Teachers: Stay out of politics, parenting

Earlier this week, my Sun News colleague Paige MacPherson interviewed a female teacher on Vancouver Island who had taken her students out of school to protest against Stephen Harper.

The woman explained she taught history and “theory of knowledge” and Canada under the Conservatives was becoming something other than a democracy.

She seemed, in short, to be an idiot. But we do, in fact, live in a democracy and being an idiot is allowed. What is not is corrupting the young.

We all remember in Ontario when Mike Harris was Tory premier and there were frequent examples of teachers introducing partisan politics into the classroom and virtually indoctrinating their students into opposing the policies of the twice-elected government.

There are other and myriad cases of teachers making their politics entirely obvious to their pupils, and those politics are always of a liberal or leftist nature.  (more...)

Teachers: Stay out of politics, parenting