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    Default Conservative Teachers?

    http://conservativeteachersofamerica.com/

    " All teachers are not liberal! Conservative teachers are often unrepresented in the dialogue in our profession. Conservative Teachers of America is a grassroots group committed to ending the Federal Department of Education, promoting local control of education, reinforcing the importance of teaching the principles that founded this nation, and standing up against the education unions and their unprofessional behavior and tactics. It is time for us to stand up and offer a new perspective–one grounded in responsibility, accountability, and core values."

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    Great post, Researcher.

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    Way to bump your own thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheResearcher View Post
    " All teachers are not liberal!"
    The writer clearly isn't an English teacher. While trying to say "not all teachers are liberal", he/she instead said that no teachers are liberal.

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    Of course they're not. Just look at the KS Board of Ed. Clearly they're consyrvytyve and it's paying off in spades.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheResearcher View Post
    http://conservativeteachersofamerica.com/

    " All teachers are not liberal! Conservative teachers are often unrepresented in the dialogue in our profession. Conservative Teachers of America is a grassroots group committed to ending the Federal Department of Education, promoting local control of education, reinforcing the importance of teaching the principles that founded this nation, and standing up against the education unions and their unprofessional behavior and tactics. It is time for us to stand up and offer a new perspective–one grounded in responsibility, accountability, and core values."
    Wag your ideo-drivel in public, & you are no conservative; you're just another limp-wristed, flabby-sphincter, brain-damaged liberal loonball. To include Pres., V.P., SECDEF, JCS, NRA, & this CToA.

    BTW, teachers don't matter; it's these Boards of Edu. (for those of you that dig acting locally) that've been demanding ideo-drivel be taught in our schools for the past 60 yr. & That idea came from a popular neo-fascist of the Cold War days, James B. Conant. & He could be a neo-fascist, but if he thought his fascist ideology needed to be spread abroad, then he was a liberal too.

    Liberals always think you need what they got; real conservatives'll say, "Getcher own."

    Oh, BTW, "grassroots" is a euphemism for "eff off & die," which is the heart of liberal interventionism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hexexis View Post
    Wag your ideo-drivel in public, & you are no conservative; you're just another limp-wristed, flabby-sphincter, brain-damaged liberal loonball. To include Pres., V.P., SECDEF, JCS, NRA, & this CToA.

    BTW, teachers don't matter; it's these Boards of Edu. (for those of you that dig acting locally) that've been demanding ideo-drivel be taught in our schools for the past 60 yr. & That idea came from a popular neo-fascist of the Cold War days, James B. Conant. & He could be a neo-fascist, but if he thought his fascist ideology needed to be spread abroad, then he was a liberal too.

    Liberals always think you need what they got; real conservatives'll say, "Getcher own."

    Oh, BTW, "grassroots" is a euphemism for "eff off & die," which is the heart of liberal interventionism.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ8glZOVV78

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    You guys crack me up

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheResearcher View Post
    http://conservativeteachersofamerica.com/

    " All teachers are not liberal! Conservative teachers are often unrepresented in the dialogue in our profession. Conservative Teachers of America is a grassroots group committed to ending the Federal Department of Education, promoting local control of education, reinforcing the importance of teaching the principles that founded this nation, and standing up against the education unions and their unprofessional behavior and tactics. It is time for us to stand up and offer a new perspective–one grounded in responsibility, accountability, and core values."
    Teachers should be neither liberal or consevative on the classroom, but presenters of facts and facilitators of reasoned discussion.

    Once ideology comes into the equation, teaching leaves and preaching arrives...

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    Quote Originally Posted by reg_indy View Post
    Teachers should be neither liberal or consevative on the classroom, but presenters of facts and facilitators of reasoned discussion.

    Once ideology comes into the equation, teaching leaves and preaching arrives...
    Wow, what a concept!
    Ya think it would ever work?

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    Quote Originally Posted by reg_indy View Post
    Teachers should be neither liberal or consevative on the classroom, but presenters of facts and facilitators of reasoned discussion.

    Once ideology comes into the equation, teaching leaves and preaching arrives...
    As a teacher I give my opinion at times to challenge students thinking. My favorite professor (my Mentor) is a Goldwater conservative on government and a strong Reagan social conservative. I liked him because he challenged my liberal thinking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by regularguy View Post
    The writer clearly isn't an English teacher. While trying to say "not all teachers are liberal", he/she instead said that no teachers are liberal.
    Did Researcher say he was an English teacher? We don't need no stinkin' grammar Nazis.

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    So this is a lobbying organization? What does it provide me as a teacher? What does it provide my students? Seems CTA is a branch out of AAE who claims not to be involved in partisan politics?

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnpolitics View Post
    As a teacher I give my opinion at times to challenge students thinking. My favorite professor (my Mentor) is a Goldwater conservative on government and a strong Reagan social conservative. I liked him because he challenged my liberal thinking.
    When the ideology of the instructor impacts the facts being presented, the issue I alluded to arises....... I too have had instructors of all ideological persuasions, all of whom used thier opinions to spur discussion, which ios a good thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reg_indy View Post
    When the ideology of the instructor impacts the facts being presented, the issue I alluded to arises....... I too have had instructors of all ideological persuasions, all of whom used thier opinions to spur discussion, which ios a good thing.
    Agreed it however happens with both arguements. When a Board of Ed attempts to remove the teaching of Evolution from the science curriculum in favor of teaching a biblical creation that is part of the problem. Evolution as presented in High School Biology and AP Biology is a relatively universal scientific phenomenon. Creationism has no scientific basis and belongs in a social science course.

    I bring this up because this post was lifted from CTA's website which parrots the AAE website it links to that claims to non partisan.

    Andrew Klavan: Why Cronyism isn’t Capitalism @andrewklavan
    Andrew Klavan is an author all conservatives and conservative teachers should be aware of. Why? Because he is a young adult author! His recent YA series, The Homelanders, is full of patriotic ideas and values. If we don’t start communicating to teens through culture, conservatism will die, and America will become something resembling Europe.
    This is the same problem you alluded to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flyboy56 View Post
    Did Researcher say he was an English teacher? We don't need no stinkin' grammar Nazis.
    It's not a grammatical error; it's a factual error. The website from which the statement was copied is that of an organization of conservative school-teachers. One would think that a teacher would be able to write a sentence that doesn't mean the opposite of the teacher's intent... or that one of the other teachers in the organization might point out the prominently-displayed error.

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    Quote Originally Posted by demopublican View Post
    Way to bump your own thread
    LOL LOL Good one!

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