I am open and up-front with the kids . . . more so since Tuesday. We have an extreme socialist on the faculty, a history teacher, in the next building over. I tell the kids that his classroom is the left wing of the campus, and from now on they can consider my classroom to be the right wing.
I’d put a picture of Obama between the Ayers flag-stomping photo and the commie flag wavers, with his “spread the wealth around” quote underneath.
>>> ...and from now on they can consider my classroom to be the right wing. <<<
Good! It is time for children to learn that more than one opinion is available. Conservative teachers have to recognize that people who hold left-wing ideology in their hearts have been vocal in the classroom for the past 40 years, while conservatives have followed the “rule” of respecting the classroom as being “non-political.”
The reconversion of our nation, if possible, will have to start with today’s students, just as the movement which allowed a majority of American voters to think that Obama is an acceptable choice for the most powerful position in the world, started in the 1960s.