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My problem with this...
I've noticed a disturbing trend in America as of the last 10 years, public schools are becoming education centers for liberal dogma. Not to say that liberal dogma is a bad thing, but I thought schools were supposed to be a place of learning scientific facts - not propeganda. I personally had many classroom sessions in 6th through 12th grade turned into hour long bitch-fests at the conservative side of the government. Not the most productive use of French or Civics Class. (Ironically, Civics is supposed to teach how the government is run, not one's opinions on the government...) This is a big problem as the children being fed the propeganda are, in fact, children! They haven't developed their own opinions or their own logic yet - they just walk along blindly following what their instructors feed them. (This is actually happening in my nephews class... he's 8) And if someone does speak out about this method of indoctrinating students - for example, my complaint to the school administration about my french class being used as an outlet for opinions on American politics, the student in question is treated as if he or she is openly rebelling against the system. Sending my High School transcripts, for example, took four tries - and cost me a shot at going to West Point... (They 'accidentally' filed the transcripts to be picked up by me, despite having marked on two seperate requests to be sent directly - as I was instructed by the admissions edpartment, to send them out.)
Of course, this indoctrination is justified because the teachers have their 'free speech' and should be allowed to do it. (This is occuring in New York as I write this) The only problem is that this free speach is infringing on the children and brainwashing them, not allowing them to form their own opinions. The only reason that I strictly blame the liberals in the national school system is that, from my viewpoint, I haven't seen any conservatives in a teaching atmosphere. Even if there were - the liberal presence is much stronger and controls not only the teacher's union, but the school administration and the rest of anything I've left out - which means that anyone who goes against this norm is overshadowed and lost in the deafening propeganda being spewed forth.
I'm reminded of the time directly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks when we were directed to write a report, for English class, on how America caused these strikes on our soil. I spoke out and asked what we were supposed to do if we 'didn't want to blindly follow liberal propeganda and didn't beleive we had done anything to justify the callous muder of a few thousand innocent lives' (Not my specific words or the best way to handle it, but I was tired of this kind of activity occfuring in schools) I was instructed that if I wanted to act this way I should leave the classroom and go to the office - so I shut up. To this day I wish I had sat there and rebuked her. I ended up not writing the paper, then noticed at the end of the year that the paper had been weighted more than twice as much as the other assignments of equal length - which caused my to fail the class by aaround 2%.
So yes, I'm against force feeding children political viewpoints of any kind in schools. I'm against this because of the brainwashing aspect, because of the abuse of power that will NECESSARILY come with it. (As in 'What the hell does this kid know, they're only 13 - what a cheeky prick, I'll fail them because they don't follow what I say - It may not be as blatant or as concious as this, but it will be present) and because of the one sidedness of it, not to mention any other bad thing that will come from it. This is a simple plan to promote a political stance by brainwashing some kids, nothing more - and it sickens me.
Welcome to the corrupt mess of vile putrescance that is our nations school system... available wherever a future voter may be.
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