September 22, 2006
HS Govt Class: Supreme Court Elected Bush
(NE Ohio) On Tuesday, the teacher in my son's 12th-grade American Government class complained that Al Gore actually won the 2000 presidential election and George Bush was named President because of his buddies. Specifically, the teacher said it was relationships with brother Jeb Bush and Florida SecState Katherine Harris coupled with a majority conservative Supreme Court that made George Bush President of the U.S.
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I sense an underlying distaste for the American form of representative democracy on the part of this teacher. Possibly, she's not the best match for teaching American Government.
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Sounds like another ringing endorsement for home schooling!
Posted by: Subvet at September 22, 2006 05:03 AM (DNVxw)
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This goes right along with the type of government teachers that I remember from school.
Posted by: LC S at September 22, 2006 06:08 AM (k29k6)
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I've been preaching against these academic meatheads for years. Teachers should shut up, leave their personal opinions at home and teach.
Posted by: greyrooster at September 22, 2006 06:23 AM (m9HAJ)
Posted by: Oyster at September 22, 2006 06:40 AM (YudAC)
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I have a simple recipe for fixing our country. You will need:
A few million lefturds.
A few hundred acres of otherwise useless land.
A few hundred bulldozers.
Lots of guns and ammo, and Patriots to use them.
Take the bulldozers and dig trenches, then line up the lefturds and give each one a shot to the back of the head and pitch them off into the trench. Cover with dirt and voila!, liberty and common sense restored.
A few million lefturds.
A few hundred acres of otherwise useless land.
A few hundred bulldozers.
Lots of guns and ammo, and Patriots to use them.
Take the bulldozers and dig trenches, then line up the lefturds and give each one a shot to the back of the head and pitch them off into the trench. Cover with dirt and voila!, liberty and common sense restored.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 22, 2006 07:22 AM (v3I+x)
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I hope you have contacted the school board. That is a serious violation of policy. What she has done is lie to the students and misled them on the process of how our constitution dictates the electorial process. she should be repremanded and have an entry put in her file. And then she should be bitch slapped for being such an idiot.
Posted by: SeeMonk at September 22, 2006 07:36 AM (7teJ9)
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As what she said is demonstrably false, I'd suggest to the principle and school board that she is lying to the students, back it up with data, and ask that she be dismissed. As Senator Howard Metzenbaum (and many others) said, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts."
Posted by: baboy at September 22, 2006 08:05 AM (skBQT)
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Because a teacher lives in an alternate reality does not mean they can teach alternate history. But they will continue to do so as long as no parent calls them on it. Contact the school board and find out how to issue a formal complaint against the teacher. Most school boards have formal methods for such complaints. Then do it. You can even ask you child what other kids are in that class and contact the parents. It should not matter their political leanings, they should want history taught, not history taught on the opinion of the teacher.
We sent our children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated.
We sent our children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated.
Posted by: retire05 at September 22, 2006 08:44 AM (hq0B1)
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Could be a good thing. At that age I took care to make sure I totally disagreed with everyone in authority. I had a liberal english teacher (no my english is bad because it's my worst subject) and a liberal social studies teacher. I made sure to give them conservative hell every day. rebellion can be good.
Posted by: Howie at September 22, 2006 08:49 AM (D3+20)
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Name her and the school and the district will suddenly get thousands of letters asking to have her fired.
Posted by: The Curmudgeon at September 22, 2006 12:35 PM (jeBXX)
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Considering the level of skill my teachers displayed, perhaps we should just have one man video tape lectures, make up a complete FAQ for the course, and let the kids watch a video teacher.
Saves money, stops creeps like this, and really if we had like guidance counselors to make up for some of the teachers, the kids would get a better education. I remember one teacher Miss Sendry, she used babble all class wrong, no one could understand her, her writing was horrific, we couldn't read the equations, and we all ended up teaching ourselves out of the textbook. Ever since then, I have wondered, why the hell is there a teacher up there, might as well make it a well made video that I can understand. Most of my college teachers would spend half their time on unrelated topics, and we would end up simply reading the book. In fact, I bet more than half the classes I took since 6th Grade I had learn myself from the book because the teachers just plain sucked, AND HAD TENURE.
Saves money, stops creeps like this, and really if we had like guidance counselors to make up for some of the teachers, the kids would get a better education. I remember one teacher Miss Sendry, she used babble all class wrong, no one could understand her, her writing was horrific, we couldn't read the equations, and we all ended up teaching ourselves out of the textbook. Ever since then, I have wondered, why the hell is there a teacher up there, might as well make it a well made video that I can understand. Most of my college teachers would spend half their time on unrelated topics, and we would end up simply reading the book. In fact, I bet more than half the classes I took since 6th Grade I had learn myself from the book because the teachers just plain sucked, AND HAD TENURE.
Posted by: Naieve at September 22, 2006 01:42 PM (+PWjE)
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Seriously, anything that is done now about this "teacher" is reactive. How do we as parents nip this crappola in the bud before it hits the ears of our kids? Does anyone know what we can do to get more involved in what our children are being taught? Having to counter the garbage that is poured into their heads isn't good enough. We need to insure that garbage never hits the classroom. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Subvet at September 22, 2006 11:14 PM (DNVxw)
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Yes home schooling and get them away from these rotten teachers and leftists NEA time to shut down the dept of education and end computiary schooling and shut down their prisons
Posted by: sandpiper at September 22, 2006 11:15 PM (YIXxO)
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Sandpiper, I hear ya. But home schooling isn't feasible for all of us and though my kids will be in private schools in a few years it really irks me to think it's necessary. I'll wind up paying for their schooling twice, once for tuition for the specific schools and again via my taxes for the kids in public schools. Damn it, we and our kids deserve better than to be driven out of the schools we pay for. I've a feeling I'm not alone in my frustration, when and how do we the people take back these public institutions?
Posted by: Subvet at September 22, 2006 11:21 PM (DNVxw)
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I find it fascinating that they continue to perpetrate this lie. If you haven't noticed, the left and the media have never acknowledged that he is actually president, now we see why the teachers associations across the united states need to be changed. This particular teacher, apparently, failed to keep herself objective and, rather than that, imposed her own personal opinion on a high school student. Isn't it curious why the teachers associations, across the United States, seem to need union assistance, even though they all have agreements with their employer that are separate from their union membership
Posted by: Christopher Perruzzi at September 23, 2006 06:15 AM (B+dFZ)
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Tenure is worse than Islam.
Posted by: greyrooster at September 23, 2006 07:48 AM (dRys2)
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Gimme the school system, I want the name of the teacher, the name of the school, city, state, principal... I want it all. I have access to one of the greatest young right wing attorneys in the history of man kind. Gimme the info.
Posted by: bigdaddy at September 25, 2006 02:18 PM (MzEXW)
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