Yesterday Hubby and I took 3 of the Sons out for some trashy-but-satisfying fast food and familial conversation, without the need for dish-washing.
Son #2 was talking about his history teacher, who has spent the past few weeks praising the merciful, useful Social Security system which only has minor problems and which protects us from ourselves, by saving our money for us and giving it back to us when we need it, because "Most Americans are too undisciplined to save for their own retirement":
"She had never heard of a Ponzi scheme, so I explained it to her. Whenever there's something like that, that she doesn't know, she calls me up to her desk and asks me to explain it to her quietly, so the other students don't hear it. Then she goes on with her lesson and doesn't mention it to the class."
Son #2 comes home from school most days with some basic piece of information that his teacher swears she's never heard before. Most of the time, according to Son #2, his teacher's main goal seems to be to ensure that the rest of her students never hear about that stuff, either. Is she embarrassed by her own ignorance? Is she using her classroom to promote a political agenda?
In the spirit of "You can learn something from anyone", and "Son #2 should find something to respect in his teacher, because she is his teacher," I asked him, "Well, what does she know?"
I figured he'd say, "Well, she really loved teaching about the War of 1812" or "She gave us so much information on the Whig party that I thought it was going to come out my eyeballs" or something.
No.
"Well, she knows Republicans are evil."
I would say she probably knows a lot about whales, too.
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OMG! That is the funniest thing I have seen. Love the whale call at the end.
The Onion is the best thing in the whole entire world.
Also, the teacher needs to go.
Hmm. Scary. I had no idea about how slanted education can be until college when someone pointed out to me that education (and I went to public and state schools)has a primarily liberal slant.
Once I became aware of this it was like..yee gods! "the scales have been lifted"
I was surprised by one Poli Sci professor. He was pretty neutral and maybe even conservative. I was guessing (stereotyping!) that as a black man (in a pin striped 3-piece suit no less!) he might be more liberal but..nope. The suit should've given me a clue.
Does she tell the kids that Republicans are evil? That shouldn't be allowed! What do her opinions have to do with anything? Ohhh - annoying.
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