Quote:There are stories every day of liberal bias in public school classrooms.  What is insulting is this homework assignment given to 6th graders comparing President Bush to Adolph Hitler.

 

There are several other examples in this blog post with links to various news stories.  One example is to credit Mikhail Gorbachev for ending the Cold War rather than President Reagan.

In the first case... the teacher got in trouble for the assignment.  So... where's the bias exactly?  Though I don't think the assignment seems all that bad.  Both Hitler and Bush did abuse their powers in different ways (I'm sure you're a big Bush supporter, which I find strange since he grew the government like crazy)  I'm sure if this was Obama, you'd probably be praising the teacher for having 'right wing values' 


As for the second... well I know you won't believe it since it's not a right wing blog or anything, but I'll post it for any third parties who are reading this, so they can decide for themselves about Howard Zinn's Textbook (and it's 'alleged' popularity in high schools)... http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...-history-/


I know for example my wife does not use Zinn's textbook for any of her classes.  In fact every History teacher at the school uses the same textbook.  And I know that my children do not have a textbook by Howard Zinn either.  


I'm sure some teachers may choose to assign the book.  Just from a quick search (though it seems optional, and that's a teacher by teacher basis)


Most people have some natural biases, and they shouldn't let it interfere with their work.  But it's certainly not an indoctrination by the public schools, and you'll curiously rarely hear about the efforts of good teachers.


I also imagine you'd have more conservative bias in public schools as well if you had more conservative teachers (but conservatives tend not to go into the profession)

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