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The liberal priesthood: spare the rod, spoil the teacher, by Ann Coulter.
The only group in society that must be spoken of in reverential terms at all times, no matter what, is public school teachers. Attack the Boy Scouts, boycott Mel Gibson, put Christ in a jar of urine--but don't dare say anything bad about teachers. Unless you want it noted on your permanent record...We are simultaneously supposed to gasp in awe at teachers' raw dedication and be forced to listen to their incessant caterwauling about how they don't make enough money. Well, which is it? Are they dedicated to teaching or are they in it for the money? After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks, aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. As portrayed in the national pulpit of Hollywood, leaders of God-based religions are invariably lying scum. Not since Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953) has Hollywood conceived of a priest or minister who was not a Nazi sympathizer, sexual predator, or some other breed of moral viper. Priests and ministers are smarmy, humorless hypocrites in movies like The People vs Larry Flynt (but the pornographer comes off favorably!), Judgment (child-molesting priest), and The Runner Stumbles (Dick Van Dyke as a hypocritical priest who impregnates a nun). In Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg is a Reno lounge singer on the lam who shakes up the stogy convent with her fun, upbeat attitude. The late, briefly aired, and little-missed TV show The Book of Daniel was about a drug-dealing daughter, one gay son, and another son who was having sex with his sister-in-law. In other words, it was a typical Hollywood family drama.
By contrast, the moment a teacher walks onto the screen, you know who the hero is going to be. Teachers are Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, Michelle Pheiffer in Dangerous Minds, Jon Voight in Conrack, Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus, Kevin Kline in the Emperor's Club, Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me, and Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile. Among the Teacher-as-Saint movies are Goodbye Mr. Chips (three versions); The Blackboard Jungle; Stand and deliver; and on and on and on. There are only two possible plots in movies about teachers: either inspirational teachers bring their passion and dedication to inner-city schools or inspirational teachers bring their passion and dedication to bored suburban kids.
In real life, these taxpayer-supported parasites are inculcating students in the precepts of the SDocialist Party of America--as understood by retarted people. In early 2006, Sean Allen, a student at Overland High School in Colorado, taped his tenth-grade "world geography" teacher Jay Bennish ranting incoherently about Bush for twenty minutes during class. After a brief detour during which Bennish condemned the capitalist system, he proceeded briskly to his main point...George W. Bush is like Hitler!
Although surely smarter than Bennish, not all American teenagers are bright enough to withstand the constant propaganda from authjority figures who are grading them. Part of Bennish's Socratic dialogue that day included this exchange:
Bennish: Who is probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth?! [sic]
Unidentified student apple-polisher: We are!
Bennish: The United States of America!
The only group in society that must be spoken of in reverential terms at all times, no matter what, is public school teachers. Attack the Boy Scouts, boycott Mel Gibson, put Christ in a jar of urine--but don't dare say anything bad about teachers. Unless you want it noted on your permanent record...We are simultaneously supposed to gasp in awe at teachers' raw dedication and be forced to listen to their incessant caterwauling about how they don't make enough money. Well, which is it? Are they dedicated to teaching or are they in it for the money? After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks, aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. As portrayed in the national pulpit of Hollywood, leaders of God-based religions are invariably lying scum. Not since Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953) has Hollywood conceived of a priest or minister who was not a Nazi sympathizer, sexual predator, or some other breed of moral viper. Priests and ministers are smarmy, humorless hypocrites in movies like The People vs Larry Flynt (but the pornographer comes off favorably!), Judgment (child-molesting priest), and The Runner Stumbles (Dick Van Dyke as a hypocritical priest who impregnates a nun). In Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg is a Reno lounge singer on the lam who shakes up the stogy convent with her fun, upbeat attitude. The late, briefly aired, and little-missed TV show The Book of Daniel was about a drug-dealing daughter, one gay son, and another son who was having sex with his sister-in-law. In other words, it was a typical Hollywood family drama.
By contrast, the moment a teacher walks onto the screen, you know who the hero is going to be. Teachers are Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, Michelle Pheiffer in Dangerous Minds, Jon Voight in Conrack, Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus, Kevin Kline in the Emperor's Club, Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me, and Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile. Among the Teacher-as-Saint movies are Goodbye Mr. Chips (three versions); The Blackboard Jungle; Stand and deliver; and on and on and on. There are only two possible plots in movies about teachers: either inspirational teachers bring their passion and dedication to inner-city schools or inspirational teachers bring their passion and dedication to bored suburban kids.
In real life, these taxpayer-supported parasites are inculcating students in the precepts of the SDocialist Party of America--as understood by retarted people. In early 2006, Sean Allen, a student at Overland High School in Colorado, taped his tenth-grade "world geography" teacher Jay Bennish ranting incoherently about Bush for twenty minutes during class. After a brief detour during which Bennish condemned the capitalist system, he proceeded briskly to his main point...George W. Bush is like Hitler!
Although surely smarter than Bennish, not all American teenagers are bright enough to withstand the constant propaganda from authjority figures who are grading them. Part of Bennish's Socratic dialogue that day included this exchange:
Bennish: Who is probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth?! [sic]
Unidentified student apple-polisher: We are!
Bennish: The United States of America!