Posted on 03/20/2017 6:19:36 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
There's a reason why nobody really noticed when major media outlets dropped their education beats: They weren't doing much to begin with, other than recycling public school press releases.
You can get a flavor of this by perusing the articles that the so-called mainstream media occasionally publish on education. For example, the Associated Press (AP), in a story that got a lot of pick up, reported on March 16, 2017 that "Teaching current events in the age of President Donald Trump has become fraught with peril for some educators who have interjected their personal political beliefs into the classroom."
"A New York City teacher was warned over a homework question critical of Mr. Trump. An Alabama district fielded complaints for a teacher's 'Obama, you’re fired!' caption under a Trump display. And video caught a Texas art teacher shooting a squirt gun at an image of Mr. Trump, and yelling, 'die!'
"Is it ever OK for teachers to offer up their viewpoints?
"It's become a debate among educators at a time when students have become energized by classroom discussions of such hot-button issues as immigration and racial justice.
"Education experts say teachers should be careful not to shape their students' beliefs for them." Really, the ability to actually find a Trump supporter in pedagogical ranks proves that the MSM is still capable of needle in a haystack research.
Nevertheless, we've found, along with parents and students around the country, that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a malady that is especially prevalent in the education establishment, from kindergarten through college.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail mal.kline@academia.org.
LOL! As if that isn't the entire purpose and function of modern public education!
“Education experts say teachers should be careful not to shape their students’ beliefs for them.”
LOL! As if that isn’t the entire purpose and function of modern public education!
They are not teachers anymore. They are highly paid brainwashers.
I remember reading a story about the educators at the Univ of Colorado, Boulder, back in the late 80’s. ‘They’ surveyed 198 Profs and 196 declared themselves Democrat. The other two Republican. But after the survey was published, one of the ‘Republicans’ came out as a Democrat saying ‘I was just joking’. The indoctrination has been relentless since I was in college, back in the 70’s. I guess we are fortunate that we have had any Republicans in higher office, in the last 50 years.
When the 60s leftists all graduated college they took over the colleges.
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