by Linda Sunkle-Pierucki

Created on: April 27, 2009   Last Updated: April 30, 2009

There's a fight brewing in the education field-with a well-rounded education in one corner and a political indoctrination in the other. Calling the problem teacher bias is taking the easy way out. For, in many cases, teachers don't even know they're promoting a biased viewpoint and most don't feel they have a right to demand a teaching environment untainted by political and social engineering. Parents send their precious young child off to kindergarten or even preschool with every expectation that the experience will support and build upon the principles they as parents espouse. At the very least, they expect that their child not become a pawn in a game of social control. And they fully expect them to learn to navigate such skills as reading, writing and basic mathematics. In today's educational climate, that occurrence has become a rarity.

College students beginning in the education field have a belief that they are going to become skilled in molding young minds to learn and to contribute to society. In very many college situations, it doesn't take long before they encounter professors who espouse a particular point of view-often very different than the viewpoints they grew up with. They quickly find that many of their courses, especially those dealing with the aspects of teaching they are looking forward to learning come with a price much higher than the tuition they or their parents are paying. They find, because of professor bias, that they must espouse a liberal viewpoint or be penalized in terms of grades, respect and acceptance. Regardless of their family backgrounds, religious beliefs or personal convictions, they are expected to swallow a far-left social and political viewpoint to survive. Because they are paying a supposedly older and wiser professional to guide them, those with less firmly-established personal convictions are quickly molded into the new mindset. Because these young students lack life experiences to draw upon, they tend to accept the new views whole-heartedly, much to the chagrin of the parent paying the bills.

Older students or those with a stronger sense of self-determination may not fall into the trap quite as easily. For their stubbornness, they are rewarded with low or failing grades, ridicule and ostracism. They may well be counseled out of the field as being "unsuitable" for teaching.

At some of the supposedly best-and certainly most expensive teaching universities, seemingly unrelated courses such as psychology, American History,

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