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Why should students have to pay to take a class, only to find out that the professor is an ideologue who, PS, grades based on how well you subscribe to his political agenda? And why should you have to change schools until you finally find instructors who aren't zealots? That's ridiculous. Most young people can't afford to just change schools every semester.
Teachers and professors should teach their subject, not use their class like a bully pulpit to spout their nonsense. That goes for right AND left. Unless the school specifies that it takes an ideologically biased approach, they should be neutral. It's completely unfair and unAmerican that they have a hammer hold on our young people who are just trying to get some higher education.
My guess is that you didn't go to college if you think of it as an indoctrination mill. Sure, you send a Redneck to Berkeley and he is going to get an earful of stuff he didn't hear growing up, but the same could be said for sending a Valley Girl going to Texas A&M.
Pick a school that aligns with your values, and you won't have a problem. Or just avoid the overtly political schools.
That said, I went to a "liberal" college in California, and I can think of only one course that had any cultural/political bias whatsoever. And that was a general ed. course called "perspectives on gender" (basically men are the devil). I chose that course because it was the only one that fit my schedule and met the capstone requirement, and I knew going in what to expect. I got an A and I can honestly say I don't remember a thing I "learned" in that class and it has had zero impact on my perspective or my life.
The thing is, unlike gradeschool you get to choose your own path in college. You can be studious and spend your time in class/library, or you can ditch class and go to rally's and parties all day. And if you're afraid your child will choose the later, then maybe the issue isn't the school but how you raised 'em.
My first English Comp prof was a raging hardcore narrow minded leftist who used a lot of our class time spewing his nonsense, which is why I dropped his class.
My Sociology prof was the same. After that experience I decided I didn't really need a degree after all, since all I was doing was paying to listen to some leftwing nut blather for two hours.
So Hodr can say students choose their own path, but you typically don't realize an instructor is a political zealot until you're actually in the class. And you have to take the class to get the required credits. The English guy went so far as to give you a crappy grade if you didn't toe the leftist line in your papers. And don't get me started on the textbooks; they are blatantly biased left.
My algebra and statistics classes were ideology free.
Well as you mentioned, your math courses were ideology free. As I was a STEM major, the majority of my classes were likely similar to your algebra and statistics classes. Only so many ways you can teach 1 + 1.
Perhaps if I was a sociology major I would have had a different experience. That said, the fact that you both recognized the bias and chose a different path I think reinforces my argument that the school didn't indoctrinate you. Unless you think that eventually they would have worn you down if you stuck with it. I suspect if you decided you still wanted the degree you would have put up with / ignored the BS or would have switched to a different school.
I was not indoctrinated, however I was also in my late 40s, early 50s. I was pretty solid on where I stood with things and not inclined to hero worship my professors . The youngsters in my classes, not so much.
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Why should students have to pay to take a class, only to find out that the professor is an ideologue who, PS, grades based on how well you subscribe to his political agenda? And why should you have to change schools until you finally find instructors who aren't zealots? That's ridiculous. Most young people can't afford to just change schools every semester.
Teachers and professors should teach their subject, not use their class like a bully pulpit to spout their nonsense. That goes for right AND left. Unless the school specifies that it takes an ideologically biased approach, they should be neutral. It's completely unfair and unAmerican that they have a hammer hold on our young people who are just trying to get some higher education.