HELIX,OR- Although it’s clear to see that every human being has their own beliefs and opinions about certain topics, public school and even private school teachers should stay unbiased throughout their teaching curriculum. Allowing personal feelings in the classroom can cause much confusion and conflict among impressionable students, which isn’t the ideal of an educational environment. Teachers are given the responsibility to teach the students but if personal views on politics and religion come into focus, it takes away the school experience that students should be having for their elementary and high school years.
Teachers are real people with the same amount of freedom of speech as everybody else. Teachers have their own values, beliefs, and point of views. It is a natural feeling to want to talk about ourselves. And of course, teachers are in the same world as their students in which they hear about the same types of things over the news or even on social media most of the time. It’s okay for teachers to express themselves outside of school and in their own environment. However, being a teacher is supposed to be a professional line of work where the teachers teach the specific state-mandated curriculum instead of attempting to influence students’ beliefs. Just because teachers are welcomed to have their own opinions, does not mean that it’s right to inflict them on their students
Teachers have been given the wonderful opportunity to teach subjects that not everyone can talk about to their kids. Spanning from teaching mathematics, history, or english, teachers all have the same goal: to educate the students for their future. America’s educational system was not designed for politics and religion to take over the classrooms. When teachers turn their lessons into personal rants about such topics, it can sometimes unintentionally sway students from what they originally believed or were taught at home by their first teachers: their parents. Again, teachers are here at school to teach, not to wheedle.
Another reason teachers should stay unbiased is because the expression of personal feelings can come with feelings of uneasiness in the students– especially the students who already have their opinions on certain topics. Elementary schoolers and even high schoolers are still forming their own sense of beliefs. For some, being revealed to a teacher’s deep opinions can create an internal conflict especially if those opinions differ from that of the students. School should be a place where students feel comfortable and safe to explore different points of views, not where they’re forced to witness uncomfortable circumstances where the students’ beliefs are threatened. Teachers should be cautious of the emotional effect they can have on students.
Lastly, teachers expressing their own political and religious values can even have long-term effects on a student’s life. The opinions and certain beliefs of people of power, for example, teachers, can certainly form how a student thinks about the world. Teachers could possibly think that they’re not doing any harm by simply stating a few opinions but it could greatly affect a student’s long term mindset.
All things considered, while teachers are welcome to their own opinions like every other human, it’s important that they maintain unbiased opinions in the classroom. Their job is to encourage an environment where students can feel safe to have their own mind of thinking without uneasiness or even confusion. School is a place where parents send their children to learn valuable information for their future– teachers should be leaders of this type of environment, not negative influencers.
Teachers are real people with the same amount of freedom of speech as everybody else. Teachers have their own values, beliefs, and point of views. It is a natural feeling to want to talk about ourselves. And of course, teachers are in the same world as their students in which they hear about the same types of things over the news or even on social media most of the time. It’s okay for teachers to express themselves outside of school and in their own environment. However, being a teacher is supposed to be a professional line of work where the teachers teach the specific state-mandated curriculum instead of attempting to influence students’ beliefs. Just because teachers are welcomed to have their own opinions, does not mean that it’s right to inflict them on their students
Teachers have been given the wonderful opportunity to teach subjects that not everyone can talk about to their kids. Spanning from teaching mathematics, history, or english, teachers all have the same goal: to educate the students for their future. America’s educational system was not designed for politics and religion to take over the classrooms. When teachers turn their lessons into personal rants about such topics, it can sometimes unintentionally sway students from what they originally believed or were taught at home by their first teachers: their parents. Again, teachers are here at school to teach, not to wheedle.
Another reason teachers should stay unbiased is because the expression of personal feelings can come with feelings of uneasiness in the students– especially the students who already have their opinions on certain topics. Elementary schoolers and even high schoolers are still forming their own sense of beliefs. For some, being revealed to a teacher’s deep opinions can create an internal conflict especially if those opinions differ from that of the students. School should be a place where students feel comfortable and safe to explore different points of views, not where they’re forced to witness uncomfortable circumstances where the students’ beliefs are threatened. Teachers should be cautious of the emotional effect they can have on students.
Lastly, teachers expressing their own political and religious values can even have long-term effects on a student’s life. The opinions and certain beliefs of people of power, for example, teachers, can certainly form how a student thinks about the world. Teachers could possibly think that they’re not doing any harm by simply stating a few opinions but it could greatly affect a student’s long term mindset.
All things considered, while teachers are welcome to their own opinions like every other human, it’s important that they maintain unbiased opinions in the classroom. Their job is to encourage an environment where students can feel safe to have their own mind of thinking without uneasiness or even confusion. School is a place where parents send their children to learn valuable information for their future– teachers should be leaders of this type of environment, not negative influencers.
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