[Aussie Dasher]

I wouldn't allow this joker to teach a Kennedy how to drink!

[sageb1]

How about if the students discuss the actions of Benedict Arnold and decide who in America is guilty of treason.

[xcamel]

[MplsSteve]

Mr. Bennish, your job is to teach Geography.

Contrasting Bush and Hitler IS NOT geography.

If you want to poursue this angle, see to it that you are transferred so you can teach a Current Events class.

[fizziwig]

The little boy teacher needs to be spanked, fired, and sent back to first grade to learn how to live with civilized people.

[mware]

I see so after that 20 minute diatribe the remaining 30 minutes were in defense of the administration.

[Jeremiah2911]

Perhaps he can teach how the fallacy of the Holocaust in Austria. /sarc

[zencat]

It's amazing how in no way President Bush is like Adolf Hitler. And yet the comparison is called things like "critical thinking" or "comparative analysis".

[robertpaulsen]

"My job as a social studies teacher is to argue alternative perspectives ..."

You may be a social studies teacher, but this was a high school World Geography class.

[digger48]

He and his lawyer have claimed it's what you DON'T hear of the class that exonerates him, but they've yet to tell us exactly what he said in that time that WOULD provide balance. Anyone with a brain can listen to that tape and hear the maniacal rantings of an avowed Leftist.

[American Quilter]

This far-left-wing loony was supposed to be teaching a 10th-grade geography class. As Denver radio talk-show host Mike Rosen commented today, Bennish apparently feels safe demogoguing young, uninformed teenagers who can't rebut his rants.

Sean Allen's father was on Rosen's show, and said a number of older students who took Bennish's class in the past, are coming forward and volunteering to testify that Bennish did the same thing in their classes.

[RushLake]

The thought occurs to me each time I hear this pathetic little creep discussed is that he is getting way more than his 15 minutes of fame. Until we get away from the idea that public schools are a good substitute for our parenting responsibilities, or get away entirely from the concept of the public school as a necessary part of our society, we're going to continue to encounter bottom feeders like this loser.

Anyone who wants to witness Marxism in action should look closely at the federally funded "Close Up" program which is a substitute for civics, history, and social studies, in some public schools.

[Sgt_Schultze]

On the recording, Bennish told the students that some of Bush's speech "sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say. We're the only ones who are right, everyone else is backwards and our job is to conquer the world and make sure that they all live just like we want them to."

This is an odd reading of the SOTU. I do not recall W speaking even those concepts let alone using those words. Apparently Bennish is lacking in the ability to comprehend the meaning of the spoken word. Perhaps he should stop teaching critical thinking until he has mastered the behavior of understanding English.

[Wasanother]

The second there is a comparison to Hitler the balance can no longer exist the same way if he had compared Bush to Jesus. There are points of "balance" to where there is no counterbalance before it tumbles.

[jazusamo]

Surprise! Surprise! He defended his actions. I would love to see him when he tries to defend it to the School Board, he broke the District's policy.

[HarleyLady27]

This is the new teacher product of the liberal organization. This is what our children are being taught all over the country. This is what the Libs want our students to believe....hate our Country, hate our Government, be friends with terrorists, and live in freedom by voting to let our Military fight in wars to give them the freedom of 'having their cake and eating to' and as long as we let them do this, then it will go on..

What we need to do, is take back our schools, take back our Government and take back our Country and support our Military by NOT voting in any Liberals (dems); and taking people like crazy cindy, algore, jimmy carter, bill clinton, hilliary clinton, polski, reid, kennedy, kerry and the like and put them up for treason AFTER we have gotten them OUT OF OFFICE...

[wizardoz]

They do not necessarily reflect my own views.

Sure they do. The coward just won't admit it. He'll say that stuff in front of a bunch of sixteen year olds, though.

[mlc9852]

"They do not necessarily reflect my own views. They are simply thrown out there to encourage critical thought," he told "Today.""

All those who believe this raise your hands. LOL I didn't think so.

[taillightchaser]

I understand the dirtbag got his hippie hair cut off. No doubt for all his media visits.
I guess he's going to play the hilldabeast card and become the victim in all this.
What a puke!!!

[Always Learning]

I agree with Mr. Bennish. Children should be exposed to "alternative perspectives and viewpoints so that students are aware of those point of views"

[Rick_Michael]

Lesson is:

All kids should bring recorders to school, and expose bad teachers.