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I still don't know how it happened. I think we were on the discussion of Hurricane Katrina when I awnsered something and the teacher asked me where I heard it. I told her O'Reily on Fox. She rolled her eyes and laughed, the rest of the year was downhill from that XD;

And aside with her nit-picks with me, she picks apart Bush infront of the whole class! I beleive her last arguement was "He hasn't said sorry for anything!" I'm still wondering what he has to be sorry for, not that I'd actully say it. I havn't spoken a word since- you can't argue with an english teacher. That's like punching a gorilla in a nose, dosn't matter if they were wrong or not, they'll beat you around 5 ways till sunday with their English Masters before you even know what hit you.

Ever since I've just been gliding my way through her class, but usualy I like to participate in english classes. So it's kind of a bummer for me. D:

Oh- Anyone read that Bill O'Reily for kids book? I hear it's pretty good, but I'm unsure what age group it's for. I want to make my final book project on that >: D

It's not just the English teachers who are doing it at my school, but the science teachers as well. Specifically, my biology teacher.

Typically, I'm very tolerant of liberals. You have to be when you're living in Illinois right next to Chicago or else you would have no friends. I'm used to them and in some points (not very many) but some, I agree 100% with them. For instance, I see no problem with gay marriage. You want to marry someone of the same sex? By all means go ahead. I mean, it's not like your forcing everyone else to do the same.

However, my Biology teacher has brought down Bush many times. I first began seeing this when we were studying sperm cells. She asked a political question of "Do you think it is right?" and I didn't like this question, but I saw no biast at first. Then she had to keep talking and from her mouth spilled forth the words:

"I mean, if your a republican then you must think Bush is next to God, so say 'no'."

If I had acted upon those words and walked down to the office and called my parents, told my lawyer, etc., she would have been fired by now. She's said numerous political statements that at one point I raised my hand and asked: "When did this class become Sociology? My parents don't pay taxes for you to attack our viewpoints on politics when you're suppose to be teaching us about cells."

In fact, the majority were conservatives. She shut up. But every once in a while she'd slip in her two political cents.

Here, all my teachers are liberals and speak out. My Biology teacher, my Intro to Web Programming teacher (how this subject came up I'm not sure), my history teacher, and of course, my English teacher. It's the price you have to pay when you go to a public school. If I reported every teacher who attacked republicans in the middle of a class, there would be no teachers left. All I say that we should do is ignore the comments. Then we've become the better man.

My Sociology instructor was a lefty too, as was most of the class. I usually keep my mouth shut during political discussion so I don't get blacklisted, but if I'm cornered in a conversation I will voice my opinion.

I'm lucky that I live on a military base, lefties can't tell me my sources are biased of they are the troops themeselves. My base even provided temporary homes for Katrina refugees, I saw firsthand the media trying to get the refs to lie and say that the military was treating them poorly because the were black.

The refugees actually retailated and just the opposite, it was nice. blaugh

To tell you the truth mostly all "Public School" Teachers in this country are pretty much all lefties for whatever reason. One of the most leftist people at my school are actually not even a teacher he's our librarian. Every damn day he always tell's me some snarky smartass remark about something that has to do with our president or anything that would make our president look foolish or unjust. Just the other day when Tookie Williams was executed he told someone as I was walking by "he must have wanted tookie dead" and I'm like"he was a killer you dumbass he deserved to die!!!" and then he gets an attitude about as if he is owed my respect. I tell you this country is going to hell in a handbasket if we have these lame-brained liberals in the mass media and in office.

I've definately had my share of leftie profs. But none that seemed to give the right-minded students any grief or ask inappropriate political questions in class. They'd say someone that would indicate their opinions (as if assuming the majority of the class would agree with them) but I don't recall a student suffering for it grade-wise because they answered back, which did happen...once.

I just started my classes for the semester and I think I've finally come across a prof who would encorperate politics into an unpolitical class (Symbollic Logic).

It was a one time but basically he used an example "Either I am Neopoleon or I am President Bush." as an example or an "either/or" statement saying that, logically speaking, he could be only one or the other. I raised an eyebrow at the example...but it wasn't that big of a deal. It's too soon to make any judgements and he seems nice otherwise. He encouraged people to debate with him so we'll see how it goes.

I had quite a few, and actually, the faculty of my university were all going on strike EXCEPT the business and economics faculty

There is one liberal professor I had for intro to microeconomics and money and banking (EC-201 and EC-31 cool that I just absolutely enjoy talking with. He's approaching 80 years old, and is one of those who's lived through the depression, so he's a strong Keynesian economist. Even though he believes in using taxes to control the eocnomy to correct the issues with the Federal Reserve's conflicting policy goals (controlling inflation AND unemployment, which can't be done without sacrificing the other), he gives ACTUAL FACTS, EQUATIONS, and ECONOMIC THEORY to back up his views.

He still hasn't gotten anyone to publish his book yet, which I still have as a free PDF download for his money and banking class. It really is a shame, because even if you don't like his ideas, he gives great arguments towards his beliefs. Also, the entire business and economics division at my university all agree on ideas contradicting popular economic theories (a weak dollar and inflation is fine, while our trade deficit has little or no effect on our nation's debt).

I had a teacher this past year that was an extreme leftist, she was a registered member of the Communist party. I lacked the common sense to stop myself from arguing with her during class or simply whenever I had a spare moment. For my final paper of the year, she said we could write about whatever we pleased and gave us a 15 page max.

I wrote a paper about communism, the impractibility and false logic behind it specifically. It was 15 pages exactly, very well organized, and according to my friends and family would definitely get 100% due to the fact that I was able to use Communist texts to contradict itself. I got the paper back the next day, written across the top was the word "redo" nothing was marked incorrect in terms of punctuation, spelling, or grammer, no other comments were on the assignment.

I showed the paper to my uncle who teaches at a high school in the Portland School district, he said it wad worth an A easily. I wouldn't care if she'd given me a C for disagreeing with her, because I'd honestly expected her to do that, but to not even grade the paper is spiteful. Especially considering how much of her propoganda I've had to put up with.

I would take this up with the department supervisor or the Dean of the school you are in. This kind of bias is totally offbase when it comes to our education system. Activist professors are killing our education system causing young people not to be able to form their own opinions about the political system.