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Subject: Is it okay for teachers to express their political views in a class?

Poll: Is it okay for teachers to express their political views in a class?  [closed]
Yes:  44%
(36 Votes)
Indifferent:  25%
(20 Votes)
No:  31%
(25 Votes)
Total Votes: 81

Just wondering what the flood though about this subject. Some of my teachers try to be very politically correct while others are open with their views. Post your thoughts.

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Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.

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No.

There is a time to be professional.

  • 12.12.2012 3:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.

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Teachers love to indoctrinate you into their beliefs.

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It's a teacher's job to teach facts generally, and in subjective courses like philosophy it's their responsibility to accurately and fairly explain all sides of an issue. Throwing their personal opinion into that muddies the waters because their opinion is inherently going to be weighted differently by the students due to their position of authority.

[Edited on 12.12.2012 3:24 PM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 3:24 PM PDT

Remember those times when we all had something better to be doing, but didn't do it? Those were good times. Gooood times

Depends on the class and age/grade.
Ex: Freshman teachers tend to be 'politically correct' while my senior year teachers talked to the class like we were best friends(no language filter whatsoever)

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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.

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High school or college?

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I'd say in a public school not really. Unless they show the other side of it.

College professors, on the other hand, who DO teach only one side of it and in a manner that gives no credit to the opposing side are the worst teachers on the planet.

I cannot stand college professors who do this. They should be fired. I'm sorry, it's higher education and not indoctrination for a certain viewpoint.

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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.
Nailed it.

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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.

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No. Teach the facts, objectively. Let the students form their own opinions.

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Posted by: ANKLE5
No. Teach the facts, objectively. Let the students form their own opinions.
You can express your opinion while still teaching facts.

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Yes, whoops accidentally said no. From personal experience, I have had a large amount of teachers share their opinions mainly due to Scott Walker. I don't agree with the vast majority of my teachers, but I can think for myself.

[Edited on 12.12.2012 3:33 PM PST]

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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.

  • 12.12.2012 3:30 PM PDT

It depends on the grade level they are teaching and whether it's a discussion with the class or time for them to start preaching their beliefs.

High School and College yes, anything before that, no. And like I said it should be a discussion with the students about everyone different views not these are my beliefs and I am right so agree with me.

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Is it acceptable? eh, to an extent. To express their beliefs as to how far? Teaching them their beliefs to their students subjectively with a goal to persuade their students to believe in what they believe in is unacceptable in my opinion. Simply sharing objective facts with a bit of their views is completely fine, as long as they don't force their views into the students' faces.
I vote indifferent.

  • 12.12.2012 3:31 PM PDT

I agree with you guys about age being an important factors, as younger kids are very impressionable. However, I think that once you get to around junior/senior year, most kids already have their own opinions.

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
Throwing their personal opinion into that muddies the waters because their opinion is inherently going to be weighted differently by the students due to their position of authority.
Are you implying that most students are so weak-minded and impressionable that they're going to think the teacher's political opinions are more valid because the teacher said them?

  • 12.12.2012 4:35 PM PDT

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I don't mind it. I believe the classroom is a good place to have facts and opinions shared and debated.

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
Throwing their personal opinion into that muddies the waters because their opinion is inherently going to be weighted differently by the students due to their position of authority.
Are you implying that most students are so weak-minded and impressionable that they're going to think the teacher's political opinions are more valid because the teacher said them?


How is it being weak-minded? I tend to consider my professors to be experts on their subjects, so if my philosophy professor (this was a huge step above remedial philosophy that freshmen usually take in their first semester) had commented on certain beliefs and stated that he considered one to be better than another, I'd definitely take that into consideration. If they were speaking out of their subject, I would probably disregard it, but to answer your question, yes I believe experts on certain subjects can easily influence the beliefs of their students.

  • 12.12.2012 4:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Teach their opinions? No.

Express them? Yes.

These often go hand in hand though. If a teacher expresses their opinion, they'll probably be asked questions about it. You then have to expect them to explain their opinion, ergo teaching it.

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"I support. . ." is okay.

"You're an idiot if you don't support. . ." is not okay.

We had a poli sci teacher that was really good at method two. She wouldn't give any real homework, let children cheat on tests, and then told them how they should vote and believe. Most of the kids, being the lazy -blam!-s that my classmates were, loved her due to her lax teaching so they were eager to listen to and agree with her, and accepted her political views as fact without realizing she was actually just saying "My opinion is right."

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