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People might get fined for swearing occasionally here, but...
As a contrast, my politics teacher harps on about how evil Tony Blair is and how great Oliver Cromwell was for making Britain a republic.
qckbeam said:This stuff drives me nuts. I first caught wind of it driving home and listening to good ol' Rush (I just love having something to fume about when I'm driving). He was going on and on about a maggot infested teacher from Colorado or something. I'm not sure what he meant by that. It doesn't make much sense; perhaps it was the drugs talking. I get home, do some stuff, and stumble across the story (link: http://brandonh.newsvine.com/_news/...uspended-after-comparing-bush-to-hitler?pp=1). Now, the teacher says to the class that it's crazy to compare Bush to Hitler, but that the two use similar tones when they speak from time to time. He also claims that the US is the single most violent nation on the earth. He then goes on to say:
"I'm not in anyway implying that you should agree with me, I don't even know if I'm necessarily taking a position. But what I'm trying to get you to do is to think about these issues more in depth and not to just take things from the surface."
The entire conversation was recorded by one of the students. It's not as if the teacher is yelling and screaming about Nazis, he's just having a chat with his class. So one of the kids takes the tape to the school-board, complains about rabid left-wing rhetoric, and gets the teacher suspended. How can someone be suspended for this? How can this cause a stink? HOW? How can the school board claim that his actions were inappropriate? There isn't even anything factually incorrect in what he said. I had a teacher who basically performed fellatio on all right-wingers in every class, and as much as I disagreed with him, I didn't want him to stop with the “rabid, right-wing rhetoric”. It's helpful to learn about bias and bullshit at an early age, and it's healthy to have your viewpoint challenged. Arrrg, this stuff just drives me crazy.
As a contrast, my politics teacher harps on about how evil Tony Blair is and how great Oliver Cromwell was for making Britain a republic.