Should teachers be campaigning for Obama in their classrooms? ?

Absolutely not. Teachers should not be imposing their views on children. Why should they? For one, children are too young to vote. Secondly, the classroom is not the place to discuss who you support. Just like pastor's should not tell their church members who to vote for, teachers need to stick to the curriculum. Now if they want to discuss the election they can do so, but they should leave their opinions and who they support out of it. Also, what are they teaching children when they force their views on them? They are sending a bad message to children that it is ok to impose your own view on others without letting them decide for themselves.

Schools are not a place for politics and not a place for staff to wear political buttons. I haven't read if this was being done in grade schools (K-12), but political view are always expressed by some liberal professors in higher education schools. It really makes you wonder and a bit apprehensive when we send our children to schools for an education. I don't want a school or school staff advocating for any political position or candidate to students . Bobbi- Good call ! Ayers and Dohrn were members of the five-member central committee of the Weathermen in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, some alumni of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where Ayers is a tenured professor of education, and Northwestern University, where Dohrn is a law professor, have protested their presence. Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American radical left organization founded in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (or claimed to be the actual SDS). The Weatherman group had long held that militancy was becoming more important than nonviolent forms of anti-war action, and that university-campus-based demonstrations needed to be punctuated with more dramatic actions, which had the potential to interfere with the U.S. military and internal security apparatus. The belief was that these types of urban guerrilla actions would act as a catalyst for the coming revolution. "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows." , a document outlined the position of the group that would become the Weathermen. It had been signed by 11 people, including Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, BILL AYERS, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Karen Ashley, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, and Steve Tappis. And people don't think much of Obama being associated with this guy? Also his former pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright.......20 YEARS !

I think that current politics should defiantly be left out of the classroom. I am having a problem with this right now as we speak. My 12 year old daughter was bringing politics into the school and now all of her old friends want to beat her up saying she is a racist which is by no means true cause she has mixed race in her family. I tried to tell her that she should not do this at school. I seen it coming so in response to your question. I would say that campaigning should be left to the family structure and not the education structure. Besides why are teachers campaigning to school age children that can't even vote. I am a student in college and my teachers are smart enough not to polotic to there students. It is a very volitile subject.

A teacher has the duty to teach independent / critical, thinking. Their personal views should not influence the minds of their students, but lay down the foundation, where the student can draw their own informed, knowledgeable, comprehensive conclusion. In the case of political views there is no right or wrong, there in the United States.

NO. They should NOT. Keep politics neutral in the schools. One of my family members goes to a middle school, where the kids have been encouraged to support Obama by wearing blue, and the teacher in one of the classes always wears blue, or an Obama shirt, or an Obama/Biden 08 pin every day. This is indoctrination, and I am completely against that, no matter which candidate a school, or a teacher, favors.

The kiddo in my family says she went to school one day wearing a blue shirt--a dark blue shirt, that had McCain written on it, and she caught a lot of flak from the students and her teacher. She told me that she doesn't care about politics at all, but that she wore her dad's tee shirt just to be different. She doesn't like how they are forcing that stuff down her throat.

Absolutly not.

Religion is to be taught in church and at home.

Political campaigning is to be carried out by politicans.

Teachers are to teach and be overseen by the Board of Education.

Any teacher who wants to campaign for anyone for any reason must do it on their own time, located anywhere off school property.

Obey the laws and ordinances of the state, city, county and the Board of Education and the answer is simple. No.

Absolutely not. This NYC case is ridiculous. If the teachers win, that will be a big blow to education. A huge majority of teachers are Democrats, so the students already get an incredibly slanted view. I am a Republican and when I used to teach in the public schools, I never advocated any candidate. However, my Democratic counterparts frequently stated their opinion as fact.

No, I don't think they should be voicing their opinions at all. However, I think they should tell about each candidate and teach on the subject in general in a neutral manner.

The exception this year - way to much mudslinging and way to many lies and hidden facts, missing facts, misleading facts, misleading information. This is the worst Presidential Campaign, by BOTH, that I have ever seen.

No,they shouldn't but neither should teachers be bashing him either and calling him the N. word. This happen in a small southern Florida city. This ignorant teach actually wrote this on a chalk board with eleven blacks, fourteen whites and one Asian. He got suspended with pay and then got transferred to another department. Now, how fair is that! He should have left his hatred outside the door!

Well, It's no surprise considering the teachers union is aligned with the Democrats.

Edit: Wow, two thumbs down for citing a fact. What is the world coming to.