Showing posts with label bad teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad teachers. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Teachers of What?
I have been doing some teaching lately at the high school where I coach, and I find it interesting that even in the most conservative state in the U.S. many of the teachers are quite liberal. I know of one lady that is showing a movie that is calling Barney Frank the 'smartest man in the Senate' and the talk show 'Oprah' to her students as a method of teaching financial literacy. I take great exception to both of those characters being introduced to my offspring as prime examples of competent financial gurus. Barney Frank is one of the primary reasons the US is in the mess it is currently experiencing, and Oprah as a financial wizard? Come on, she might be a good talk show host who makes millions of dollars, but to have her explain what the common man can do in ordinary financial circumstances? That is a little far-fetched. It is not just the teachers that are bent to the left, the textbooks are as well. I was reading to the class out of a history book today and had to stop and explain to them that every written word has a bias to it, and that we had to think about where the author is coming from in order to ascertain whether information is biased in any manner. I am sure happy that I have actually taught my sons to think for themselves, and that I allow them the freedom to argue politics, religion, conservative vs liberal and any other thing they wish to argue. With liberal teachers cramming crap down their throats they will have to learn to stand against such dissemination. Hopefully, they will be up to the task.
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