I know that many of you will not see the harm in this because science teacher Steve White was just preaching the holy word.
However…
Is White so concerned about the continuation of his ideology that he must go off topic in a science class to show 13 year olds a purile political film? And as you can see by the link, he’s not being fired or even suspended for his indoctrination-fest.
I can’t wait to watch the intellectual gymnastics as some of the usual suspects here defend this guy and his actions. Or maybe I’m setting my sights too high. Perhaps the crickets will entertain me instead.
Boo hoo. The poor widdle students were exposed to the same naughty, naughty words they all use 5,596,848 times a day anyway. And they got to see someone poking fun at GWB. Big whoop.
I agree, he was out of line. The issue was handled at the school level, and I venture to say that the principal is certain the teacher will not do that again.
I agree he was way out of line also. But the religious right, and, apparently conservatives, attempt to maintain the martyred syndrome of their constituency. Whether it be a War on Easter, or an idiot teacher showing an anti-Bush video, if there is a minor problem that can be blown out of proportion and put into the media, it’ll be there.
I don’t see this as so minor a problem. While I am no fan of Bush, showing a film like this, regardlerss of the direction it is slanted, is completely out of bounds. The classroom is not the place for him to further his political agenda. He needs more than a talklng to here IMO. Some kind of letter of reprimand (which might have been given) or a couple week suspension without pay. I’d vote for the latter, which the union will cry about, and then, onward.
Despite his politics, the teacher sounds like a creep. Such a move will hurt his chances, not help. What’s worse, what he did was totally professionally unethical and inappropriate.
Even the background music was unfit for the classroom: The use of “their behind” and “their mind” makes me wince.
Hmm. You might have gotten some enthusiastic participants in a fair pitting if the purpose wasn’t transparently to bait people with preemptive insults that have nothing to do with the offending teacher.
Anyway, I also find this teacher’s execrable behavior deeply troubling, and think some sort of repamand would have been entirely appropriate.
An asinine move by what sounds like a loose-cannon pinhead. Is that enough of a disavowal from yet another of the “usual suspects”, Evil One? Will we see a retraction of your pre-emptive contumely?
I do wonder just what motivated one local Republican poobah to make this statement:
The following is a sincere remark completely free of sarcasm.
You know…you guys are right. I have allowed a handful of posters with whom I am idealogically opposed to bait me into tarring everyone with the same brush.
If their behavior irritates me, the last thing I should do is emulate it. Please accept my apology.
That said…the teacher is a fuckwad.
I see nothing to defend in this instance and I definitely hope that the private personnel issue included disciplinary action. Unlike the the similar sounding case from the State of the Union, this was not a teacher in a Social Studies-related course asking provocative (a.k.a., leading) questions, but a science teacher playing a propaganda piece.
Yeh, sucks, doesn’t it? I suppose you could always redirect your thwarted aggression to that dimwit I quoted from the article who appeared to be confusing alchemy with Science[sup]TM[/sup].
Emphasis added. Well, the OP did get it right for the 4th person to post in this thread, no?
I’m not a big fan of those kind of predictive OPs, but I have to wonder why everyone is so quick to criticize him, but not one poster has commented on the above.
It’s hard to type up a post when you’re rolling your eyes so far that you’re reading your innermost thoughts and can’t see the keyboard. Especially if you’re not a touch typist.
