SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:
I don't care what they deal with, they have a responsibility to take the parents values into their own hands wether they like those values or not and they don't. This is a big problem. |
Whose parent's values is that then? There are 30 kids in a classroom all from different backgrounds and ethnicities.
My mother once got in a 'fight' with my history teacher as he was blatantly promoting the CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal) in class. She was a school advisor, fervent feminist and member of the PVDA, so went there to demand neutrality in class.
That's just one example, every teacher has a bias. Be it liberal, conservative, woke (whatever that means), racist, pro/anti religion. It's a good thing kids get many different teachers in high school to make up their own minds. Nothing wrong with getting different perspectives (although racism and genderism has no place anywhere)
As long as the school curriculum is based on equality and freedom of expression, a bit of bias in teachers is fine. That's what kids will be dealing with the rest of their lives anyway.
The best teachers are those that teach kids to think for themselves. Like our religion teacher taught us about the similiarities and differences between several world religions without pushing Catholicism as the ideal (I went to a Catholic school). Our social studies teacher was teaching us about the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union while all eyes were on Desert Storm, the first Iraq war. He also taught us about bias in Newspapers, having us source different newspapers collecting different views on the same events to spot the differences in reporting.
School is not just about teaching 'facts', it's about learning how to interpret them. Schools today should be teaching about echo chambers, bias in social media next to / versus mainstream media and how to find and cross check information on the internet. Teach kids how to spot an 'agenda' and motives behind certain views. |
I'm taking abou WAY more basic stuff. Gender roles. Ethics. Pride of the nation in which they teach and what not.
