sets of idea, and how they developed, I'd bet we'd win.
Yes, I think you're right. If people aren't willing to go in there and take the schools back, then how can they sit back and complain? But...they do... :)
susie
Well,I Do teach part time and I think its just as bad to INDOCTRINATE with conservative ideas as it is to do the usual liberal brainwashing that goes on today.
I question liberal orthodoxy all the time.Most kids where I live parrot it all the time without thinking.So I am constantly forcing them to dissect their beliefs and back them up with SOURCES and REAL SCHOLARSHIP,not"I feel that.....".That is not acceptable academic rigor.
Yet to stand up there in front of a class ramming GOP talking points down kid's throats is indefensable also.I will always demand critical thinking of my students and not replace an unquestioning ideology of one stripe with the opposite point of view.