The Blaze:
A Georgia middle school teacher has reportedly been removed from the classroom and forced into retirement after parents complained about controversial classroom comments she purportedly made about President Barack Obama back in February. Nancy Perry will leave her educational role at Dublin Middle School in Dublin, Georgia, at the end of the school year after parents alleged that she told students that Obama is a Muslim and that anyone who voted for him couldn’t be considered Christian, the Daily Mail reported.
Problems for Perry began when a 12-year-old student went home and told his parents about the teacher’s purported remarks. “If your parents voted for Obama, they’re evil and I don’t see how your parents could vote for someone that’s Muslim,” parent Jimmie Scott told WMAZ-TV, recapping what his child claims Perry said.
And that is the absolute right decision to make. Politics should never be part of the classroom experience. Except, of course, if it is a political class and even then, the teacher should keep their opinion to themselves. Yes, we have seen many cases of that Leftward political bias in the public schools and have blogged about it many times. Some may think I’m being a wee bit Pollyannish here by saying neither Left or Right should be pushed (“But Skip, why SHOULDN’T we have the Right just doing what the Left has been using the schools for decades?”).
Wrong. Teachers are there not to make wee little skulls full of mush into any kind of Jr. Social Justice Warriors. It is not their job to replace what their parents are teaching them (or conversely, enter in where parents are not) or indoctrinate their students in any kind of morality. That’s not their job – and I don’t want to hear the complaint of “well, they’re not teaching them what they should know so why not that?”.
