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Originally Posted by MMM
That goes to show what kind of different experiences happen in different parts of the country. Where I live this would have been a local news-worthy scandal if there was even a notion that a students grades were affected by political views. A couple local football coaches were just reprimanded for basically getting in an altercation at a bus stop after a pro hockey game that had nothing to do with the school on a weekend when no students were around. No one was arrested, but still one was fired and another demoted.
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I'm not sure where you live, but I live and grew up in California, where it's just about illegal to be a conservative, lol. However, I'm in rural CA, the city has twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats. Still, the Democrats/leftists are clustered in certain jobs, #1 among them being teachers/professors. It's strange... you could drive all over town and see McCain or Ron Paul stickers far outnumbering Obama or Hillary stickers during the election, but stepping onto the university campus it felt like you were transported to Berkeley. And it's been that way since I was in school, and before that I'm sure. A poll found that over 90% of the profs at the university self-identified as leftists, and nearly as many school teachers as well, in a town that is far more conservative. I realized that the left controls the schools in most of the country, even in my fairly conservative hometown. And more and more documentation of that control, and the abuses of it, are coming to light thanks to people like David Horowitz. It's not every teacher, not every school... I had lots of good teachers. It was one reason I decided to get a degree in History/Soc Sci teaching myself, and I taught art for many years, as well as English in Japan. But essentially 1-party control of the school and university systems in this country has led some to feel that can and should indoctrinate students rather than teach them the facts and let them decide for themselves... after all, if they did that, about half would reach what they consider to be the "wrong" conclusions and support smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation and govt control, and reject identity politics... and they don't want that to happen.