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1. #466922
   On September 24th, 2008 at 1:05 pm, emjem24 said:

   GladzKravtz said:

   emjem24 & navywife91 said

   1. What was it that kept you both from drinking the Kool Aid served by these ‘teachers’?
   2. Did y’all complain? You probably didn’t have much of an outlet for your complaints though.
   I suppose students are at the mercy of their teachers but I sure wish there was a way these profs/teachers could be outed.

   Gladz:

   I hope you’re still following this thread. I missed your post earlier and wanted to respond.

   1. On a historical note: I think I was already a bit skeptical of liberalism before going to grad school. I do believe that I did drink the Kool Aid both in high school and college until I started working in the “real world” and earned my own money. I honestly hate paying taxes…

   The reason, I think, that I didn’t drink the Kool Aid in grad school is because many of the master’s students had doubts. I felt like I participated in some alternate universe where everything was upside down. I didn’t want to be a “revolutionary.” I just wanted to be a teacher.

   2. As you’ve pointed out, it was hard to complain. This guy, who I think is either a far-left Dem or a communist, was the advisor to the program. He would be the person to complain to!

   At first, when he started on this Ayers philosophy crap, I thought he wasn’t serious. That he was kidding. That he continued with the “teacher as revolutionary” meme was hard to swallow. He would particularly talk about something known as the Rouge Forum which is a group of far-left educators whose sole reason of existence is to turn educators and even students into revolutionaries.

   So, given that if I had complained to this professor I would have probably been out of the program, I vented to my husband who was my boyfriend at the time. I, and my fellow master’s students would make regular trips to Applebee’s on what we called “vent nights” where we would castigate this guy and make fun of him… and how he was ruining the program. There were a few hard core believers in the program (who didn’t participate in our vent nights) but many weren’t.

   In a way, we weren’t at the mercy of some of these far-left professors because we were already on to them. We played the game. We went along, knowing that in the end most of us didn’t really believe in the core belief systems of the Rouge Forum and others like it. This professor, our advisor, isn’t even working in the US anymore… he either left or was sacked because the only home he found was a university in Canada (where frankly he’ll find a more sympathethic audience). I won’t even use this guy as a reference because he’s not reliable. In the field of education, he’d be seen as “legitimate” but in the private sector not so much.

   Even before I really began teaching, I was disillusioned. I think that many of my fellow master’s students have gone in different directions. Many not even teaching. I’m not even teaching now because the public schools are some of the biggest discriminators against military spouses. They’ll bend over backwords to get you to sub and pay you even less if you teach in lieu of the regular teacher for a few quarters of the school year but that’s about it.

   I would warn anyone who goes into the field of teaching to watch out for this, whether it’s a BA program or a Master’s program. Many teacher’s preparation programs are contaminated by Rouge Forum practitioners. I’m not interested in social justice, I just want to teach history.

2. #466971
   On September 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pm, emjem24 said:

   navywife91 said #91:

   I think that the new motto for the Dems should be: Hindsight is 20/20. The only people that truly understand what military spouses/families are going through are members of that community. Not politicians. Not journalists. Not private citizens like Omu.

   I, too, am disgusted, and now it seems that people like Omu and the American people want blood and want to take out their anger on the military. I’ve seen this with former friends and even people in my own family. It’s made me cynical.

   What’s even striking is that Omu really isn’t a conservative. He wants blood and wants to take it out on the Republicans. Many conservatives I’ve spoken to either will vote for McCain or third party. There is absolutely no mention of Obummer.

   This is what our country has become. Republicans aren’t perfect, by any means, but not all are bad. The American people are running on a mob mentality where they’ve found their new Elvis, pin up, or version of The Beatles.

   BTW, have you heard from Terrig? I haven’t heard from her in a while and I know one of her children is critically ill. If you do… let her know I’m thinking about her.

3. #468247
   On September 25th, 2008 at 9:16 am, pokenhorn said:

   Lots of talk about Obama’s position on this matter or that. Who cares? What difference could it possibly make? The man hates this nation. You cannot sit at the knee of a poisonous creature like Jeremiah Wright for twenty years (that’s 20) and not share his views and admire his positions. The Democrat of today is the local agent of the World Wide Left. The WWL seeks more and more government managing more and more of our lives. Obama has come so far on cunning and guile. By any and every measure Obama is unfit. ANd yet this deceitful press of ours may win the day for him.