Teachers who bring their politics into the classroom shouldn’t be teaching.
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Problem w/ that idea is that students aren't consumers; they are learners. While it's wrong for teachers to force-feed a particular political agenda, students need to learn about politics. When hear stories about teachers' supposed political views, often we're imbibing +
Politics is unavoidable. Either present a balanced range of political perspectives in the context of a single educational environment, or allow the market to determine what the best perspectives are organically.
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Agree that politics is unavoidable & that teaching a range is the norm. Won't quibble w/ you on use of the term "market" except to say that most teachers would reject that metaphor as a description of how reliable knowledge is produced or learned. The difficult comes b/c +
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2/2 everything now is politicized. If I'm a HS bio teacher teaching evolution or birth control, the basic science may conflict w/ some ppl's "politics." But it's not my job to teach pseudoscience alongside the real thing, as though they were equal, & then let the market decide
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