Please Share If...

[Foxtrot]

please share if you've had any bad experiences with biased teachers (whether your own or your kids') I just would like to know if this is as big a problem everywhere else as it is here in Nor Cal.

[Wilhelm Scream]

I've had teachers (professors, mostly) that I have emphatically disagreed with. While it has lead to some interesting discussions and mild debates, it has never once affected my grades. This is most likely due in part to a level of mutual respect for the other's opinions on both our parts.

[Foxtrot]

I've had teachers (professors, mostly) that I have emphatically disagreed with. While it has lead to some interesting discussions and mild debates, it has never once affected my grades.

I'm not saying its affecting children's grades; I'm simply worried about them being surrounded by one opinion for 8-12 hrs a day.

[BillWeld4Prez]

there are good teachers and bad teachers. I really wish principals were in charge of hiring and firing teachers. easier to identify a bad principal than a bad teacher.

[NascarGirl2448]

My 6th grade teacher was a bitch. She always seemed to have it in for me, whether I had done anything or not. She was, as a friend of mine would say, a snake in the grass. She was a very fundamentalist religious type who never tolerated any kind of independent thought whatsoever. To make matters worse, her husband was vice principal of the school I went to, and he was just as bad.

[Foxtrot]

you should've heard my computer teacher from last year. he was always on CNN.com, and when we talked about the Somali pirates he was totally on their side. very anti-waterboarding, too.

[Impenitent]

a pro pirate computer teacher? let me guess, he worked in C...

[page017]

I've only had two teachers that I ever thought didn't give me the grade I deserved. One in 9th grade, who always seemed to give me the exact same grade on every essay and marking period. (It was a 89, not too bad, not amazing) Then I had one in college who was pretty bad. She changed the course description in between the time people signed up for it, and when it actually started. There was only a group of three of us who actually did all the reading, and made the class discussions work week after week. But in the end, this was not reflected in our grades at all, which was entirely based on race and gender. The professor left the college after that semester. And while she did have some biased viewpoints, she always got along with us in class. I never had a professor who would extensively argue with any one student. You might get argued with occassionally, or better yet, an actual debate with some real give and take, but nothing I would call over the line.

[Foxtrot]

a pro pirate computer teacher? let me guess, he worked in C...

if by "C" you mean California, then yes.

he talked about all this nonsense "I used to think the pirates were bad, but then I found out that white people were going and stealing their fish..." oh brother.

[Apatriot]

I'm not saying its affecting children's grades; I'm simply worried about them being surrounded by one opinion for 8-12 hrs a day.

Consider that a typical 16 hr college schedule means that a student has 16 contact hours with professors each WEEK (more if it's a lab class). That means that they have quite a bit of time to have other opinions around them, and time to read "National Review" online each day :-)

[Apatriot]

if by "C" you mean California, then yes. .

Please inquire to your creator about obtaining a sense of humor.

Impenitent was doing a combination pirate/computer geek joke.

C is a programming language. Pronounced phonetically, C would be "sea." naturally a computer programmer who was a fan of pirates would program in C (sea).

It's a joke, lighten up! Your college years should be fun.

[Foxtrot]

It's a joke, lighten up! Your college years should be fun.

I didn't know it was a joke or what he meant but thanks for explaining it.

[Foxtrot]

has anybody here seen An American Carol? good, funny movie, only patriotic stuff to come out of Hollywood since John Wayne. all conservatives should watch it, here's a link for more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190617/

the reason I bring it up is because there's a HELLA funny scene where the guys go to a university and the socialist quack professors break out into song.

[Long Island Bob]

please share if you've had any bad experiences with biased teachers (whether your own or your kids') I just would like to know if this is as big a problem everywhere else as it is here in Nor Cal.

It happens.

But my son is in elementary school so when I catch it is pretty easy to correct.

Once he is a teenager things may get more difficult.

[Gregor]

We've had several teachers who not just pushed their republican agenda, but one who actually included questions on a test that forced children to answer according to his beliefs. For instance he asked who the best president was and they got it wrong if they didn't pick Reagan...this was, btw, when Reagan was president. I do teach, however, in a very republican county and so it would seem that just as people who live/teach in a very liberal country might find liberal extremists, the same is true in conservative counties.

[Sinister Rouge]

I had a history teacher, who besides showing an almost impressive ignorance of American history, was also blatantly racist.
He would routinely make anti-Asian and anti-Hispanic jokes in class (but not anti-Black, I guess that's because our class had a lot of black students and no Asians or Hispanics) which bothered me since I have Asian family members.

Aside from that, I've had very few biased teachers, and quite a few idiot ones.

[BryanC]

I have attended several schools in New York, but I have yet to experience any of the socialist, revisionist, et cetera indoctrination that I read about so often here.

[Long Island Bob]

I have attended several schools in New York, but I have yet to experience any of the socialist, revisionist, et cetera indoctrination that I read about so often here.

that means one of two things

[Long Island Bob]

We've had several teachers who not just pushed their republican agenda, but one who actually included questions on a test that forced children to answer according to his beliefs. For instance he asked who the best president was and they got it wrong if they didn't pick Reagan...this was, btw, when Reagan was president. I do teach, however, in a very republican county and so it would seem that just as people who live/teach in a very liberal country might find liberal extremists, the same is true in conservative counties.
oh??

[BryanC]

that means one of two things

I am a conservative, but I have not had the pleasure of experiencing the oft discussed collegiate bias. In classes where political discourse is appropriate, my views have never been ridiculed by professors or classmates nor have my grades suffered. However, it is certainly possible that such things may occur somewhere and in some universities.

[Gregor]

oh??

Yep...I have to say, MANY of our history teachers lean heavily to the right to this day.

[Epic_Dude]

I was in my 111 English class at a private, Southern Baptist University (Campbell University). I really had this one coming to me, but still it's biased.

We were told to write a argumentative paper. That is, form an argument using your opinion on a specific topic, as chosen by the student. I was one of three students in 27 to pic something besides Abortion and Death Penalty. I chose to write about why the "Protestant Reformation, outside of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, was a Fad" The paper and my presentation in front of the class earned me almost 100% across the board with my peers for originality, delivery, and throughness of my knowledge on the topic. I supported it with exampled and such. There were 2 grammatical errors in my paper.

My grade? a C. also attached were pages run from some sort of "Protestant Manifesto" and my paper was defiled with red writing all over it about why I was wrong. Did any of the monotonous Death Penalty or Abortion papers (regardless of For or Against opinion) receive anything near what I got? No. The entire class was upset with her grading of my paper. The administration, shrugged me off.

[WreckedParty]

Ive had a radical feminist teacher once..... One female student was disrupting me during a test so i gave her a slight (and i mean slight....) kick to get some mud on her JROTC uniform. She completely took her side the whole time and frequently talked about how wives could kill their husbands. -_-