Jay Bennish Returns To Class, With No Apparent Penalty

It's not the lack of penalty that rankles. I don't think he should have been fired, or have had his salary cut. I think he should have had a stern talking-to about what the geography curriculum embraces and what it doesn't, and the inappropriateness of indoctrnating kids with left-wing cant with no contratry positions offered by the teacher.

But apparently he didn't even get that, because he says he's going to keep doing the same thing:

Speaking after a meeting with administrators Friday, Bennish said that he was “excited to be back in the classroom� and that he would continue to use his job as a way to “encourage democratic values in our society� and to “promote social justice, just as I have always attempted to do.�

“I continue trying to improve myself as a teacher,� he said, adding he would still seek to make his students “think critically.�

All codewords for continuing to spout off Marxist rants.

Again, he's not teaching kids to "think critically." That would mean thinking critically about both conventional wisdom and capitalism and American values and such, as well as Jay Bennish's preferred Marxist transnational progressive value system. He only encourages "thinking critically" about the former.

So he has not been told to stop it.

Bizzyblog has some great updates/related bits, including a parallel case in Miami, and a schoolgirl who has to sue a school to wear red, white, and blue bead-necklaces to show support for her family members in uniform.

Certain viewpoints, it seems, are simply unnacceptable in the schoolhouse.

But not Jay Bennish's.

posted by Ace at 05:36 PM

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