And operant conditioning can be very uncomfortable at times. Very.
Posted on 05/02/2009 6:18:15 PM PDT by DrGop0821
More proof of the Liberal mentality in our schools. The student did nothing wrong, yet was yelled at for 10 minutes for watching the "wrong" news.
Teacher told student that Fox has "conservative views" they are trying to push on people.
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Is this the young man who called into the Rush Limbaugh radio show?
Nothing dumber than a teacher with a BA from a college of education. Well, not exactly. Dumber still are teachers with Masters degrees and Doctorates from a college of education.
This “teacher” should be fired immediately.
With no severance
Yep Phd. Piled Higher and Deeper
And operant conditioning can be very uncomfortable at times. Very.
Again, I tell this story...
I am once again reminded of one of my own teachers at school. 1970 - this man was the school’s Chaplain and he was an Anglican Minister, and he was also very active in the anti-Vietnam War protests in Australia. Everybody knew it, he didn’t hide it. And I was the son of a man killed in Vietnam and so my views were not the same as his views.
In my final year of school, I was seriously considering joining the military. And I went to my teachers who I trusted and asked their opinions. And I thought I should ask him as well, because I did respect him even though I disagreed with him.
To my surprise he told me the military was a good career and a noble vocation and he thought I’d do well in it, if it was what I wanted.
I was a bit surprised and I said so, and what he said to me next...
“Look - you know what I believe, and I’ll always tell students what I believe, and I hope that some of them will decide that what I say makes sense to them and will come to believe the same things I do. But only because it does make sense to them and because they decide that on their own. I would be an absolutely rotten teacher if I wanted all my students to come out of my classes thinking the same way I do. I want you to be people who can think for themselves, not just parrot what they’re told, and that means I have to accept that if I do my job properly, some of you are going to decide I’m wrong. I’d be a horrible teacher, the worst kind of teacher, if all my students wound up agreeing with me. The world goes forward when people disagree in honesty and good faith. It stagnates when all who should be thinking simply agree.”
Today I am a teacher - after over twenty years serving my country in uniform - and though that mans politics were completely different to mine, his idea of teaching is one I definitely have accepted as my own.
“This “teacher” should be fired immediately.
With no severance”
I absolutely agree. We have let the pendulum swing way too far away from the center, and the left has redefined the true center as extreme right. I’ve gotten to the point where I feel I don’t really have a country. I just live here.
IF this happened as the student says it did, then sure, this teacher should be fired immediately. But if there’s one thing I know about high school kids, it’s that pretty much anything they say (particularly when they’re dicussing interactions with ‘authority figures’) should be viewed with a healthy skepticism, at the very least.
Let’s not go around firing people (or calling for people to be fired, as the case may be) based solely on some high school student’s call to a radio show.
Paraphrasing what you wrote: But if there’s one thing I know about politicians and leftist ideologues, it’s that pretty much anything they say should be viewed with a healthy skepticism, at the very least.
IF this happened as the student says it did, then sure, this teacher should be fired immediately. But if there’s one thing I know about high school kids, it’s that pretty much anything they say (particularly when they’re dicussing interactions with ‘authority figures’) should be viewed with a healthy skepticism, at the very least.
Let’s not go around firing people (or calling for people to be fired, as the case may be) based solely on some high school student’s call to a radio show.
yes, same kid
Of course (though I’d go further and say that any statement made by a politician or leftist ideologue should be viewed with contempt and disgust, at the very least). But that has nothing to do with this situation - I’m just saying that it’s probably wise to avoid jumping to any conclusions in situations like this.
Hey, most teachers get used to hysterical calls to fire us because of something a kid says we did.
At least this time the kid is claiming a teacher did something they shouldn’t have, instead of those calls developing because a kid tells their parent a teacher dared to try and discipline the brat’s behaviour...
(Serious for a moment - it really has got that bad in many cases - I can understand parents getting angry if their kid tells them a teacher was out of line - but I’ve seen colleagues face complaints for doing things that they are absolutely supposed to do - like enforce school rules - and getting no support. A lot of people complain about schools and with good reason in many cases, but often have no understanding that teachers are often driven to act the way they do because of complaints that weren’t justified - how about if this kid had gone home and told ultra-liberal parents about what they’d read in the classroom - the teacher could then find their job being threatened for not censoring the kids reading. You’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t, sometimes.).
You’ve all got it wrong. That child needs to do service in the Obama youth corps and get re-educated.
Along with all the kids who were wrong in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwgerG34s0
It is being investigated.
I keep asking, "Why send your child where God is hated, American flags are hated, truth is hated, America is hated, abortion is loved, homosexuality is loved, sin is rewarded, and lies are indoctrinated into your child's mind?"
“You’ve all got it wrong. That child needs to do service in the Obama youth corps and get re-educated.”
When that is not enough he needs to be sent to the Ministry of Love. To learn to love Big Brother.
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