Yes, unfortunately that is true. But what worries me is that we have rules to stop the bad teachers, they wind up stopping the good teachers too.
I’d rather have rules that say we can be open about our politics, because the bad ones are going to do it anyway.
I’d be all for that, outside the classroom. Inside it, I think teachers who keep expressing their views instead of teaching are being coercive. They’re saying, disagree with me, and instead of a c- you’ll get a d, or if you need extra time to turn in a paper, I’ll give you five minutes and then fail you. It becomes worth the student’s while to nod his head and agree, which then turns into Pavlovian training.