And some teachers think their kids aren't paying attention. ;~D

If I were a parent of one of those students, I'd be furious. He is a teacher and he is interjecting too much personal opinion and assumptions when he should be teaching facts. I've heard this argument before regarding the IDs at the polls. It's a lame argument. Most people and even those that don't drive , have a state issued ID. You need an ID for so many things such as using the library, cashing a check.

Just last night, my daughter asked me to read a section from her history book and help her answer the questions which were about Hawaii. The questions were sbout how we acquired Hawaii, how we treated the Hawaiian natives and how they felt about it. I told her I didn't even need to see her textbook, I was sure it was all about the evil, imperialist Americans who trampled all over the rights of the native inhabitants of yet another land. Sure enough, the chapter was entitled "American Imperialism". The text was very slanted of course, but the most interesting bit came at the end of the chapter where they explained how it became a territory in 1898 even though no Hawaiians got to vote on the annexation. The next sentence was "In 1959, Hawaii became a state". Nice, they just skipped 60 years of history, years during which Hawaiians lobbied to become a state and by the placement of the preceding sentence, they managed to make it appear as if we just made it a state without any Hawaiian having any say in it. The reality, of course, is that Hawaiians voted overwhelmingly for statehood (17 to 1) because they wanted the rights of statehood and wanted to gain the vote. I pointed out to my daughter the omission of sixty years of history and the way they tried to make even statehood to appear as an example of the evils of America and she said "I don't care, I need to answer the questions in the way the book says so I can pass". And that is the sad truth - the right answer is the one they want. I remember one of her teachers in seventh grade nearly tearing her hair out when she found out that my daughter didn't believe in global warming - "after all this time we spent teaching you about it, you don't believe in it?" Public schools are simply institutions of indoctrination and we wouldn't recognize what the textbooks of today teach.

That sets my teeth on edge. This is education? This is a classroom? No wonder Obama wants more of it.

I tried to see it, but it had been removed by the user. I guess that means that Obama lovers threatened him and his parents.

I'm not sure if this is a teacher or commentary from MSNBC. Does he work at the school or is he just visiting on an Obama campaign stop? This guy goes right through the talking points. Soft bigotry to boot. Minorities can't get ID, because they're minorities. America beats up small countries. America is socially unjust. And he just has to tell them how unfair taxes are -- by using a lie, of course, pretending that percentage is amount. If this guy were any more left wing, he'd fly around in circles. The scary part: I had TWO teachers exactly like this guy. And I'm definitely nobody special from no special place. This is the garbage schools are inundated with.