Is there a liberal or left-wing bias in education?

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HelloThereAwesome · Accepted Answer

I will first mention that I am NOT a Trump supporter (and consider myself fairly liberal), I know that many will make assumptions on my answers.
but that being said

Having worked in the Public School system, I can answer this question with a resounding YES!!! I could literally rant about this all day, but I will give only a few examples.
1. The teacher work days where staff members (especially White) were taught acceptance of minorities... ultimately demeaning to white staff members.. making it appear like they were subhuman and incapable of controlling their inner hatred/racism... very ironically racist.
2. The difficulty of giving disciplinary actions (especially to non white students) <- the White Staff was even targeted for giving a disproportionate amount of detentions to black students (in a mostly black school) by the principal. I understand the need to speak on racial issues... but turning Whites into a monolith isn't much better than targetting blacks for the same issue? YET if it was to target whites.. its acceptable.. and it created some tensions within the school.
3. Passing on student with almost no merit at all. I had personally witnessed students who would never accomplish anything in the classroom... be graduated forward? Usually social services were provided to these students as a detriment.. and it made it difficult for them to achieve anything (expectations that staff write all answers for them... or that for an 8th grader writing 1 sentence was good enough for an A.. at least they were doing something right?).. OR the ability of the students to use the social services to avoid any sort of accountability... something that we apparently don't teach anymore? YET expect students to understand?
4. the Education itself is often based upon a liberal perspective... in terms of history/politics/economics.. it tended preach more of an anti-white.. anti-american.. anti-capitalism.. ideology. ...
5. It tended to be acceptable to target conservatives.. or republicans.. or Trump supporters (be it staff or student body) while more liberal perspectives (even if technically based in hate) were very well protected.

really the list is endless
and I was quite appalled by how far people were willing to take it
HONESTLY. in my years working there.. I felt as though I was accomplishing nothing.. and that the educational system was more interested in $$$ (because success is not artificial... it means nothing in schools.. but they need to find some statistical way of recording it... even if its a failed standard) and pushing a narrative than it was on actually preparing students for the future.

abc3643 · Accepted Answer

Oh, course there is - but it's not exactly bias.
That's because Nature and truth itself has what conservatives would call "a liberal bias".

That's the REASON why the scientific community is predominantly liberal.

Here's a 2009 HuffPo article reporting a Pew Research Center study.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382
Here's the actual study.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/
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Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll
A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree.
Only six percent of America’s scientists identify themselves as Republicans; fifty-five percent call themselves Democrats. By comparison, 23 percent of the overall public considers itself Republican, while 35 percent say they’re Democrats.
The ideological discrepancies were similar. Nine percent of scientists said they were “conservative” while 52 percent described themselves as “liberal,” and 14 percent “very liberal.” The corresponding figures for the general public were 37, 20 and 5 percent.

Among the general public, moderates and independents ranked higher than any party or ideology. But among scientists, there were considerably more Democrats (55%) than independents (32%) and Republicans (6%) put together. There were also more liberals (52%) than moderates (35%) and conservatives (9%) combined.
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From the study itself:

The scientists’ belief that the scientific community is politically liberal is largely accurate. Slightly more than half of scientists (52%) describe their own political views as liberal, including 14% who describe themselves as very liberal. Among the general public, 20% describe themselves as liberal, with just 5% calling themselves very liberal.

Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and just 6% say they are Republicans. When the leanings of independents are considered, fully 81% identify as Democrats or lean to the Democratic Party, compared with 12% who either identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP. Among the public, there are far fewer self-described Democrats (35%) and far more Republicans (23%). Overall, 52% of the public identifies as Democratic or leans Democratic, while 35% identifies as Republican or leans Republican.

