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Originally posted by fintstone
Yes, I certainly believe that to be the case due to our tenure system. It is like a club where you only let those in that think the way you do. Conservatives are treated poorly on most campuses and they pay the price with harassment and poor grades for their views. If they are not academically disqualified for their views, they are certainly discouraged against academia as a career move. Even if they still wanted to teach, they would have to be realistic about ever getting tenure if their politics were ever recealed. They would be silly to waste years on such a career knowing that in the end...they would be kept from tenure.
The last study I read on the subject indicated that those students that chose the teaching profession in the US were from the lowest scoring group both test and grade wise at college entrance....so I imagine that most would not see "the light" you speak of.......that is why the indoctrination is so successful.
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I find this hard to believe. Westpoint is a school as is Berkeley. Both teach, for example, Int'l Relations and also poetry. You can't really slant to the left or right poetry. But I.R. has votaries from either side, I'm certain, in either school. It would be unwise and irresponsible for established institutions to not present "sides" of a subject through their faculty. They wouldn't be viable educational institutions if otherwise.
As far as potential teachers coming from low-scoring test groups. I don't know - almost every teacher I can remember, from at least middle school through graduate school, held PhDs. You gotta' have some sort of brain to get one of
those sheepskins.