Why Teachers Lean to the Left

Dear Readers,

Have you ever wondered why so many teachers are liberal? And I’m not only talking about college professors, but I’m also talking about K-12 teachers. What is it about the teaching profession that turns people into leftists? Or maybe the question should be, what is it about the teaching profession that attracts leftists?

Well, I have a little bit of experience teaching and being taught, and now I have some ideas about how to answer those questions.

Let me preface, though, that so many teachers have hearts of gold. They're really swell people. Most of them just want to make the world a better place, like Adolf Hitler did. Ha ha ha.

Seriously, I have a great respect for the job that teachers do. It’s a hard job.

Without further ado, here's my list of explanations to the questions I started out with:

16 Reasons Why Teachers are Liberal

1] Most teachers are members of a public workers union. Unions had a place back in the day, and a lot of unions still do good jobs, but these days a lot of unions mess stuff up. The salary and pensions of Boston police officers, for example, are much too high. And who knows, maybe if it weren’t for the United Auto Workers demanding too much pay and perks for their workers, GM and the other automobile companies would have kept doing good business. Then maybe George W. Bush and his associates wouldn’t have bailed out Detroit back in 2008.

For more on the thuggish way the UAW does business, read this article.

Anyway, I know that not all unions are as corrupt as the UAW, but I think it’s safe to say that more union stuff = more communist stuff.

2] Teachers get paid by the government. So it makes sense that teachers typically support higher taxes and bigger government.

3] Teachers think that they know what’s best for people. Teachers only wish that they could clone themselves, and be every student’s parent. Liberals in the government feel the same way. Listen to the arguments in favor of Universal Pre-School and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Liberals and teachers would prefer that trained professionals from the government would raise the nation’s children.

Teachers think they know how to raise kids better than parents do. I was in a few parent teacher conferences, and a few IEP (individual education plans) meetings, and sometimes in thsoe meetings I could just feel the condescending attitude coming from some of the teachers and administrators in the room.

In one of the IEP meetings, I remember a boy's father, a grown man- he was a soldier- and this salt-of-the-earth man was scared to talk to all of us professional-looking teachers and administrators. He kept his head lowered. He kept his arms folded.

This man had triumphed on the battlefield. He had backed up eighteen-wheelers to a thousand truck docks, he had built a house from start to finish, and yet in this meeting he acted like a little boy who was in trouble.

Instead of putting him at ease, all the teachers remained professional. I wanted to reach out to him, and talk with him like an honest man talks to another honest man. But I was a new teacher, and I remained silent. The teachers, the special education coordinator, and the school psychologist were all there, gathered around the table. They were all there to tell that great American father that his son was stupid, and that his son needed remedial classes made especially for stupid kids.

4] For almost 8 hours a day, for every day of the school year, teachers and the school environment provide recreation, education, meals, health care, security, pseudo-moral instruction, and pseudo-love to the students. Thus, the teachers gradually come to view themselves as benevolent providers. They gradually come to view themselves as indispensable. Teachers may even view the parents, especially the “bad” parents, as roadblocks to children’s education. Teachers seem to think that if only the school day and the school year could be lengthened, then the students would be better off.

5] Teachers, like liberals, are prideful. I don’t blame teachers for becoming prideful. Most people would become prideful if they had a captive audience who was forced into submission all the time. And most people would soon become prideful if they were always the ones with the right answer.

6] Teachers never talk about religion.

7] Teachers are never politically incorrect.

8] Teachers have bleeding hearts.

9] Teachers dress up and go to conferences, and rub elbows with other teachers. And at these conferences, they all tell each other how great they all are. They all remind each other how great it is to be a teacher, and how much good they are doing for the world, and how the world would just fall apart if it weren’t for teachers.

10] Public school teachers, for some reason, want their students to attend public K-12 schools, and public Universities, and then they want their students to get a job in the public sector. Teachers interact frequently with firefighters and cops, who are also great people, for the most part. But let it not be forgotten that teachers, firefighters and cops are all beholden to the government.

11] Teachers get in the newspaper all the time. Have you ever noticed that every time a kid gets a ribbon for being a good student, they get a write-up in the local paper? What’s up with that? Aren’t there more important things going on than little Johnny’s science project? And I think it’s pretty clear that more positive newspaper exposure leads to more liberalism. Think about it. Liberals also get in the paper all the time. The liberal reporters write about how great their liberal friends are.

12] Teachers are bombarded with environmental propaganda. They breathe in environmental propaganda, and they breathe out environmental propaganda.

13] Teachers are bombarded with multiculturalism. They breathe in the multiculturalism surrounding them, and they breathe out multiculturalism.

14] Teachers really believe in peaceful resolution. They always discourage fistfights. All that peaceful resolution talk seeps into their brains, until they think that war is never the answer, and that the world’s problems can be solved by education, and namby-pamby self-esteem boosting activities.

15] Teachers, or at least public school administrators, know that they receive more funding if they have more students on the free of reduced lunch program. So they do the best they can to sign kids up for that. Also, they receive more funding if they have more students, regardless of their citizenship status. So, teachers generally favor open borders. Read this article about the Ajo Unified School District’s nifty way of making a few more bucks- they bussed in kids from Mexico everyday.

16] Teachers go to liberal Universities and take lots of liberal classes in liberal colleges of education from liberal college professors.

Well, I can’t think of any other reasons. Can you come up with any other explanations as to why teachers are typically liberal?

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa