My child just started the school year at Presque Isle High School. The first thing she says to me when getting home is that her civics teacher spent a majority of his time in class bashing President Trump, and referred to all Republicans as dimwits.
I can understand how differences in opinion and discussion about political views in a classroom is something that should be encouraged. But I don’t think some teachers fully realize that students take their words for fact; they treat their opinions as fact. I know it’s common for college professors to be grossly biased, but It’s hard for a teenager to argue for the other side in a classroom where the teacher is painting the ‘other side’ to be racists, dimwits or any other derogatory labels. He is entitled to his opinion but as a teacher of American politics he needs to be unbiased and explain both sides of the political spectrum. What he is doing is force feeding liberal indoctrination and spreading propaganda. That is not teaching. You would think that, as a history teacher he would be familiar with the Hatch Act of 1939.
Mason Carson
Presque Isle
