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I’m sure that somewhere there are teachers who do a really top-notch job, leave their politics at home and produce excellent results. All we ever hear about though, are the fools, the self-appointed political officers and the automatons with no judgment, common sense or sense of proportion.

Unreal.

I’m sure that somewhere there are teachers who do a really top-notch job, leave their politics at home and produce excellent results

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There are only 2 kinds of government teachers:

1) Bad Teachers
2) Enablers

If you’re part of the government school system ( in any way) you are part of the problem.

There is only one solution:

CLOSE down government schools!
Remove your own child.
Organize with others to form church schools.
Organize with others to elect representatives who will padlock government schools.

I've been a teacher almost 18 years and for the last twelve I've taught in an inner city high school. Most of my fellow teachers are exactly the nightmare most freepers dread, but I work with some dang fine, Christian conservative folks, too.

I have several friends who're retired military who have decided to move into the classroom to counter the liberal slop fed our kids. Mostly to counter the liberal doctrine of deliberately teaching kids WHAT to think, rather than HOW to think. For example, after Colombine, the school where I was working at that point had six ex-military. Four were combat arms branched and three of those were Special Forces with all of them having seen extensive combat operations. We agreed that there would be NO Colombines at that school. If we got word there was a "shooter" on campus, we had a rally point at which to meet, form up and find the punks and take them out.

This was a really old school with tons of tight blind corners, nearly impossible to negotiate safely, especially for folks untrained in that art. We reconned the whole school. Knew the choke points, blind spots and hard cover. I never felt the need to keep a firearm in my car, but I knew some of those other guys, did. Had one of them been a chaperon on this field trip, there'd have been one dead "bad guy" on site and he would have fully deserved his fate. I wouldn't have lost a wink of sleep over that.

I went through the public school system in the 60's and 70's. Being poor, we moved a lot. From grades 1-12, I went through 9 different schools. I can only remember a handful of teachers. Mrs. Freeze, my first grade teacher. Mrs. Layman, 9th grade history. Why do I remember her? Early in the year, a girl challenged her authority and commented her class was just like communism. Mrs. Layman went off on this girl for a good 15 minutes, breaking down the differences between communism and a constitutional republic. It made quite an impression on me. Mr. Talbot, my gym coach in grades 7-9. Had an excellent rapport with the students - black and white. Ex-Air Force and ran his gym class along military lines. Mrs. East, my senior year English teacher. And then there was Mr. Bane. Why do I remember him? Because he slapped a girl in class and was never suspended for it.

So yeah, there are some good teachers out there. But for the most part, they are the "fools, the self-appointed political officers and the automatons with no judgment, common sense or sense of proportion" as you so aptly stated. All this was before the Department of Education was created under Jimmy Carter. I am sure school is worse today. I thank God I never had children and had to go through this crap. I would probably end up being one of those parents you read about who winds up getting arrested.

“I’m sure that somewhere there are teachers who do a really top-notch job, leave their politics at home and produce excellent results. All we ever hear about though, are the fools, the self-appointed political officers and the automatons with no judgment, common sense or sense of proportion.”

I’d go so far as to say most i’ve come across do a good job and care about what they do. As you say the only ones we hear about are the bad ones. A similar situation is the highways. We don’t hear about the millions of cars that take I-40 from Wilmington to Raleigh a year safely, we hear about the one or two who die.