There is a high school teacher in Colorado that is in a lot of hot water. Why? Is he espousing some left wing lunacy? Some would argue that. But in truth his rhetoric is not left wing or right wing, just anti-American. Jay Bennish, a GEOGRAPHY teacher at Overland High School has decided that all subjects are political, even when there is no politics in them. And so instead of teaching his assigned course, he has decided to jump into a diatribe about how EVIL America is.
Forget the fact that most of his statements are just plain wrong. Forget the fact that he takes the Michael Moore tack of the 6 degrees of separation and stretches them. In many cases, he is just plain wrong. (the CIA and FBI - or did he merely correct himself by changing the agency). The World Trade Centers were never a military target. It was strictly civilian. And his rant about Cuba is fanciful at best, an outright lie at worst.
And for denying his students their education for his political agenda, he has been suspended. Not fired, Suspended. And that has gotten his panties in a bunch.
Well, I am sorry that he feels persecuted. I am sorry that he feels his First Amendment rights were infringed. This is not about first amendment rights. This is about competency of a teacher. Something sadly lacking in many schools in America. Neither man, nor the United States of America created geography. And indeed, man has not affected a lot of change to it either. No mountain ranges have been created or destroyed by man. The seas are still there as are the lakes and rivers (although we can affect the course of some rivers, that hardly qualifies as political).
So his argument is weak, as is his hate filled rhetoric. Perhaps if he was doing his job, and spouting his nonsense on talk radio, he would not be in trouble. He just forgot what his job was all about.
It is too bad for his students. Not that he cannot spout his stupidity to them, but that they are being cheated out of their education. An education the deserve, but he is denying them.