ClassyMe · Accepted Answer

Yes absolutely! I am a college student and have witnessed it first hand. I have seen students get failed, withdrawn, professors protesting on weekends. Academic bias (they give extensions on homework or extra credit if you’re a member of antifa). I had a professor who didn’t teach us the class subject but rather made us watch bias, ignorant, and sexist buzzfeed videos. I have witness a student ripping an organizations sign and was eating it in their faces. I have also witness bias in the sense of if you have a different opinion then they try and get you removed. That’s just the best part! You don’t want to know what I see on a daily basis at school.

scarlett774 · Accepted Answer

Ok so depending on what state you live in there might be a bias that the teacher has - but like I’ve said many times it is illegal for k-12 teachers to talk about politics and who they support/votes for. As for what is taught and the curriculum in the classroom absolutely not, you can pick any state and any subject and go to the curriculum and you will not find any political bias. I’m grade school politics is not taught. The only time I was ever taught politics in school was in my 7th grade civics class where they taught us about how the government works.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Absolutely, and that is why we should defund public education!

BeMuse · Answer

Not in content... In public school the content is pretty apolitical unless it is a political science course. That said personal views would be reflective of the demographics that do the job. Women are more often school teachers than men 76% to 24% respectively. Women are also more likely to be a Democrat than a Republican 56% to 37% respectively. Men are more likely to be Republican than Democrat 48% to 44% respectively. So if you apply those statistics across the staff of public schools you’ll get 53.12% Democrats, 39.64% Republicans, and 7.24% other. Thus the demographics will give more of a voice to Democrats than Republicans when speaking off topic to students. I suppose the only way to influence that is to restrict the sharing of political views as a professional standard or to increase quotas for male teachers and offer higher salaries to recruit talent. All the material though is pretty standardized. There are education targets you have to hit and everyone pretty much uses similar sets of books.

In college more professors are men. Maybe 55% or so… Content would reflect the course description. So if you’re taking organic chemistry you will likely never hear anything political, but if you take something post keynesian economics or feminist theory it is probably hard core leftist. You get what you pay for...

AlexanderAnttila · Answer

A massive one, and it spans internationally I'm afraid. From the fact that every single teacher you encounter makes Trump jokes just expecting everyone to not support him, to the biased literature we constantly have to swallow that decries all right wing theorems and defends leftist ones, to sneaking in feminism, Marxism and relativism into every single course in some way, shape or form to indoctrinate us.

It will also be a high risk that if you write a thesis based on a theory that is less than friendly to current leftist paradigms then achieving a high grade will be far harder despite the quality and veracity of your work. Because your teachers won't like your subject and conclusions drawn. I have also recently experienced professors during lectures be very vocal about all sorts of criticism aimed at say, foundationalist ontologies, the belief that there exists an objective world independent of our knowledge of it, but then maybe quickly mention one singular bit of critique against interpretivism and anti-foundationalist ontology as if that's all there is. They are never subtle about it and at times they even blatantly state that they are biased and doesn't seem to think anything of it.

Kaneki05 · Answer

That's kinda the point? If the education is any good that is. Education is to learn, and question things the way they are. left wings question everything, right wings don't they stay stuck to what they know they like to keep Conservative, Literally why there is conservatives. Lefts don't want to be conservative and that is mostly helped to education systems pushing to question things. But there is bad teachers and bad education where they will find you a bother for asking questions or showing interest and think you should only be able to answer a question not necessarily learn.

Most history lessons for example i have had always been what's your interpretation of this thing in history not Oh you Must think this was Great cause it's part of are history. If it was Right winged Bias it would of been, You must love this leader of are country cause he was connected to this and that. But it's not, It's more of What do you think of this leader personally and make your own views up.

So yup left biased is how good education should be. It's not stating that lessons should teach you to love biden or some shit, It's just lessons should be pushing you to your interpretations of things rather than you must see it only this way Unless if it is maths Then well yeah it can only be answered one way.

