What I’d like to write to my child’s teacher about his gun control advocacy in class
Posted By: Bookworm      2/14/2013 12:26:50 AM
Bookworm Room, by Bookworm
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As a matter of professional ethics, public school teachers should not use their classroom to advance a specific viewpoint. It’s not just that teachers receive their pay from taxpayers who don’t wish to see their money used to indoctrinate captive children in views antithetical to some or all of the taxpayers. It’s more subtle than that. Teachers are also authority figures whose opinions color a child’s mental development and whose power over those all-important grades may coerce a student into believing that academic success requires that he must accept the teacher’s views. To force feed a specific political ideology on