Oh, and students are a captive audience. Can’t just get up and leave like the Democrats do from legislative bodies when they don’t like what’s going on.
Oh, and students are a captive audience. Can’t just get up and leave like the Democrats do from legislative bodies when they don’t like what’s going on.
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Which is why I kept my political opinions to myself when I was a high school teacher. The ‘Rat teachers in the school did not censor themselves in the least in this area.
I remember that, in 2000, when there was a lot of political talk going on, my students would occasionally bring up politics even though this was a science class. My response was to tell them always that I had my own strong political opinions but that it would be unprofessional of me to foist them upon them.
One day, as I was reminding my seniors that those who were 18 should be registered too vote, one young man asked me on the side which party he should register with. My response was to give him the URLs for the respective parties - ‘Rat and GOP.
I told him the best thing to do would be to look over each site and determine which one seemed be in line with his personal opinions. It was killing me, but I really thought it would be unscrupulous for me to do this any other way.
When he told me a few days later that he had registered R, I was gratified.