Ok so my friends son came home from school and asked him who he was going to vote for and his dad says I don't know yet I am still looking into this and his son said because my teacher said that everyone should be voting for Obama!
I personally agree with the right to free speech but when you are a teacher and are molding the minds of young children, I think you have a right to act responsibly and neutral unless asked outside the arena of teaching. Anyone else agree with me? I mean a kid got in trouble last week for wearing a John Edwards T-shirt but this lady can just bust out with "everyone should vote for Obama?" How do you all feel about this? What would you do /say if this was your kid. I mean when I vote I will tell someone who I voted for if they ask but I don't think what she did was right. I would never try to influence someone elses decision about something like this. how do you feel?
2007-10-14 13:29:26 · 11 answers · asked by cookiemonster 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Teachers should NEVER force their own political views upon children! My father kept telling me to watch out for how teachers will teach my son because some will force political views upon them and brain wash them to believing what they do. Now I know what he means. Shame on that teacher. I would report her, or go talk to her yourself and tell her to keep her political views to herself and not to push her beliefs, or views upon those kids. She doesn't have the right to do that. I would also talk with the Principal about this. I would. And if he/she doesn't do anything about it, then I would go to the school board. This should not happen, and since she did it once, she's liable of doing it again. Nip it in the bud. :-)
"Who is John Edwards"?
2007-10-14 13:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by lady_bella 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I was in school, I think the Crusades were still ongoing, we weren't told who was the best candidate or who to tell mommy and daddy to vote for. What we did is make election booths and paper ballots. Then we held mock elections. The outcome really did not matter, it was teaching us civics and the pride of voting.
My daughter came home from high school one day and said her teacher had said "The 50 contiguous states and Alaska and Hawaii". I went to the school board immediately without passing go and collecting the $200. I filed a grievance about the teacher. In Georgia they test teachers. It was discovered she passed by one point. She was suspended and required to take the teaching exam again. This time she failed and was fired.
Yes you should act and act fast. Talk to the Principal and demand that the teacher do something about her political views in class. Complain to the school board about this incident. Then call channel 5 and give them the story. This is the only way we can get teachers to teach and not to preach.
2007-10-14 20:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the kid had every right to wear that John Edwards T-Shirt.
I actually think public schools should have uniforms but that's another story.
If I was a teacher I would not tell the kids to vote for anybody. Not that it's necessarily wrong but I just wouldn't want to make a choice for them.
I would teach them about all the candidates and let the kids make their own choices and make a learning project out of it.
2007-10-14 13:39:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the context -- a teacher making a statement like that in front of a class is different from a teacher having a one-on-one conversation with a student or having a private discussion off school grounds on their own time, and expressing a personal opinion -- and yet again different from making such a statement at some voluntary politics-based meeting.
But generally, yes, teachers should remain neutral -- though they are people, and entitled to express their own opinions on their own time.
So, context matters.
2007-10-14 13:42:45 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The teacher is just expressing freedom of speech. That in itself is a lesson. Why does it matter? Are you voting for someone else so it pissed you off? Its not like the teacher told him to eat sh*t or something. Why make an issue of it? The school board has enough to deal with. Like truancy, drugs, underage sex, and school shootings. (That one should have went first) Is the kid even old enough to vote? If not who cares. If so who cares. I think kids are more influenced by their peers the teachers.
2007-10-14 16:54:48 · answer #5 · answered by natasha 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you the teacher should their personal politics to them selves in the class room. This is a problem with our liberal educational system to-day they start teaching this in grade school on through college.
2007-10-14 13:49:19 · answer #6 · answered by hdean45 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Before I started pannicking and reporting to this person or that person I would find out from the teacher EXACTLY what was said before deciding it was right or wrong or not just a misunderstanding.
2007-10-14 13:39:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that it doesn't matter, kids can't vote. I've heard teachers say weirder stuff then that anyway. I once had a HS History teacher that told us all that deodorant is a poison that you can absorb into your skin and that eating meat will kill you.
No one in our class suddenly stopped using deodorant or became vegetarians.
2007-10-14 13:38:54 · answer #8 · answered by Drixnot 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I can believe it. The teachers have a vested interest in promoting democrats. Democrats block any attempt to have competition for educational services, such as school vouchers. In return, teachers unions donate millions to democrats.
2007-10-14 13:42:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Talk to the Principal of the school, then go to the school board.
2007-10-14 13:36:48 · answer #10 · answered by p h 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