in VERMONT???
Posted on 11/25/2005 10:23:45 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Vt. Teacher Accused of Anti-Bush Quiz
20 minutes ago
A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.
Bret Chenkin, a social studies and English teacher at Mount Anthony Union High School, said he gave the quiz to his students several months ago. The quiz asked students to pick the proper words to complete sentences.
One example: "I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes." "Coherent" is the right answer.
Principal Sue Maguire said she hoped to speak to whomever complained about the quiz and any students who might be concerned. She said she also would talk with Chenkin. School Superintendent Wesley Knapp said he was taking the situation seriously.
"It's absolutely unacceptable," Knapp said. "They (teachers) don't have a license to hold forth on a particular standpoint."
Chenkin, 36, a teacher for seven years, said he isn't shy about sharing his liberal views with students as a way of prompting debate, but said the quizzes are being taken out of context.
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This is not a hard thing to discuss. It either happened or it didn't. No explaination from the teacher is needed. If true the teacher should be removed.
"She said she also would talk with Chenkin"
No need to talk to him. Just fire his ass. The parents should raise high hell about this.
If the quote from the quiz is verbatim, I'd suggest that the teacher himself is in need of an English class or two.
Liberals are such losers. I'm sure he thought himself very clever but they continue to lose, don't they?
Seems the standard response to getting caught is "taken out of context".
"digs at President Bush and the extreme right."
Kinda curious about who the writer considers "the extreme right".
You caught that, too.
Alas, a teaching license does not "ensure" competency.
Really? How are they taking out of context?
Did she not write the quiz?
"She" shoud be "he" but, hey, who knows?
I'd just like to take this as a reminder of why I hate both the NEA & the public school system so very, very much.
You are a snippy little man teacher. You are overpaid & you should be ignored.
I wonder how many people on this forum would be calling for the ouster of a teacher who used a vocabulary quiz to attack one of the Clintons?
That type of politics does not belong in the classroom - regardless of which side of the spectrum.
This illiterate high school teacher misspelled "ensuring."
"said the quizzes are being taken out of context."
This is always the liberal looneys' excuse, isn't it? How on earth is calling Republicans stupid and our president incoherent "taken out of context"? He's an idiot. And you can take that out of context all you want!!
in VERMONT???
"Just how did the NEA and the other socialist teacher organizations get so big and political in this country?"
Two words: JIMMUH CARTUH
This type of anti-Bush propaganda in the schools is quite common; my two daughters have been subjected to it from grade school through high school (and beyond!).
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