Political indoctrination is obviously not limited to college campuses. We've had repeated requests to cover incidents in elementary school through high school. While that's outside the scope of our current film project Indoctrinate U, it still deserves attention.
Take, for example, the recent case involving Bret Chenkin, a teacher of English and Social Studies in Vermont's Mount Anthony Union High School. Bret realizes that being a teacher affords many opportunities to slip his political opinions in front of his students. The Associated Press reports that Bret "said he isn't shy about sharing his liberal views with students."
That might explain why he placed the following word choice problem in a recent quiz:
I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes.
Perhaps someone should contact Mr. Above-Average Mind to tell him that ensuring--not insuring--is probably the word he wanted. But who cares if the students aren't learning English from this English teacher? At least they're learning the "correct" political views.
26 Nov 2005 @ 10:02am