Politics in our schools

[Archduke Tips]

I've noticed the trend in California schools is for the kids to follow extreme liberal viewpoints. It also seems that these teens don't even think about the viewpoint they are following.

When I was in highschool teachers always said that we would be the next people running the country and that it was important that we were taught correctly.

But this is a load because the teachers really were just attempting to impose their beliefs on the students. The teachers may not be paid much, but they do still hold a position of considerable power. Students will tend to adopt the beliefs of their teachers because speaking up against a teacher can affect grades, even though idealy it would not. Also, teachers have the whole school year to reinforce their beliefs.

Also, it is bullshit to think that highschool students will be the next people running the country. We may vote for our leaders, but we have no real idea how they are going to run the country until they are into their term.

Frankly, politics have no place in the class room. Highschool/middleschool teachers are not the appropriate people to bestow political ideals to students. From my own experiences in high school, discussions about politics would have been fine except that they always tended to become one-sided and anti-conservative. (I went to highschool in Los Angeles)

I bring this up now because I have a feeling that many of the young students who joined in the rally for looser immigration laws were indoctrinated by their teachers. I would guess that they gave an idea that keeping tight immigration laws would be racism against Mexicans.