Seeing how long this is after I typed it i dont blame yall if you dont read it. I wouldnt. Just felt good to vent.
For most of you this is just a rant. Maybe a few of you have had experience with this before and can relate. But I need to vent. Anyways, my goverment teacher is the most opinionated teacher and overall ahole Ive ever met in my life before. Its not his beliefs I have a problem with at all. Its the way as a school teacher he puts them across. My two examples below are poor examples of how he does this. You'd have to be in the class to get the full effect.
Yesterday (Day 2 of the class), In short he told me that joining the Navy was the easy way out. I asked him when he had served his country. He had no answer. Instead he told the class that joining the military is a waste of time and taxpayers money. I chose to not argue with him because I need this class to graduate.
Today (Day 3), we got on the topic of Collin Powell's war strategy. (Overwelming force and as fast as possible) He started complaining about the number of needless civilian casualties in war. He related it to Hiroshima and Nagisaki thinking no one in his class had any idea about either besides what they read in their history class. He asked my opinion on civilian casualties in war considering I will be in the military soon. I told him that any civilians that are killed in a war is a bad thing. But, if civilians are killed when our soldiers are attacking/bombing a target to shorten the war and save more lives then its acceptable. I then related that back to the end of WWII in Japan. I told him that more civilians had died in the firebombings then they did in either attack on Hiroshima and Nagisaki. These two attacks on Japanese cities was the final blow Japan's leaders needed to surrender and end the war. Both attacks shortened the war and most likely saved thousands if not millions of more lives. He then responded with "That view on civilian deaths in war makes me angry until Im blue in the face." He then stated, "That view will come around and bite you in the butt when your in the military." I had a few choice words for him but refrianed not wanting to fail the class in the second day. He then went on a rant to the class about how better morals should be taught in schools through religion, me being the example. After class walking in the hall I had 4 kids, all about a year younger then me, shake my hand and thank me for serving our country. Ive had adults do this before but never a teenager. They have had this teacher before and said that no matter your opinion in his class you are always wrong. he gets off on proving kids wrong.
There are a few more things that hes said and done that I was angered over. But, this one pissed me off the most. I normally always respect others point of views and political views. But, when your in a teaching position and almost force feed your views on your students I then get angry.
