I was going to go in another vein with one of these stories but they keep cropping up.
So, here goes.
Conservatives bitch and moan about how the "liberals are brainwashing our children" and how education teaches kids to think and care for others and the environment. You know, stuff like where things are, not everyone brown needs bombed, science and condoms exist: use them, and so on. I've spent some time highlighting the lies passing as history in a Texas history book coming to a school near you.
But there are other problems with having conservatives involved in education.
In San Antonio, teachers apparently feel comfortable in bashing Mexicans to the faces of their Latino students. Said teacher was told to take a week off and is already back in class.
In Alabama, a teacher used to concept of assassinating President Obama as a means to teaching parallel lines and angles. You know, just in case some hillbilly teen might want to take a shot at our nation's leader. Once again, the teacher wasn't fired, and the Secret Service decided not to make an example of them. Again. Can we at least put ONE of these assassination lovers behind bars?
And, just for kicks, in Florida, two teachers are accused of dousing their atheist co-worker in holy water in the hopes of converting them.
Apparently that's the compassionate thing to so in the Sunshine State.
Jerks.
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