The lying lies a liberal teacher tells

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, March 03, 2006 | Kevin McCullough

[Lurker]

Death to public schools.

L

[Loud Mime]

Public Schools and Public Radio are failures supported by tax dollars and ruthless management policies: You will be liberal or you will die.

It's time to change both of them. Welcome to private enterprise!

[ThreePuttinDude]

bttt

[Nathan Zachary]

Knowing kids, this may become a trendy thing! Catch the teacher preaching his marxism, get him kicked out of school for a change! Plus, get a free period to goof around.

[Echo Talon]

If this guy isn't fired, he must me monitored by someone at all times. I think Allen's parents should try and sue the school for child abuse or something, hit these schools in the wallet and things will change.

[highlander_UW]

And we're writing a new chapter in the story of self-government – with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan, and millions of Iraqis marking their liberty with purple ink, and men and women from Lebanon to Egypt debating the rights of individuals and the necessity of freedom.

Ah...well, now I understand what got Bennish all upset...these are the evil results of US influence in the world...and for the Left, these are unacceptable results.

[LeoWindhorse]

I say an I-Pod for every student

[pepsionice]

I-Pods are going to put teachers into an uneasy situation. Almost anything you say...might come back to be public knowledge. Back in 1970s when I went to school...you simply had a dull boring teacher and thats all you really could complain about. Today....teachers like this dimwit...are open targets. I think they will start to think a little...but they aren't bright enough to just stop.

[StACase]

At a function here locally, a public school history teacher I know of wrote this on a profile sheet:

Hobbies: Expressing anger towards President Bush
Plans next ten years: teaching students about the other wars we'll be fighting in ten years.

So I sent him an E-Mail:

I was shown your comments on the Profile sheet....

History Teacher at . . . High School
Hobbies: Expressing anger towards President Bush
Plans next ten years: teaching students about the other wars we'll be fighting in ten years.

I wish you success in maintaining your objectivity in the classroom.

Here's his answer:

...let me assure you that I do, indeed, consider myself a success in maintaining my objectivity in teaching. Certainly I would be a poor teacher if I simply bashed our president day in and day out in the classroom -- it would end up being a bit of a bore, too... Not to mention unprofessional. It would eventually get me in hot water.

Perhaps I was under the assumption that a ... "profile" -- a bit of fluff, really -- was certainly outside the realm of my official statements or duties as a teacher. Now, I know whatever celebrities do in their spare time is VERY serious business, but teachers???

In fact, my responses on the "profile" were not entirely serious, as you might have imagined. Regardless, I would hope that even teachers would be allowed to have their own hobbies! Would you worry about someone who hunted as a hobby maintaining their objectivity in teaching?

Part of my job as a teacher is to help students develop critical thinking skills. I sometimes take positions in the classroom that could be described as conservative AND liberal. The main thing the students can expect from me is for me to question their ideas and prompt them to think!

Anyway, as you may see, I think quite a bit about the way I handle political issues in the classroom. I would hope that this would portray my professionalism more than a ..."profile".

I hope this has cleared up any misunderstanding.

We'll just have to see about those other wars in ten years! I'd like to be proven wrong!

And finally, as I prefer to take personal emails in my personal email account -- please email . . . if you have any further questions or concerns. It was on the "profile" sheet.

Sincerely,

I doubt that he's objective considering his "Plans"

[manwiththehands]

I wonder how much of the "No Child Left Behind" money this school receives.

[RoadTest]

No matter what you say, morons will get it wrong.

[sportutegrl]

I just wish some reporter would do his job and ask these students some basic geography questions that high school students should know. I want to know if he has managed to teach any geography, or as I suspect, his off topic rants are taking away from teaching.

[sirchtruth]

The problem as I see it is not with what the teacher said, the problem is he was kicked out for saying it, and no one was allowed to counter or present an opposing view to his idiotic rant.

Not allowing Free Speech is the problem, not the mindless babble this prick rambled. If everything was allowed to be expressed people like this pompass ass would be basically SHUNNED and ignored by society and I beleive that's the way the forefathers invisioned free speech. Your allowed to speak your mind no matter how idiotic and stupid you sound, but you must realize there is a responsibility to what you utter and there will be consequences. Especially when you try to deceive and lie about events!

[eeriegeno]

Knowing kids, this may become a trendy thing! Catch the teacher preaching his marxism, get him kicked out of school for a change! Plus, get a free period to goof around.

If the kids were suspended, as they should have been, for being truant from class, maybe they would think twice about protesting??????

[Casekirchen]

"The problem as I see it is not with what the teacher said, the problem is he was kicked out for saying it, and no one was allowed to counter or present an opposing view to his idiotic rant."

--- Wrong point of view

The problem is that an Authority figure is politicing not teaching.

There is no one in the class room to "counter or present an opposing view".

Any student who tries to "counter or present an opposing view" will be punished either openly (held up for ridicule or treated as a "trouble maker") or in secret (grade lowered). That the student had to tape the class session is proof that he knew that he would be retaliated against without iron clad evidence.

Free speech implies a level playing field



Extending your arguement means that you have to support Dan Rather & Mary Mapes in Rathergate because Rather's forged documents was his speech and "the problem is he was kicked out for saying it"

[cb]

actually free speech implies that you don't have to listen if you don't want to. of course, these kids and all kids in classrooms are a captive audience. thus, teachers should not be allowed to deviate from the ciriculum.

In college, of course, you or your parents have paid for the instruction and to walk out would defeat the purpose in being there. But, if public schools allowed students to walk out when the teachers started these rants, they'd walk and then the school would have to enforce the ciriculum.

Imagine how careful these leftists would be if they knew half the class would be out on the lawn the moment they talked about anything but geography!

Before anybody starts, I know that you pay for the public school too but attendence is mandatory and you don't write checks to the school. Kids often don't see the connect.

[fanfan]

Knowing kids, this may become a trendy thing! Catch the teacher preaching his marxism, get him kicked out of school for a change!

Watch for the new rule....no Ipods or MP3 players allowed in class.

[mewzilla]

FR EXCLUSIVE: Class Syllabus of Bush-bashing Colorado Geography Teacher Jay Bennish

Any parent who'd bothered to read this would have been warned.

[Hardastarboard]

ignorant students walked out of Overland protesting the teacher's paid leave.

I agree with these ignorant students. The teacher should be put on unpaid leave.