Student Docked Points On School Assignment For Refusing To Bash Trump
Miss CJ
February 26, 2017 01:42pm
I don’t know what kind of teacher thinks that an assignment like this is okay.
According to this, a teacher in Annadale, New York, gave her students a vocabulary worksheet as a homework assignment. One of the students asked her dad, Vincent Ungro, for help. And Mr. Ungro was not terribly pleased with the fill-in-the-blank questions posed to his 11-year-old daughter –
“President Trump speaks in a very superior and _________ manner insulting many people. He needs to be more __________ so that the American people respect and admire him,” read one homework sentence.
The next question was: “Barack Obama set a _________ when he became the first African-American president.”
And what were the choices for the two questions, you ask? These three words: “haughty,” “humble,” and “precedent.” You can guess which ones were meant to be the “correct” answers in this teacher’s mind.
Rather than fill in those questions, Ungro told his daughter not to finish the assignment. Instead, he wrote a note at the bottom of the worksheet to the teacher –
“Please keep your political views to yourself and do not try to influence my children on them. Thank you,” he wrote.
Here’s what that part of the worksheet looked like –
And the teacher – rather than try to speak to Ungro and his daughter about the assignment – simply docked the student 15 points on the assignment. Which Ungro says seemed “vindictive” against his viewpoint as a parent.
Oh, and the teacher defended the way she worded the questions, saying that it was simply a commentary on President Trump’s personality and that the media describes him in similar ways (yeah… I can guess which media outlets this teacher’s been listening to).
This is beyond infuriating for several reasons. First of all, imagine if a teacher wrote a question that was insulting to Barack Obama (OH, THE TRIGGERING!) Second of all, why are you pushing a certain political viewpoint onto freaking ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD KIDS? IN their homework assignments. That they HAVE to complete or risk getting a bad grade. That just smacks of brainwashing, quite honestly. Which is not cool, no matter your political viewpoints.
There is some good news. The sourcelink mentions that the principal did take Mr. Ungro’s concerns to the teacher and she did get a disciplinary letter that went into her permanent file. So, not everyone at that school has lost their mind.
Stick to teaching the basics, lady. And maybe try not angering your students’ parents for a change?
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