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Originally Posted by samurai007

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.

I am right above you in Portland, OR, samurai. probably one of the most liberal cities in the country. I also went to college in Eugene, OR, another incredibly liberal college town.

I am not going to discount your experience, but after all the meetings and conferences I went to with fellow teachers over the years I can tell you that if there is any method of organized liberal indoctrination going on in this country they sure never let me in on it.

I had both conservative and liberal colleagues when I was a teacher, but there was an unwritten rule that politics stays off campus. To be honest we were all too busy trying to fulfill our lesson plans and scrapping money to pay for supplementals to think about filling kids' heads full of political talk.

So I think statements like "the left controls the schools" are a little misleading. Even if the majority of teachers tend to be democrats doesn't mean there is an organized attack on the nation's education system. Every industry has a majority one way or the other politically. It doesn't mean indoctrination is happening.