When liberals teachers or professors are backed into a corner on first amendment or academic freedom grounds, it often becomes an issue of not what one said or wrote, but how one said or wrote it. In other words, style is suddenly elevated over substance. Liberal teachers and professors are psychologically blocked from reflecting on their own biases, and so unconsciously adopt rubrics which are inherently unfair to conservatives (and libertarians) in their classes. Liberal-leaning students, likewise psychologically blocked from reflecting on their own biases, do not sense any unfairness, even if it occurs before their very eyes.
The psychological blocks, I believe, are erected through years of being brainwashed by liberal public schools and liberal mainstream media.
Thus, in high school, one is observing behaviors which have already been molded years before that time, on almost all sides.
What you say makes a great deal of sense.
When I ask a liberal if they really believe what they are saying, they are usually unable to articulate a reasoning process that confirms what they say.
And the teachers at HHS, though many can see blatant bias in their actions, have no clue. Have no clue, and anyone who thinks otherwise must be wrong.
The conservative kids, as you mention, have their own biases.
One of the goals of education should be to show how to use reason and logic to evaluate things beyond personal bias, and into the realm of understanding and growth. Funny that you should mention rubrics- these are the new key to grading and evaluation at HHS, rubrics for everything.
I think this newspaper hit piece against the conservative club is not supporting that goal- it is enforcing the teacher's bias. Note how many of the quotes from the teachers sound like quotes from NEA handouts. I wonder too how much help the student author had in preparing the article. I wish the Hudson Hawk Talk student paper were online!