Why is school culture so fascistic?

[playahata1]

All teachers, please weigh in.

I have just read and responded to a thread about the New Mexico poetry teacher who was fired because his students' work did not kiss Bushco's ass. The actions of the principal is just another in a long line of stories I have read about these know-nothing, authoritarian, autocratic school administrator/enforcers who parrot the Repuke party line.

I would not want to be a high school teacher these days, as I have many differences, philosophical and otherwise, with the educational system in this country. Are most school administrators on a power trip? Do they really believe that THEY AND THEY ALONE are the law?

If I sound disjointed, it is just that what happened in New Mexico angers me to no end. I speak as a writer and an artist as well as an educator. How dare people like this asshole shut down this valuable avenue to creativity and self expression?

Get the sad story here, folks:

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials...

http://www.splc.org/newsflash_archives.asp?id=670&year=2003

Peace.
RAN

[Cheswick2.0]

1. Because the right set out 20 years ago to take over school boards

Administrators are scared for their jobs too. It is a mess for sure.

[mot78]

2. Because the RWers scream "Liberal Bias" each and every time

SOmeone at a school makes the slightest arguement against *.

[MAlibdem]

3. Not at my school...

Where I just finished classes (yesterday). In my English class (basically a rhetoric and philosophy class) we entertain all sorts of ideas. We read Limbaugh and Earth First at once. We read Pirsig and Dillard and creationists and post-humanists and existentialists and Orwell and Rousseau and Woolf and everything in between. The class is basically a Socratic forum. I love it! Too bad it's over though...

[playahata1]

4. Are you a teacher or a student?

Either way, what grade? Public school, or private? Good for you, having such a nice diverse reading list.

[LifeDuringWartime]

5. my school isnt too bad

small junior/senior high school in upstate ny. ive never heard of a teacher being fired or reprimanded because of students' work.