Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize

[applegrove]

Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize

Complaints that teachers push liberal ideology are trickling down from college campuses to the K-12 level

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0606/p01s03-legn.html

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

Concerned that public schools are becoming sites of liberal indoctrination, activists have generated a wave of efforts to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom.
After all, they say, if related campaigns can help rein in doctrinaire faculty on college campuses, why not in K-12 education as well?

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So far this year, at least 14 state legislatures have considered bills aimed at colleges that would restrict professors and establish grievance procedures for students who perceive political bias in teaching. None have become law, but the movement has momentum: Four state universities in Colorado, for instance, adopted the principles under legislative pressure in 2004.

"The last six months been kind of a watershed for the academic-freedom movement," says Bradley Shipp, national field director for Students for Academic Freedom, a group founded by conservative activist David Horowitz in 2003. "It is going to filter itself down to the K-12 level." "

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[bluestateguy]

1. Yet another reason the Left should not attack homeschooling or private sch

Not as an alternative to public schools (I strongly support the public schools), but as an insurance policy. If the fundy wackos and neocons get a hold of the public schools than liberal parents must be prepared to embrace homeschooling or build their own private schools.

[LSK]

2. do people not study history???????????

Hitler radically changed Germany's education system to only teach the NAZI agenda. This included science, mathematics, economics, social studies. Whether is was correct or not was of no matter, only as long as it furthered the NAZI agenda.

HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF HERE.

Everyone should read this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671728687/qid=1118035856/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-7970357-3264823

[Old and In the Way]

3. If Liberal Arts is about learning a lot of information about a lot of

different subjects, I assume a Conservative Arts degree would be given out to those who learn little about nothing.

[applegrove]

4. Oh - kid you not - they will be taught the intricacies of high finance

when they are 15. :scared:

[lala_rawraw]

5. Can they all just go back to their caves?

The are public schools. Old Dobson has enough money to build his psychotic legions as many schools as they need in order to be better brainwashed.

I think that any school that allows this type of crap to go on and is a public school, university, etc., will have to be empty.

Let's pool our resources and support Universities that bend over for Dobson.

[EFerrari]

6. Did I get this right? These morans don't want college larnin'

to be taught by accredited teachers who can only get credentials by going to college?

I'm going to find MYSELF A CAVE.

[Branjor]

7. Very telling....

in order to get more conservative views into the classroom, they have to "limit" and "restrict" what it is OK to discuss rather than expand it, which would be true academic freedom.