No Danny, you're assuming the worst traits of a extremist teacher.
Teachers are supposed to teach math, grammar, history, etc.
You want to be an activist in a second grade classroom, I don't want anyone's activism in classrooms.
Not even yours.
Teaching kids moral values is a parent's job, not some teacher's.
You want to judge other people's ability to teach children based on their activities outside the classroom, but your activities inside the classroom (at least what you've shown here) are more reprehensible than theirs.
While this is a true statement, there is more to our culture than that.
It's the parents' job to be the primary & intentional educator of their children's moral values. But that does not mean that influential adults are not teaching moral values to kids all around them all the time.
Values are caught more than they are taught. They are absorbed life-on-life, not just via lectures from classroom pulpits.
We all are in a position to discern integrity on a daily basis of those around us.
It is both. The primary job falls to the parent. But it's the parent's job to ensure that the public school teacher who is entrusted with the kid 5 days a week demonstrates good morals.
If the parent fails to do this, they are failing to ensure that the kid is taught appropriately. That is too much time away from the parent not to ensure that they have good role models during that time.
"but your activities inside the classroom (at least what you've shown here) are more reprehensible than theirs. "
Oh yes, studying the Declaration of Independence is reprehensible. Giving them all the facts and teaching them to think critically about evolution is reprehensible. I'm soooooooooo dangerous!!!!