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Most professions, however, unlike the teaching profession, do not require years of leftist propaganda classes intended to train common sense out of you.
Umm, Jeff. I'm a teacher. I graduated from a conservative university (Texas A&M) and then, after my kids were born, I went to Baylor University (another conservative university, wouldn't you say?) for my Texas teaching certificate. Please indicate where you think the "leftist propaganda" came into my education.
Can you see the problem here? People like you make broad generalizations about a group of people that aren't true of all the people in the group-- maybe not even most of the people. You're just a teacher-basher-- an any-teacher-basher. Even FR teachers. Doesn't speak well of you.

I'm willing to bet that for your Bachelor's degree you were required to take a certain number of "humanities" courses, and depending on the state you could be required to take "ethnic sensitivity" courses. Remember the uproar about Freshman students required to read excerpts of the Q'ran for a mandatory class for incoming students? I'm guessing that is the kind of thing Jeff was talking about. Texas universities may be a little different than other states these days.

People like you make broad generalizations about a group of people that aren't true of all the people in the group-- maybe not even most of the people.

Of course broad generalizations are never true of all the people in the group! But that doesn't make them not true. Most black voters vote democrat. That is a broad generalization, and is true in spite of the fact that a small minority of black voters vote Republican.

It is indeed true that most public school teachers are left-leaning liberals lacking in common sense. The existence of a minority of teachers, like yourself, who have their heads screwed on straight fails to negate the truth in my generalization.

BTW, did they teach you in ed school that generalizations are invalid if there are exceptions to them?

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