Re: a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan
Nathan Newman wrote:
Which is why from the left and the right there is no much political energy spent on shaping curricula in the classroom. And schools have the legal right to discipline any teacher who deviates from the approved curriculum. Most towns don’t exercise that power completely and give teachers some flexibility, but if teachers think their purpose is to slip in information outside “mainstream US political discourse”, they should be campaigning for education curricula reform, not becoming teachers.
It’s been a long time since I was in a public school, but I remember a constant barrage of “patriotic” anti-Communist propaganda, starting with the pledge of allegiance in the morning (a ritual that, as someone pointed out a couple of years ago, exists in no other democracy). Does the equivalent happen today?
Doug