As you know (or maybe not if you are here for the first time) I recently published several reports on Mr. John Daly (here, here and here), an adjunct professor at Warren County Community College in which he lambasted a conservative student for her politics and said “Real freedom will come when [U.S.] soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.” Daly, under pressure from around the nation resigned just a little while before the Board of the College met to decide what to do. Dr. William Austin President of the college promised that faculty and staff of the college would receive “sensitivity training” as to the rights of students to speak out and to hold political beliefs different from their professors.

Now comes news via Breitbart from the state of the Peoples Republic of Vermont (full disclosure, my wife has family that resides in Vermont) of an English and Social Studies teacher that used quizzes to poke at President Bush and those of us on the right. The headline is “Vt. Teacher Accused of Anti-Bush Quiz.” The headline is incorrect as it turns out, it’s admitted (but excused of course.)

A sample quiz question:

I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes.” [emphasis added] ( For you lefties the correct answer is “coherent” - in case you went to a public school.)

Now, I don’t know about you, but perhaps the question needs a significant re-write. How about:

“I wish the left would stop using their (lecturn and syllabi OR position and automobile) to advance their leftish causes and proclivities.”(again, for you lefties, the correct answer is lecturn and syllabi)

The Principal, Sue Maguire noted that teachers “don’t have a license to hold forth on a particular standpoint.” She also noted that she is taking the complaint seriously.

The teacher, one Mr. Bret Chenkin, who has been teaching about 7 years states:

The kids know it’s hyperbolic, so-to-speak,” he said. “They know it’s tongue in cheek.” But he said he would change his teaching methods if some are concerned.”

Let me see if I have this correct, the teacher will change his teaching methods if some are concerned? He didn’t know that they would be? Hell no he didn’t, he is a lefty and leftys always think that what they do is OK; well, for the most part, no doubt Bill Clinton knew he was doing wrong, otherwise he wouldn’t have spent so much time and capital covering it up.

Oh, and while I’m at it the phrase “below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes” is insulting in the extreme. Not only to republican students in his class, but to me personally, I’ll stack my IQ against his any day of the week. Creep!

Daly resigned, will Chenkin have the decency to do the same, or even the huevos to admit that he was flat out wrong? Don’t hold your breath!

Xposted at GM’s Corner

Said GM @ 8:30 pm | Permalink   

1. GM, I’m sure your little toenail has a higher IQ than Chenkin — even after it’s had it’s annual clipping.

   Comment by The MaryHunter — 11/27/2005 @ 9:35 pm

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2. It is funny that you insult Chenkin’s IQ….is that because your IQ is a little low? Chenkin is the epitome of brilliance. whether you like it or not. Do not judge someone you do not know.

   And what if this was a conservative who said something radical about Bush? No one would dare to think about challenging that. You are all still stuck in the red scare…except now its the liberals… someones always out to get you huh? I do not understand how you all can come to a conclusion about a situation which hasn’t been fully covered…at all? so here is some advice. Don’t.

   Comment by Krista — 11/28/2005 @ 8:33 pm

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3. Ahh, Krista, your comment is so pithy! Not!!

   First, I’m not the one who said “below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes,” He did. That is insulting to anyone who votes for Mr. Bush. Secondly, you complain that I “insult Chenkin’s IQ” and then you ask if mine is a little low. Who is insulting whom here? Actually my child (that is, of course, an assumption based on the belief that an adult wouldn’t make such an argument), my IQ is pretty high, in the top 3% of the population, maybe in the top 2%, I’d have to pull out my statistics book to double check.

   As to what would I say if I knew that a teacher did exactly the same thing in support of Mr. Bush? I would do a post on exactly the same thing, in exactly the same way. Teachers do not, repeat child, do not have the right to inculcate their political beliefs into the classroom. What about this didn’t you understand?

   I’m left with the possibility that you are/were possibly related to Mr. Chenkin and so rush to his defense; or possibly, that you were one of his students (how else would you know he is “brilliant?”), and thus show that you have been contaminated by his teaching style.

   Lastly, I’ll leave you with this thought, arguing with a committed lefty is as foolish as teaching a pig to quote Shakespeare. First because it doesn’t do any good, and secondly because it ticks off the pig.

   Comment by GM — 11/30/2005 @ 5:55 am

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