Its appalling that teachers nowadays will have the audacity to talk as if they understand everything about everything and all the students should just shut up and listen because they are the alpha in the room. I mean, just last year one of my teachers tried to convince me the wage gap was true, and when I called her out she told me to shut up. Now that I got that rant out of the way, now I can get into the logistics of my argument.
The fact of the matter is students, your teachers do not know everything. Being a teacher for most people is a last resort instead of an overall goal. Our society treats teachers like replaceable objects to teach our children. This is in high contrast to other countries like Finland, where being a teacher is hard and a respectable career choice for the best in a field. Please note that I am not calling our particular teachers, because many teachers in our school are more like the Finland teachers as opposed to most American teachers, but that still doesn't change the fact that being a teacher is not the valued position it should be. With the teacher position being undervalued, many teachers tend to make less than any most other jobs in their field would have made (eg: being a science teacher pays way less than being an actual scientist). Because of this disparity in earnings, two-thirds of all teachers become part of labor unions. The fact that many teachers are in labor unions may seem insignificant, however this becomes much more significant when you take into account correlation between being a labor union member and voting democrat.
The majority of teachers being democrat archetypes may not have much of an impact on the surface, but remember how much time your kids are spending with these people everyday. Instead of being able to think about traditional gender roles as biological fact vs simply stereotypes, most kids are instead told that any feelings of femininity or masculinity are toxic stereotypes that don't apply to anyone. This impact generally has a bigger impact on girls, mostly because they are seen as "oppressed" by the boys, even though women were never oppressed at all (Before women's suffrage, men with kids were meant to be a representation of a complete family unit. First wave feminism was simply a shift from a more family-based society to a more individualist meritocracy). Because of this toxic view of men, girls get tend to get special treatment and better grades than their male counterparts. Boys are taught to be nice and quiet, and when they simply express their masculinity they are diagnosed with "ADHD" and given pills to force them to be subservient. One of the worst changes to modern schools was the recent anti-bullying campaigns. Of course some types of bullying are definitely harassment and are a violation of one's rights, however this movement has also been used to censor "locker room talk" as some kind of violent assault.
Some other examples of things kids should just take their teachers word on and not think for themselves are issues like diversity, inclusion, immigration, and gay marriage. While I'm not saying any of these are necessarily bad traits, they are complicated issues that kids need to think about for themselves and make up their own minds on. Simply being told "Diversity good! White people bad..." makes a huge impact on kids futures and decisions. Kids minds are malleable, and currently our culture doesn't have countermeasures in place to reduce the amount of political indoctrination faced by our students.
Sorry about that, but it needed to be said. In our classroom alone, the effects of years and years of constant indoctrination and the same perspective has shaped some of my peers minds into autonomous machines that spit out the same rhetoric as if what they say are indisputable cultural axioms. Unlearn what you have learned.
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