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The other 19% didn’t know what BLM meant.

I wouldn't be surprised. Ex-wife is a teacher, and a good one. You wouldn't believe the degree of dumbass in that crowd. Most of them would see "Black LIves Matter", never do any further research, and throw their votes and money at it.

I'm not kidding.

Doesn't surprise me depending on area. My wife is a teacher in public schools and in our area in rural NC its not nearly that high. A couple of my teacher hunting buddies are as conservative as you'll find too. I will agree that teaching isn't the hardest degree to obtain and can draw the low motivation student. Not many scientists and engineers suddenly decide to start teaching. That being said there are plenty of intelligent people in this world that suffer from the mental disorder of liberalism.

Hard to say. My daughter has dual-credit classes at the local community college. Las year, when she was 15, she had a professor who was very liberal and made nearly every issue/event about racism. To the point that the hispanic and native american kids in the class would chuckle at his constant references to 'racism'. My daughter argued with him on several occasions and even called out his silliness a time or two in front of the class. I told here that I didn't mind if she failed the class as long as she stood her ground. Surprisingly, she received an A in the class.

My neighbor (teacher) started the unsolicited mentioning of how she couldn't go back to work 2.5 months ago. They were getting primed back then. She randomly mentioned it to my wife and me on several pass-by occasions and I found the redundancy tedious, so I finally asked her if she was high risk. “No” was the answer.

I asked if she felt she’d die if she caught it. “I don‘t want to find out” was the answer. I then stated that unless she had other information, I was led to believe survival is 99% and asked if not finding out was worth setting an entire generation of children back in educational and social development.

She was visibly agitated and said she didn’t want to die. I’m assuming she’s being fed a daily dose of fear and loathing from school acquaintances and union updates, but the point is, regardless of the source, she’s marching in lockstep with the narrative and I’m sure that carries over to topics like BLM.

Before my transfer to PA, my hunting buddy’s wife taught, as well. Aydlett, NC. She came with stories about throwing pizza parties if the one kid that had behavioral issues didn’t have an episode for 2 weeks (bullying, standing up on the desk and shouting, etc). Meanwhile, every other (properly behaving) kid gets nothing. Teaching 1 kid how to hold people hostage to hostility and training 18 others how to submit to it.

You ever been around your conservative hunting buddies in a room full of teachers and their boss?

What survey? Where is the survey? Let's look at the survey before we comment on its veracity.

https://www.edweek.org/rc/index.html

Your article, only linked to the Daily Mail (and one of two administrators), which made mention of a survey done by Ed Week Research Center but where is this 'survey' that is now being talked about?

Until I see a survey and see who and how many people answered the survey and see if it was even done or if teachers or administrators or boards or who actually answered a survey (and how many), there is no survey and the whole article and reference to a survey is bs. (checked all surveys and research reports for June. Nadda survey that I can find?)

(offspring of an educator that actually taught me to have a critical eye and question everything! "of teachers surveyed" could mean none or 5?)

Sweeping comments that ALL teachers are liberal is about as useful as people saying guns are bad. Think about it. How about a survey of teachers leaving the profession in droves? (just as cops are) Government officials are pressuring school districts which in turn call the shots as to teacher behavior and resources but reference to a survey that supposedly reports what teachers actually 'think', when one can't even FIND said survey, just angers and frustrates me.

A teacher has no business expressing their political leanings to their students.

It should be fired. Disciplined at a minimum.

Very similar to my experience. One summer I took a graduate course in correlation and regression. They threw in education students, teachers who were working on an advanced degree. The contrast was stark. The education students would ask questions that had the other students (and probably the prof) rolling their eyes.

I don't mean to disrespect good teachers, but it's well documented that graduate degrees in education fields, as reflected by GRE scores among other metrics, are not especially intellectually demanding.

Nope but I can imagine they chew their cheeks until they bleed and STFU just to stay employed. They do have choices in the curriculum and how it is delivered and I'd bet they wouldnt promote any liberal BS. One in particular has his own woodworking business and no money issues and could quit whenever he'd like if he had enough but recently stopped teaching middle school science to take over the HS shop class.

Just fished with the other last weekend and said they have a new black female principal who appears to be "woke". He seemed thrilled with the idea of working for such an idiot. Both worked at the same school until the other took that shop position.

My wife teaches Kindergarten so she is well aware of the preferential treatment given to those type kids just for doing what is expected of others. Her having had a few of those over the years make me realize I could never teach and deal with them and keep my cool. The new remote/in-person schedule they are on is even more difficult on teachers. The good ones really do care and carry a lot of stress. Our great governor decided they weren't worthy of a raise this year since he couldn't tie in his socialistic handouts to the bill that would have given them a raise. Sadly at least 60% of teachers will still vote for the jackass since he has a D beside his name.

Hear, hear!

Over a long stretch as a university student and teacher I watched the math education major deteriorate. At the beginning the requirements were those for a math major with a couple of classroom management and ed theory courses on the side. The math courses they took were the real ones for math, physics and engineering. At the end they were ed majors with a few math courses thrown in, and those were mainly contrived "XYZ topic for Teachers" jobs.

Reading your 5 paragraphs that state you are needing a source to prove that 80% of teachers are liberals, just angers and frustrates me.

He is one stupid Biotch that's for sure lol

I’ve known a few teachers in the recent (20 or so years) past. As a general statement, these are good people, two that specifically come to mind, think that they are conservative, but by my definition .....don’t make the cut!

I see several folks here that believe that the 81% is too high. I suggest that our opinions are based upon personal experiences. If we are conservative, we tend to gravitate toward conservatives and most likely live in a relatively conservative area/region. As a graphic example.....there is no way in hell that I would live in NYC! I would choose a much more conservative region of the nation to reside and be employed in! Hence....I would know more conservatives, which would affect my perception of the liberal vs. conservative percentile! memtb

I guess it really depends on the State you live in. My wife is a retired teacher. The majority of her x teacher friends are conservative. I’ll admit there is also a couple of nuts. Hasbeen

The headline is misleading. 81% of teachers surveyed means they polled a group of them not all of them. Where I live they are probably representative of the population. Conservative,Liberal, and in between. I have several in my family and all are conservative. I know several and how they believe and more are conservative than liberal. They get liberal ideas shoved at them in college but when they get out in the world start working and raising a family many figure out they were conned in college.

Either many of you speak as to what you do not know or maybe your are radicals? But your blanket statements are unfounded. I am a teacher..for many years. I live in the upper midwest in a conservative state. Off hand I do not know any other teacher that supports all of what you mentioned. We may support people treated fairly but we also believe rioters and looters, idiots- should be put down. I can't speak for big cities, large communities east or west of me but in the general area of the country we are not liberal. So throwing blanket statements around about how awful all teachers are is like someone saying "EVERYONE on 24hrcamp are radical dipsh!ts." I would assume this isn't true?