Should I Be Fired for Being a Conservative Teacher?

Often I hear from fellow teachers that I should be fired since I have conservative beliefs. I get emails from these liberals and they talk about me on their blog, making claims that since I am a conservative, I should not be allowed to be around children, I am clearly intolerant of others, and that everyone should be welcome to be a teacher in this country as long as they are all liberals.

These liberals are afraid that my conservative ideology might find its way into my teaching and that my beliefs in a limited and defined role for the government (since it likely represents the greatest threat to my life, liberty, and property) might get into my lessons, or that my belief in putting as much decision-making at the local level might be heard by students, or that my wacko ideas about having judges who make decisions based on a color-blind law that equally applies to everyone could slip out, or that I might get a student thinking that the best way to achieve peace is through a strong military, or even that my strong family values could corrupt the poor innocent children and turn them away from their liberal path of free love, free drugs, and unhappiness.

So these fellow teachers of mine post in my comments, email me, or comment on their little frustrated blogs about how- in a shining example of how tolerant they really are as liberals- I shouldn't be allowed to be a teacher. In their minds, there is only one way to teach history, one way to teach government, one way to teach literature, one way to teach music, one way to teach a foreign language, and that way is to fill it with as much liberalism and liberal indoctrination as possible and then force it down students resisting brains. If a conservative teacher doesn't do this, then they need to be fired, these liberal teachers claim, even if the conservative teacher simply gives forum to both sides and gives students choices on what to believe and plays devils advocate with liberal views and statements to challenge students to think critically about what they are saying and writing and doesn't in fact push any conservative views.

You see, the liberal teachers know in their hearts that you are a conservative teacher, and that your simple presence in the classroom represents a grave threat to them, because if you teach kids critical thinking and present both sides of the issues, it will break the spell of indoctrination that the frustrated and angry liberal teacher is trying to weave. They know that if you give a conservative and liberal argument equal time, the students will be smart enough to pick the conservative ideas and arguments as the correct ones. If you display all of the faults of both Republicans and Democrats, if you have students read works from both conservative and liberal writers, if you hold up in an equal light the policies and results of both Republican and Democratic Presidents, you give students multiple possible explanations for the cause of the Great Depression and have them choose which is the most persuasive, you have your students watch foreign language films on both conservative and liberal themes, you sing songs both rap and patriotic, etc, then students will laugh at the liberal views and accept the conservative views, since the conservative views are right.

So, in response to all of your liberals emailing and commenting and blogging about me, I want to state for the record that when you suggest or call that I be fired for being a conservative teacher, all your are demonstrating is your intolerance and your desire to push your ideology over teaching students and teaching critical thinking. When you question if I should be in the classroom, you are questioning whether teachers representing the ideology of most of the students should be allowed in the classroom, and that's a dumb question to ask. Your calls that I be fired demonstrate more than anything that you are unfit to be an educator in this great nation and that you should be fired- not for being a liberal, but for being a judgemental, angry, vindictive, unaccepting, intolerant, close-minded individual whose values might be passed on to their students.