[Allegra]

I had a high school Government class teacher who came right out and endorsed Marxism and Communism in the classroom on frequesnt occasions.

I would casually drop his comments to my parents at the dinner table just to watch them get enraged. My mother actually did something about it and it stopped, but that teacher never liked me after that.

Fortunately, this teacher never really influenced me. I had good parents who taught me common sense from an early age and saw his comments as BS even when I had a young skull full of mush.

That teacher's defeat really came when I voted for Reagan in 1980. And kept voting like that ever after. ;-)

[PJ-Comix]

I had a high school Government class teacher who came right out and endorsed Marxism and Communism in the classroom on frequesnt occasions.

I had a ninth grade Spanish teacher constantly tell us how great Castro was. The FUnnie thing was that she was Cuban. Anyway, she actually did move to Cuba like an IDIOT. Guess what happened to her? She was tossed in jail in Cuba. And that was the last we heard of her.

[tcrlaf]

Had one like this in High School, too, although too young to vote in Reagan's first, (Did the second, though!), he got his comuppance over another like-item...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I had a high school Government class teacher who came right out and endorsed Marxism and Communism in the classroom on frequesnt occasions.

So did I, back in the early-to-mid 1980s, during the height of the Cold War. This very same teacher also taught that the American Revolution was simply a fight between rich white men over who would control the profits of an entire continent.

We called him Ol' Nellie, and for a hippie whose best years had passed him by, he was pretty smart. He challenged us to think for ourselves; unfortunately, when we did, most of us figured out that everything he preached was utter bravo sierra. But in my opinion, he did us a great service by teaching us that everything taught to you in school is not necessarily the gospel truth.

[subterfuge]

I had good parents who taught me common sense from an early age and saw his comments as BS even when I had a young skull full of mush.

I hope you know how blessed you are. It took me 40 friggin' years to get away from the liberal ideology that I got from my parents. The good news is that after becoming a FReeper, I was able to turn my mother around. Dad died though and it wasn't until later that I realized he was a fiscal conservative and somewhat socialist, even though he was a registered Republican. He used to say stuff like, he was "a good citizen". STill can't quite figure that out, completely.

[absolootezer0]

I had a high school Government class teacher who came right out and endorsed Marxism and Communism in the classroom on frequesnt occasions.

my governmnet teacher wasn't any fun. he had this odd opinion that reagan was a bit too conservative for his liking. on the plus side, we got to listen to rush in class, and also bash clinton :)

[Thinkin' Gal]

I had a political science teacher who was the prototype of the modern-day moonbat. The students in the class were mostly from solid conservative families. She was so loopy that even the kids who were normally quiet, would chime in to put the hippie moonbat on the defensive. Nobody could stand her ignorant, condescending preaching. Because it was so easy to get her emotionally worked up, the class wound her up on a regular basis.

It never occurred to her to get a clue and/or knock it off, so we had to make do with bringing her to tears.