More free speech.

[TexKan]

heyyyyyy............. just my humble opinion.......... I can't rebut cause all I heard was what was on the news........ don't have enough time to sit and listen to the tape and follow the story......... based on the news story I heard I feel this guy was out of line...... there are 2 sides to every issue............ I'm keepin my opinion cause right now I don't have the time or desire to investigate it further. I never heard of human geography........ but then again who cares? I just don't don't think you as a teacher should have a platform of any kind in the classroom. These kids are trying to get a grade from this cat.......... "personal" preferences should never be an issue, but human nature says it is........ it's very hard to be unbiased when you are trying to convey a message...............

[Highwayman]

On Point: Molding the future
Vincent Carroll
March 9, 2006

So his professors planted the seed.

Yes, Jay Bennish was taught to be a "change agent" and "to push the envelope" while getting his teaching degree at Northern Arizona University, one of his professors there confirms. And if you wonder why professor Peggy Raines would so casually acknowledge such a dubious goal for public school teachers, it's because her university's teacher-training program is not at all unusual. And she sees nothing remarkable in that remarkable fact.

Bennish, an Overland High School teacher on leave because of his political rants in a geography class, is one of thousands of teachers who have graduated from programs that promote what amounts to social activism and edgy indoctrination in the class - and do so proudly, too.

The Chronicle of Higher Education documented this trend in a Dec. 15 article, noting that "some education schools have begun questioning whether students value social justice, acknowledge white privilege, and agree to be change agents in battling sexism, racism and homophobia." Given the transparent purpose of such goals, even students merely skeptical of race-based preferences on behalf of affirmative action would obviously run into trouble - although their position is shared by most Americans.

According to the Chronicle, the teacher-training program at the University of Alaska, to cite a typical example, insists that "all teachers" should seek "to constantly examine the status and power that comes from being white."

Just last month, a public outcry forced Washington State University to revise a politically charged evaluation form for would-be teachers that had been used to identify and punish conservative leanings. One student who had refused to give the expected answers regarding "the complexities of race, power, gender, class, sexual orientation, and privilege in American society" was ordered to take sensitivity training or leave the program. Ed Swan refused to do either, and his complaints provoked the belated reform.

Bennish is the product of a teacher-training enterprise that on some campuses has slipped its moorings. The only question is how many more of his ilk are hectoring our kids.

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