Via The Moderate Voice, I get an article about a Teacher Under Investigation for Alleged Liberalism.

This makes me laugh a wry and cynical laugh.  I remember with little fondness, my English Teacher in tenth and twelfth grade who would single out “liberal” students for abuse and ridicule on a regular basis.

Any child who wasn’t a good old redneck or yuppie was a “loser”, and was openly and publicly labeled so…and the students who were “winners” never let them forget it all the day long.  “Winners” were people predestined for success and wealth, and the “Losers” were predestined to be the human chattle of the “winners” and rightfully so.

He had us do grammar worksheets that were excerpts from Zig Zeigler, Ray Kroc, and Dale Carnegie books.  He would take out the punctuation marks, for example, and have us put them back in.

On a couple of occasions, he openly talked about God and the importance of being a Christian in the classroom (or at least about how being in a church could help you with success).  He let us know that money and success only came to “winners” who believed as he did.  He once went on an extend rant about how unions were destroying free enterprise in this country (ironic, as it was most likely only union power that kept him in a job).

He’d say sexist things like “Women shouldn’t wear red to work, because you can only sell one thing at a time”

Oh yeah, and he advertized and conducted his personal business (selling Herbalife) on school property and during school hours.

He didn’t get fired until he called an African-American child in my sister’s class a “nigger”.  Even then, he was around long enough to figure out it was my sister who had complained about it, and physically intimidate and threaten her over it.

I suppose his being fired is an example of the “liberal bias of our education system“.

Really, there’s no place for that sort of behavior in the classroom, and if that’s what this “liberal” teacher was doing, then he should be canned as well.  You can have spirited discussions, and you should…but having a classroom atmosphere that stifles dissent and is meant to only indoctrinate the pliable and destroy the resistant should not be tolerated.