Student Says Teacher Scolded Him for Viewing FOXNews.com

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A Michigan high school is investigating allegations that one of its teachers berated and belittled a student for taking part in what the teacher considered an unacceptable activity: reading FOXNews.com.

A young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh's radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the "wrong" news.

The teacher of his video production class saw what he was looking at and "proceeded to give me a 10-minute lecture on why I can't read FOX News ... and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues," the student said.

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[xsited1]

Indoctrination at Public Schools? I'm shocked!!!

 

[ItsFairmont]

The article failed to mention that the kid probably picks his nose and eats it.

Most Fox viewers do.

 

[random3434]

A Michigan high school is investigating allegations that one of its teachers berated and belittled a student for taking part in what the teacher considered an unacceptable activity: reading FOXNews.com.

A young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh's radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the "wrong" news.

The teacher of his video production class saw what he was looking at and "proceeded to give me a 10-minute lecture on why I can't read FOX News ... and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues," the student said.

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James Feil, superintendent of Traverse City Area Public Schools, told FOXNews.com that any attempts to pressure students politically would go against his schools' policies.

"It would be inappropriate. I would clearly tell you that is not something that we would do anything to indoctrinate students here," he said. "That would clearly be a violation of our policies and guidelines, written or non-written."

So this is about a TEACHER, not a public school. The teacher was wrong, IF it's true, to do this.

He will be punished in the appropriate manner by the school system IF it's true. As he should be.

 

[Kalam]

 

[auditor0007]

The article failed to mention that the kid probably picks his nose and eats it.

Most Fox viewers do.

Tool.

 

[auditor0007]

If the teacher had told him he can only watch Fox News, then you would be screaming bloody murder. Hypocrite.

 

[AVG-JOE]

See?

THAT'S the difference how kids are being raised these days! The schools are coddling them!

When I was a kid, my teacher SPANKED me for wasting my time watching cartoons.

-Joe

 

[WillowTree]

I cannot understand how lefty's can declare they are for freedom and then set out to persecute anyone and anything they do not like.. maybe it's cause what they pick and eat is not from their nose..but their actions don't speak of freedom do they? if the teacher did this it speaks of dictatorship,, that's why the left is down to bowing, kissing and hugging the dictators of the world.. and why they won't harm a terrorist. hummmmm?

 

[LaLinda75]

When teachers are telling their students which news media to watch or not to watch, that means only one thing. We are not heading towards socialism - we are ALREADY there.

 

[LaLinda75]

HUGO CHAVEZ WILL BE PROUD! After doing the same in Venezuela, allowing people in authority to dictate to people what to do and not do, he then proceeded to take over the TV and radio stations.

 

[Seraega]

Well we've heard one side of the story. I wonder what the teacher's account would sound like. I'd expect that the discussion was more along the lines of considering a variety of sources... I know that's tough for wingers to understand. They think that Fox and Rush ARE a variety.

Suggesting that the student listen to the BBC, CNN, NPR... in addition to Fox to get a few different perspectives on an issue is perfectly reasonable and fits well within any academic model for research and learning.

 

[Amanda]

Well we've heard one side of the story. I wonder what the teacher's account would sound like. I'd expect that the discussion was more along the lines of considering a variety of sources... I know that's tough for wingers to understand. They think that Fox and Rush ARE a variety.

Suggesting that the student listen to the BBC, CNN, NPR... in addition to Fox to get a few different perspectives on an issue is perfectly reasonable and fits well within any academic model for research and learning.

It would be interesting to hear the teachers side, but I think what many are reacting to is that we don't believe there would have been any issue if the student had been looking at BBC, CNN, NPR, etc.

Who knows what was going on at the time. Were all the students looking at news sources, or just this 1? If it turns out everyone was doing research and only this student was singled out for the lecture I'm sure reasonable people can agree that the lecture was either unwarranted or should have been directed at the whole class.

 

[auditor0007]

Well we've heard one side of the story. I wonder what the teacher's account would sound like. I'd expect that the discussion was more along the lines of considering a variety of sources... I know that's tough for wingers to understand. They think that Fox and Rush ARE a variety.

Suggesting that the student listen to the BBC, CNN, NPR... in addition to Fox to get a few different perspectives on an issue is perfectly reasonable and fits well within any academic model for research and learning.

It is possible that this student fudged on his claim. However, with some of the stupid shit my kid's teachers have been telling them, this would not surprise me one bit.

 

[Seraega]

Well we've heard one side of the story. I wonder what the teacher's account would sound like. I'd expect that the discussion was more along the lines of considering a variety of sources... I know that's tough for wingers to understand. They think that Fox and Rush ARE a variety.

Suggesting that the student listen to the BBC, CNN, NPR... in addition to Fox to get a few different perspectives on an issue is perfectly reasonable and fits well within any academic model for research and learning.

It would be interesting to hear the teachers side, but I think what many are reacting to is that we don't believe there would have been any issue if the student had been looking at BBC, CNN, NPR, etc.

Who knows what was going on at the time. Were all the students looking at news sources, or just this 1? If it turns out everyone was doing research and only this student was singled out for the lecture I'm sure reasonable people can agree that the lecture was either unwarranted or should have been directed at the whole class.

