Liberal Agenda - in Denton, TX?

[chasfm11]

MyFox4.com
Published February 21, 2013

FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/21/te ... z2LZltcqo2

An English teacher at Denton High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area allegedly refused to grade two student reports because they discussed guns.

but later

In a statement to MyFoxDFW.com, the Denton Independent School District said, "The teacher has accepted the paper and apologized to the student for misperceptions. The teacher's intent was for guns not to be trivialized in any school situation because of recent events."

I'm not surprised but I am disgusted. This is just another example of how the teachers can inject their own personal beliefs into classroom situations to punish students who don't agree with them. Given the preponderance of teachers with Liberal leanings, it is no wonder that many of our kids graduate from public schools without a clear understanding of multiple points of view. The good news is that the school administration responded. The bad news is that there are likely more stories like this that didn't make the TV news.

[aggie67]

But thankfully, not all teachers are that biased.

My grandson was taking an honors American History class at Spring Hill ISD and he was required to do an involved research paper for History and it also would be used in honors English class as a dual assignment. He selected "Infantry Guns of the Allied Nations in WWII". His teacher approved the subject and was impressed with his knowledge of this subject before the research started. He completed a 15 page report with documentation and received an A+ in History and an A in English. The male History teacher told his Mother that he was not sure there was enough information on this subject, but was really suprised by the paper. It included where built, numbers produced, designers, manufacturers, and reviews by soldiers, officers and historians.

He also wanted to fire and handle as many as possible and we shot Garands, M-1 carbines, o3-A3s, Lee Enfields, 1917s and I managed to find several others for him to handle and sometimes fire at the range. He said he had lots of research on handguns, but did not include them. His comment that now he wanted to research the Axis guns of the same conflict. I guess shooting the 7.7 Jap got him interested in the other side.

Neither of these two teachers were shooters or hunters, but they supported their student in researching a subject that interested him. Teachers are like any other cross section of people: Good ones, bad ones and indifferent ones. Thank God that we still have good teachers--I feel that some of those who taught me back in the dark ages had a positive impact on both my success in life and my love of learning. I also have a school teacher wife, 2 daughters and a daughter in law, so I was required to say this.

[RoyGBiv]

I've not had any left-wing-agenda issues with teachers here in N-FTW.
In fact, I was impressed with the classroom comments I heard during the recent election and especially the Benghazi debacle.

A lot of .... "Here's what they said on the news..... but does this make sense in view of the facts" discussion.
I was pleased with what I heard.

[chasfm11]

I'm glad to hear that there are positive stories from the teaching profession. I would not have been surprised to have the subject story come from Austin or Houston or even Dallas, where I know that there are pockets of those whose agenda is to foist their own opinions on the students. I figured that Denton represented a different atmosphere.

What the story said to me is that vigilance even in rural areas about how the schools are being administered is important. I'm sure that there are good things going on in the Denton ISD, too. I'm glad that the TV news was willing to highlight a situation that wasn't in keeping with our expectations of fairness and tolerance of ideas in the public schools.