Is it alright for teachers to be politically biased?

[betenoir]

*Originally posted by Guinastasia *
**WAs that the WAVE?
**

Nope. This really happened. In 1973. You can hear it at

http://www.thislife.org It’s "Mob Mentality- May 5th, 2000 in the archives.

I dunno. Maybe it was the inspiration for The Wave.

[Guinastasia]

As did the WAVE.
Here:
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/3145/wave.html

[Grither]

*Originally posted by Jester *
**My US History teacher is a very left wing democrat, and makes no secret about it…Before the first Presidential Debates, he wrote up a sheet of differences in Democrat and Republican stances…Some excerpts from the “Republican” half of the sheet were as follows:

-Anti-Government; unless government can help the wealthy.

-Against taxes but mainly against taxes for the rich.

-Anti civil-rights for minorities, blacks, women, homosexuals.

-Agains affirmative action; tend to believe everything is fine.

-Christian Coalition wants to control gov’t to enforce their ideas and beliefs.

-Pro big business laissez-faire, unless gov’t helps big buisness against regulation.

-Against min. wage.
**

I think it’d be instructive to see some selections from the “Democrat” half of the list, as well. Were they generally pro-Democrat, or from an exaggerated stance like the ones above?

The reason I ask is because I’ve seen e-mail lists similar to that one (and I think gotten one like that in a soc class I was in) that had two VERY biased lists of what people of each party were like. The point being, I suppose, that you can demonize ANYONE on the basis of his or her beliefs.

mm

[Jester]

*Originally posted by Grither *
**
I think it’d be instructive to see some selections from the “Democrat” half of the list, as well. Were they generally pro-Democrat, or from an exaggerated stance like the ones above?

The reason I ask is because I’ve seen e-mail lists similar to that one (and I think gotten one like that in a soc class I was in) that had two VERY biased lists of what people of each party were like. The point being, I suppose, that you can demonize ANYONE on the basis of his or her beliefs.
**

Sure thing. Here are some selections from the “Democrat” column:

-Believe in creating equality, seek ways to help people.

-pro-government; it can be used to help ordinary people with any problems that arise, for power of the federal gov’t.

-for woman’s right to choose, believe that abortions should be legal.

-pro-gov’t place in education, pro public schools and equal education for all, for affirmative action.

-for seperation of church and state, respects and tolerates all belief systems, should not be taught in schools.

That’s a few, there are more, if you want them. But, as I think is pretty clear, he made no attempt to “demonize” the Democrats. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Well, of course, Republicans do eat babies and burn down orphanages.