Given the liberal nature of public schools, is public education causing the next generations to be democrats?
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Daevid
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I suspect that's the plan, but hopefully enough of these kids will have their eyes opened before they're old enough to vote to turn their backs on the party system completely.
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No. I wouldn't place the blame on public schooling. I think the current trend among american youths is towards liberalism. Public school probably promotes democratic thinking moreso than a private school but i would estimate their ideological influence at less than 20 percent.
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They`re doing their best, but their agenda is rather transparent. Anyone with a shred of intelligence can see right through it.
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You know I have the upmost respect for you:) But are you serious!!!
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As a card carry-n liberal Democrat I wish it was that easy , but NO, not at all that's generalization of a environment = the values and beliefs of a group in that society, and based in your opinion of it, no offense implied.
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Interesting thought. Many teachers are democrats, although I am a Republican. I don't think that is the plan. Schools are just changing with the times. They have to.
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Not exactly democrats, but the government in public education IS causing the next generations to be DUMB and IGNORANT. Many kids can't even locate America on a map. This Government WANTS the population to remain clueless and ignorant.
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Maybe (because you don't live in the states) you're not making the connection that the students of today (those who are not your children) are the doctors, engineers, politicians, teachers, writers,... of tomorrow. Even if you don't have children, you should be doing what you can to nurture our young folks...Your future is in their hands.
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I always found this ironic when people said this. Because I live and grew up and went to public school in Massachusetts, one of the bluest states, and in my junior year of high school I had a chemistry teacher who thought global warming was complete BS, and, you know, at least once a week he would go off on global warming, he had a book which basically laid out the case against global warming, and every two weeks he would photocopy a chapter and hand it out for us to read. Like I say, he was a very nice man, but, of all of the teachers I've had he seemed to be the one who tried to influence our opinion the most. I would say that I probably had more liberal teachers overall than conservative teachers, but they never got too deep into politics, a few harmless jabs at Bush here and there. We did watch An Inconvenient Truth in one science class, but I hardly found the kids' opinions to be unanimous. I mean, they created an environment for debate so you had people with different opinions. So, I don't think they try to indoctrinate the kids, they try to get them to think and you end up with different opinions, which is good.
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