March 02, 2006
Beginning of the End
"An Overland High School teacher who criticized President Bush, capitalism and U.S. foreign policy during his geography class was placed on administrative leave Wednesday afternoon after a student who recorded the session went public with the tape."
I believe that this is the beginning of the end of the ultra-hippy cultural relativism dominance in our educational system and I couldn't be happier. Granted, this will not end it right away, but this accountability for political preaching disguised as teaching will likely spread and this will be seen as the event that started it. Parents will now be more aware of teachers doing this sort of thing and teachers will become a little warier about preaching politics in their classroom for fear that they could get suspended or even fired.
Here's a link to a site that has the whole recording.
Michelle Malkin has transcribed the whole thing for you if you prefer to read it.
In the post-Vietnam era, our educational system has been marked by an overwhelming dominance of a culturally relativistic mindset like this that says that the United States is always wrong and is the cause of everything bad that happens in the world. This mindset points out our flaws and always says "Who are we to judge?" Because people of this mindset think that the U.S. is so bad and so flawed, it follows that they think that any time we disagree with someone or use foreign aid to influence other countries' policies or go to war with another country, that's wrong because "Who are we to judge?" "How can we try to change another country when we've done so and so bad thing in the past? Who are we to judge?" they ask. This mindset has so totally taken over our educational system and the culture of people who were born since Vietnam that it kind of scares me. Judging by my parents' reactions when I tell them this, they don't realize the extent to which this mindset has permeated our society among younger people. Luckily, now there seems to be a backlash developing against this mindset, or at least the dominance of this mindset, and Sean Allen has fired a shot against it because teachers everywhere will be a little more careful about saying their whacko political viewpoints--whether conservative or liberal--in a public school setting to children.
Let me make it clear that I don't have any problem with an individual having these particular crazy opinions besides just thinking they're crazy. I'd be glad to let this guy speak publicly and have his opinions shot down in the court of public opinion. What bothers me is that he's pushing it down impressionable kids' throats, thus trying to create a whole new generation of whackos like him. I don't want Ann Coulter teaching classes and telling kids that all Democrats are treasonous any more than I want this loon saying the nonsense that he does in his classroom.
Check out Slapstick Politics for more.
I believe that this is the beginning of the end of the ultra-hippy cultural relativism dominance in our educational system and I couldn't be happier. Granted, this will not end it right away, but this accountability for political preaching disguised as teaching will likely spread and this will be seen as the event that started it. Parents will now be more aware of teachers doing this sort of thing and teachers will become a little warier about preaching politics in their classroom for fear that they could get suspended or even fired.
Here's a link to a site that has the whole recording.
Michelle Malkin has transcribed the whole thing for you if you prefer to read it.
In the post-Vietnam era, our educational system has been marked by an overwhelming dominance of a culturally relativistic mindset like this that says that the United States is always wrong and is the cause of everything bad that happens in the world. This mindset points out our flaws and always says "Who are we to judge?" Because people of this mindset think that the U.S. is so bad and so flawed, it follows that they think that any time we disagree with someone or use foreign aid to influence other countries' policies or go to war with another country, that's wrong because "Who are we to judge?" "How can we try to change another country when we've done so and so bad thing in the past? Who are we to judge?" they ask. This mindset has so totally taken over our educational system and the culture of people who were born since Vietnam that it kind of scares me. Judging by my parents' reactions when I tell them this, they don't realize the extent to which this mindset has permeated our society among younger people. Luckily, now there seems to be a backlash developing against this mindset, or at least the dominance of this mindset, and Sean Allen has fired a shot against it because teachers everywhere will be a little more careful about saying their whacko political viewpoints--whether conservative or liberal--in a public school setting to children.
Let me make it clear that I don't have any problem with an individual having these particular crazy opinions besides just thinking they're crazy. I'd be glad to let this guy speak publicly and have his opinions shot down in the court of public opinion. What bothers me is that he's pushing it down impressionable kids' throats, thus trying to create a whole new generation of whackos like him. I don't want Ann Coulter teaching classes and telling kids that all Democrats are treasonous any more than I want this loon saying the nonsense that he does in his classroom.
Check out Slapstick Politics for more.
