I hear stories all the time about liberal indoctrination in our schools and centers for higher learning. I’ve always been distraught by what I’ve heard, because it’s wrong. Students are part of a captive audience, either attending class by law or by choice. Therefore, you would think that it would be wrong to preach to students about any sort of belief with a bias that is clearly held by the instructor.
It wasn’t until I started this semester that I was given a taste of what I’ve previously heard. I am frustrated, upset and disgusted with the conduct by my instructor, however there is little I can do other than dropping the class. However, since bitching about it will get me through the semester, I’ll save myself a trip to the admissions office and another semester with no guarantee this shit won’t happen again. By the way, all the other classes are full and there are no transfers available.
We’re already two weeks into the semester and we’ve yet to write anything. In all my other classes, we’re well on our way into covering the course material. In this class, the instructor has opened with a negative tone on one of the following sentences:
- “Do you know how much of the worlds resources we consume?”
- “Do you know how much money you have compared to the rest of the world?”
- “Why is our environment screwed up?”
It’s OK to ask these questions, but in context they are completly with liberal bias and not objective. To add to the frustration, our answers are asked to be objective…
The context of her speech is in line with a piece we are reading by L. Robert Khols, that discusses thirteen traits Americans have in common. I agree with Khols on his description of American traits, however I disagree with him that most Americans are blind to them. Quite frankly, I find the assumption very insulting. It falls in line with liberal ideology that states Americans are ignorant not only to themselves, but also to the rest of the world.
My instructor’s preach mode kicks into high gear when traits like materialism or productivity are discussed. The majority of the students believe that materialism is a huge negative and that extreme productivity is one of the most tragic aspects of American life. The instructor validates the students claims that scream of hypocrisy then follows up with, “would anyone like to add anything else?”
I’ve accepted the opportunity to give my perspective with much resistance. The instructor doesn’t say anything and let’s the class break into screaming battles against voiced opposition. Eventually she moves on, not requiring to say anything further since the class has discredited the opposing voice. You can’t win battles if the consensus is that you’re always wrong.
My frustrations will continue to grow as the weeks come and go. The material we are analyzing and supposed to be writing about are remarkably left leaning. This piece of material by Khols is about as moderate as it gets, however we are going to be reading a piece on how water is the next world war and fast food. I dread the class discussions when these pieces come up.
It won’t matter how much you argue that the planet’s covered in water and that even though it’s salt water, desalination exists and works. Fast food is bad for you, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to consume it. Basically, the people who argue for freedom are against you being free and that’s a major tone of the class.
I’ll definitly write more as the year goes on. I wish I didn’t need to…