ShortCircuit · Answer

I don't think there is a far-left bias in public education (maybe in universities, but that's a different topic). However, public education is managed by the government, so it educates in such a way that is conducive to it's own self-preservation. If it seems as though it has a left-wing bias, that's just because the government happens to be neo-liberal at present. It's not right/left, it's just pro-government.

What if I were to tell you that I intended to send your children to Walmart school? Would you expect the curriculum to not have a pro-Walmart bias? Of course not. If there was a Walmart school, they would make you pledge allegiance to Walmart, line the halls with pictures of every past Walmart CEO, and teach you myths about how the founder of Walmart chopped down a cherry tree and never told a lie. Sound familiar?

888theGreat · Answer

Liberals control Education system, Hollywood, TV, the Media, Professional Sports, Social Media online, Colleges, Music Industry, Corporations and Health Industry. They control half of the churches.

Republicans only control Talk Radio and some of political offices. Republicans might have advantage in Churches but they are losing ground. They have more judges for now.

Still with all that , Democrats don't have control over everything. The American people just don't believe them because they are caught lying all the time. Also caught cheating.

cth96190 · Answer

Hell yes and it is all through Western Civilisation.
The text books, teaching materials and curricula are all Communist indoctrination and most of the teachers are brainwashed libtards or Marxists.
Most of them are too stupid to understand the nature of what they were taught and of the poison that they are putting into the minds of children.
The primary goal of the system is Marxist indoctrination, not education.
Home school if you can.
Get your hands on the curricula, the text books and the course materials and read them, to see for yourself the Marxist lies that are being taught as facts.
FYI I have a degree in secondary education, teaching areas English and history.

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

Well considering that half of proffesors are openly on the left, another 40% are openly marxist, and only 2% are openly conservative, and the third most assigned reading in universities is the communist manifesto, to say that their is a left wing bias is an egregious understatement. They have infected the educational system and did so decades ago, its almost entirely controlled by them at this point.

Agape93 · Answer

Kinda, depends on the state and what those states allow. I mean we have some where what you say is policed to the point of ridiculous, and others where sex education doesn’t need to be based in science or facts.

JackSmy · Answer

NO!! Say it isn't so!! Who would imagine that? LOL!!!

Tamera952 · Answer

I don't believe so, but it is well documented that the more educated one becomes, A) the more 'liberal' & open-minded they become, and B) the less religious people become.
So, maybe? I don't know... Viewed from an ignorant uneducated standpoint, I can see how that perception might exist, but I don't know if it constitutes a "bias".

btbc92 · Answer

Depends on where you go, what class your taking, and who is teaching it. Just know that anything that is not of the Lord is always biased in this world. Because they want to control and manipulate people.

Ranasal_Gansen · Answer

Yeah I had a microbiology professor talk about why Trump is such a terrible president. I was like dude what does this have to do with microbiology? So annoying.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

I don't know how so. You go to college to learn advanced math, science, writing etc and further be educated on your major.

I've never witnessed such pushing liberal agenda when I was in college in the classroom by a professor.

Avicenna · Answer

In my personal experience, even my leftist professors were evenhanded, but I don't assume that applies everywhere.

Anonymous · Answer

Maybe now for 2010s and up. But when I was in school it was very and breezing over topics bland and half truths Now everybody is gay. I don't trust no liberal or conservative school to teach

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

I don't know every education system in the world, but generally speaking its the truth thats being taught, maybe some topics are covered more than others.

LEADFOOTboi · Answer

they says it has to do with colleges ruined the teachers... now they're pushing on our children

lucas262 · Answer

No there have been Marxist educators for nearly 50 years and it shows

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

Compared to popular opinion it has a left wing bias. Compared to the truth it has a right wing bias.

Jack9949 · Answer

Yes. Because teaching is an easy job. And the liberals like things easy in life.

Anonymous · Answer

Very mildly so. In a way that doesn't really challenge the interests of the elites.

lanadelrey25 · Answer

Of course.

KatherineJ · Answer

Absolutely

jimmy2 · Answer

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