I'm not going to disagree. Had the student been looking at a less partisan source it may not have been an issue, but I believe that we just don't know enough. Without hearing the other side it's difficult to take a position.

 

[random3434]

Well we've heard one side of the story. I wonder what the teacher's account would sound like. I'd expect that the discussion was more along the lines of considering a variety of sources... I know that's tough for wingers to understand. They think that Fox and Rush ARE a variety.

Suggesting that the student listen to the BBC, CNN, NPR... in addition to Fox to get a few different perspectives on an issue is perfectly reasonable and fits well within any academic model for research and learning.

It would be interesting to hear the teachers side, but I think what many are reacting to is that we don't believe there would have been any issue if the student had been looking at BBC, CNN, NPR, etc.

Who knows what was going on at the time. Were all the students looking at news sources, or just this 1? If it turns out everyone was doing research and only this student was singled out for the lecture I'm sure reasonable people can agree that the lecture was either unwarranted or should have been directed at the whole class.

I'm not going to disagree. Had the student been looking at a less partisan source it may not have been an issue, but I believe that we just don't know enough. Without hearing the other side it's difficult to take a position.

That was my entire point too. IF the teacher did this, they should be punished in the appropriate manner for having a political bias in the classroom.

My daughter's 8th grade social studies teacher tells his students the only REAL news is on Fox, that all the others are just left wing propaganda.

Now should he get in trouble for doing this?

 

[Amanda]

It would be interesting to hear the teachers side, but I think what many are reacting to is that we don't believe there would have been any issue if the student had been looking at BBC, CNN, NPR, etc.

Who knows what was going on at the time. Were all the students looking at news sources, or just this 1? If it turns out everyone was doing research and only this student was singled out for the lecture I'm sure reasonable people can agree that the lecture was either unwarranted or should have been directed at the whole class.

I'm not going to disagree. Had the student been looking at a less partisan source it may not have been an issue, but I believe that we just don't know enough. Without hearing the other side it's difficult to take a position.

That was my entire point too. IF the teacher did this, they should be punished in the appropriate manner for having a political bias in the classroom.

My daughter's 8th grade social studies teacher tells his students the only REAL news is on Fox, that all the others are just left wing propaganda.

Now should he get in trouble for doing this?

Of course. Like religion, or sexuality, or any number of other topics, it's not the place of schools to instill "correct thought" or values to students. That's the job of parents.

 

[auditor0007]

Well we've heard one side of the story. I wonder what the teacher's account would sound like. I'd expect that the discussion was more along the lines of considering a variety of sources... I know that's tough for wingers to understand. They think that Fox and Rush ARE a variety.

Suggesting that the student listen to the BBC, CNN, NPR... in addition to Fox to get a few different perspectives on an issue is perfectly reasonable and fits well within any academic model for research and learning.

It would be interesting to hear the teachers side, but I think what many are reacting to is that we don't believe there would have been any issue if the student had been looking at BBC, CNN, NPR, etc.

Who knows what was going on at the time. Were all the students looking at news sources, or just this 1? If it turns out everyone was doing research and only this student was singled out for the lecture I'm sure reasonable people can agree that the lecture was either unwarranted or should have been directed at the whole class.

I'm not going to disagree. Had the student been looking at a less partisan source it may not have been an issue, but I believe that we just don't know enough. Without hearing the other side it's difficult to take a position.

Partisan source? The MSM is left leaning, plain and simple, so please don't tell us about partisan sources. There is nothing wrong with getting information from different sources, but please don't try to claim that Fox is partisan and the rest is neutral. Unfortunately, we don't have any neutral news sources in this country currently. Fox is biased to the right, and the rest are biased to the left.

 

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A Michigan high school is investigating allegations that one of its teachers berated and belittled a student for taking part in what the teacher considered an unacceptable activity: reading FOXNews.com.

A young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh's radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the "wrong" news.

The teacher of his video production class saw what he was looking at and "proceeded to give me a 10-minute lecture on why I can't read FOX News ... and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues," the student said.

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According to the story he was yelled at for reading the 'wrong' news. Why, because it was Fox? Would the teacher have done and said the same thing if it had been MSNBC? She told him he can only listen to BBC and other news venues. What qualifies a news source as being 'the wrong news'? In her eyes, news from the right is 'wrong' news.

This isn't about Fox it's about the teacher imposing her political views onto the student and about her yelling at him about reading the 'wrong' news in front of the class. The rest of the story talks about the school's strict policy against bullying, which is indicating that the teacher may have been bullying the student by her actions.

 

[Kalam]

If the teacher had told him he can only watch Fox News, then you would be screaming bloody murder. Hypocrite.

Actually, my response would be the same. I don't give a damn what a single teacher said. When I was younger, I had a teacher tell me something similar when I mentioned the findings of some Gallup poll. Another told the class quite directly that "liberals are morons." Yet another called those who supported Bush in the 2004 election "un-American." I've seen bullshit like this from both sides of the aisle. An individual teacher expressing some sort of political bias isn't a big deal.

You had no idea what I would do if the situation were different. Fuck you, dude.